How many real pilots here? :)

[lbuchele]

I'm a real pilot!
I just don't pilot anything yet besides my beloved Me-109...

[Dash 8]

ATP here. I've been flying a DeHavilland Dash 8 for a regional airline for the past 10 years. I started flying in April of 1990, so coming up on 21 years soon, and have just broken the 10,000 hour mark last month! Still love playing IL2 on my days off and have been since its release in 2001. It has always been the best. Can't wait to get COD soon.

[svanen]

@Dash 8: Congratulations, that is impressive.

I have a PPL (VFR), flying DA40 with G1000.

[Dash 8]

Originally Posted by svanen

@Dash 8: Congratulations, that is impressive.

I have a PPL (VFR), flying DA40 with G1000.

Thanks and congratulations on the Private Certificate. I got my private in 1992 flying a Cessna 152. I wouldn't even know how to use the G1000, the Dash 8 has all 'steam gauges' still, but what can I expect from 1980's technology.

[svanen]

Thanks, the G1000 is really nice and the DA40 is a lovely airplane. Did my training in PA28 with Steam gauges. But one flight in the DA40 and I was hooked.

[jcmonson]

I have my PPL single engine land, and PPL and Instrument Rotorcraft Helicopter; I’m also working on my Commercial Rotorcraft rating.

[Dash 8]

Originally Posted by svanen

Thanks, the G1000 is really nice and the DA40 is a lovely airplane. Did my training in PA28 with Steam gauges. But one flight in the DA40 and I was hooked.

I completed my instrument rating in a Piper Warrior PA28-161. It was my favorite of all the single engine planes I've flown. That DA40 looks fun too. I have flown one in Flight Simulator, but that is a close as I've come to it. I see them all the time in Baltimore doing flight training, nice airplane! I haven't flown a light single engine since 1996. I've flown King Airs, Twin Commanders, a Navajo Chieftian, and lately of course the Dash 8 100 and 300 models. I'd probable over control a small aircraft after being used to the large twins. That's why in IL2 online I almost always exclusivly fly bombers; I'm used to the way they handle.

[IL2Docs]

PPL out of KFRG

[svanen]

As my FI used to say when practicing landing and was a little bit early on the flare. That was nothing compared to when he had captains flying larger jets and they started the flare 30 feet up.

[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.