| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/23/2008 6:50:36 PM | | Thank you, Designing Woman for your comfort. That really helped me because I just recently broke up with this jerk of a nutcase and it still hurts. I doubt he hurts at all being that he has no heart, but I do. | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/23/2008 7:17:57 PM |
Please note, a lot of pilots would never, never list their occupation on a singles site because of THE GROUPIES. You know who you are!!!!!
We have groupies? Yep. Unfortunatley.
2 types here..
SNAGs (Student Naval Aviator Groupies) that go after the 22-25 year old student pilots. They try to latch on to the academy types mostly, as a lot of them are "women stupid" from being sequestered away from the real world for 4
years.
NAGs (Naval Aviator Groupies). They tend to go after the older winged aviators. Tend to be older and looking for a man to take care of their kids.
Not all women are SNAG/NAG here, but there are a lot of women who seem to have "SNA/NA" as a requirement to date.
That being said, the groupies don't like me. I married one back when I was an SNA and am "wise" to them now via an expensive "education"  | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/23/2008 7:31:55 PM | I dated a pilot. It was fun to fly united.
He was much older and much arrogant. I can remember him saying that I would NEVA know everything that he knew And yet I said yes to his proposal.
But I got away I got away. | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/23/2008 8:00:22 PM | Pilots are a different type of personality that most people likly never meet. Some would say they are crazy types that do things and travel in dangerous medium. The pilot is a highly technical and fast thinking and reacting person totally under control in most situations. Their life depends on it, at least in their minds.
Suppose it is misconstrued that one would look aloof to non aviation people. They can also feel more important than other people with the sort of attention they get from the greater population.
Not everyone is perfect and pilots like to feel in control. Controling and aloof men might turn off the majority of women. Once you can cut through that layer you might be able to reach a near normal person.
Always be safe when dating. | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/23/2008 9:35:55 PM | | I was a flight attendant for a couple years. Like any occupation there are people who are genuine and nice and others who are arrogant. While I was working, I've seen both. Many of them were flirts and you heard all kinds of stories. But I met a lot of great pilots and somedays I miss my job terribly. It was a lot of fun! (at the same time though if you were stuck with an arrogant pilot, those trips sucked! But they were few and far between!) | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/24/2008 12:51:35 PM | Personally, if the woman can't deal with the way a person acts, move on.
If she can't deal with his proffesion? Move on.
Pilots (most of em) have wanted to fly since childhood.
It is for personal gratiification.
And no, not all are arrogant, that is a broad generalisation,
So yeah  | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/24/2008 9:54:56 PM | NoMexShrek:
Re: Groupies, etc.
Sorry you went through this nasty, stupid divorce scene. There are trophy wives and trophy husbands. You were the later. Only a narcistic personality would enjoy that crap. There's nothing to support a healthy relationship when the rose petals fall to the ground.
The 2nd to last man who tried to make me a trophy wife was told that "he was useless to me because he couldn't handle a chain saw; besides, living in Harbor Towers penthouse [on the ocean in Boston big $$$$$] would give me claustrophobia."
The most recent one, elderly and a former F15-JAG, etc. was even crazier. Both Federal attys. Who can make this stuff up, right?
In the end, we really can't lie to ourselves or each other and have peace of mind, now can we? | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 6/25/2008 4:36:32 AM | When pilots have schedules with overnights they have opportunity and time.
They oftentimes create that close knit relationship with the flight crew and spend ample amounts of time in the bar socializing and killing time.
Now the combination evolves into opportunity, time and alcohol.
Connect the dots. | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 7/14/2008 2:56:12 AM | I have had the good fortune to meet a woman airline pilot and wish it could have worked out... but she had other priorities. She was very smart and beautiful too... the guys used to say 'Barbie is flying the plane...' - and she was a self made pilot, starting out in general aviation and taking all the training herself, without the benefit of assistance from the government. I still think of her often.
alas
Jerry
Maui | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 9/4/2008 3:10:22 PM | My stepdad's family are all pilots. In fact they all have cliffhanger haircuts. They all talk like Donnald Trump and Christmas with them is hostile, because they're all in charge of their planes, so they try to be in charge of the family too.
Now that is just his family, but there are 8 pilots in the family, he is even a pilot, but that's not his full time job. Oddly enough, they all married petite blondes.
One of them, my step dad's cousin is really open about how he has a woman in every city. His wife knows it too, she's not happy with it, but she deals with it, cause he makes six figures a year. | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 9/4/2008 3:20:01 PM | I guess i must be a different type of pilot. I do not have a plane, so i am not in charge of it.
I do not make 6 figures a year. If i did, would i be on a free dating site?
And i doubt i will marry a petite blond. At this point, i would probably be happy with a big blonde.  | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 9/4/2008 3:22:53 PM | | The one that makes six figures a year is a trans oceanic pilot going from Chicago, NY, Florida to London. He told me last Christmas he is writing a book called, "Jet-Set Pilot Playboy." At least his wife and kids found out from him instead of the book. | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 9/4/2008 3:39:14 PM | Airline Pilots are a dying breed, it doesn't hold the grandeur that it used to, now they are just over paid bus drivers. We had three pilots apply for Firefighting positions this year. They have no more game than any other profession. JMO | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 9/4/2008 4:02:03 PM | Pilots,
I have many pilot aquaintances and friends and have dated two female airline pilots. Comair and delta.
In my experience airline pilots are (in general) arrogent and****. And have little or no concept of fidelity. The women are worse than the men.
Basically the pilots will sleep with any poor fool who is enamored by the pilot mistique.
The women pilots I know both many times commented that they held 50+ lives in their hands. True but so do school bus drivers for minimum wage!
I am a private pilot and also build airplanes. I have had no less than 3 airline pilots in my planes and have found them barely competant to incompetant.
I do want to emphasise this is just my personal experience I'm sure there are many pilots who have both ethics and flying skill but given a choice I would avoid them. Both mail and female. | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 9/5/2008 8:48:21 AM | Wow holding 50+ lives in their hands does sound a little arrogant.
I should bring up that phrase at my next Christmas with my stepdad's family. I'll get to hear things like well I flew 200+ people while you flew 200+ boxes and crates! | |
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| I have a question regarding Airline Pilots and dating
Posted: 9/5/2008 9:25:04 AM | | airline pilots are just glorified bus drivers. there's nothing more boring than flying a plane that basically flies itself. it is the most amount of money that you can get for the least amount of work. that's probably why some pilots are arrogant. however i have had lots of pilot buddies and some of them are still flying the heavies, or retired. overall, they are very cool and straightforward, fun people in my experience. however, most of these guys are old school and learned contour flying while dodging NVA bullets. i wouldn't be surprised if a larger number of the more modern crop of ATPs really just get off on wearing the gold stripeys on their jacket. | |
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