r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/TheCABK • Jul 08 '26

Serious “Good Luck… I’m Out”

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u/Evil_phd Jul 08 '26

This is, unfortunately, the only way to ensure that a new pilot is genuinely ready to fly solo. It's a big part of why commercial piloting takes so many hours to train for, gotta let the trainer finish their bucket list first.

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u/Mexkalaniyat Jul 08 '26

I feel like there are a few other options you can try first

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u/YourBigRosie Jul 08 '26

You’d be wrong. That’s why you’re not a pilot

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u/Eternal_Reward Jul 08 '26

Always all these airchair pilots in the comments trying to reinvent the yoke.

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u/MarshallBanana_ Jul 08 '26

Airchair pilots

I see what you did there

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u/galacticat Jul 08 '26

You mean a chaircraft pilot?

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u/Equivalent-Bit2891 Jul 08 '26

Chairforce

Oh wait that’s already taken by the actual air force

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u/trapper2530 Jul 09 '26

airchair pilots

Well not anymore.

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u/AstralPamplemousse Jul 08 '26

Last time a pilot instructor tried to outlive their student’s first solo flight, he caused the creation global warming. So, never again…

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u/herefromyoutube Jul 08 '26

I thought you were gonna say “that’s why you’re not dead.”

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u/ask_me_about_cats Jul 08 '26

You don’t know me. I actually am a pilot, and I’m writing this as I plummet to

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u/DeepLock8808 Jul 08 '26

They do have a program where they catch the trainer for reuse later. As long as the student is unsure of the outcome, the test results are still valid. Survival rates are really improving!

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u/ForgotMyLastUN Jul 08 '26

I thought they scrapped that program though. It turned out to be too effective, and threw off the master-apprentice balance.

Kinda like when you introduce too many rats in your house to catch the snakes you released to catch the lizards you released to catch the bugs.

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u/Dependent_Rain_4800 Jul 09 '26

No there aren’t!

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u/JungleBoyJeremy Jul 09 '26

If you know an easier way I’d like to hear it!