Pilot License Quotes

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

The only way to get around Arizona is by small private plane.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.

I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.

I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France.

Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.

The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.

I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.