How many real pilots here? :)

[White Owl]

I'm an Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic with several years experience in General Aviation, from little Cessnas to huge Gulfstreams, although I got out of the aviation industry a few years ago. My first job out of A&P school, I worked for a flight school, and was a student in the same airplanes I was fixing. Finished up there with a Commercial Pilot's certificate with instrument rating, but haven't flown for several years.

I miss it. But I don't miss it quite enough to jump through all the hoops and spend all the money to get current again. So IL-2 is my piloting fix, and some virtual mechanic gets to clean up the mess when I break a plane.

[badfinger]

I have about 650 hours in single and multi engine planes, and about 50 hours in gliders.

binky9

[scissorss]

Not a pilot, but I did serve in the USAF and have had my fair share of hours in some C130's and volunteered for some paid "ejection seat testing"