Cheerleader thread?

but can they stop the pigeon?

And poker is a sport.

Taping my sex life on the camcorder makes me a porn star.

I guess I'm a real pilot too. I got damned good at Microsoft Flight Simulator, and I've flown radio control model airplanes, too, just like the drone "pilots" do.

/If your ass isn't physically in the aircraft, you ain't a pilot, you're an "operator".

I used to make killer paper airplanes

I would assume that they need to have a very similar skill set, and as far as I know the 'real' pilots are hardly ever directly flying their aircraft anymore either.

In the evenings, I'm a dark elf rogue that slaughters dragons.

Penn and Teller actually make a good case (new window) for cheerleaders being athletes. (May not be SFW).

Basically, one of the big reasons cheerleading isn't classified as a sport is because the company that owns a monopoly on cheerleading equipment, training, and competitions would lose a lot of money if it was classified as a sport.

Why do we need pilots at this point?

And the farkers in the Politics tab are politicians.

"I'm a pilot."

/obligatory

I used to to flight testing at Pax River, it's harder to fly a drone than a traditional aircraft.

It's also harder to hit a target with a paintball gun.

How do you have a pilot for a pilotless aircraft?

I bought a self-published book not long ago. It was kind of fun. Isn't an author who doesn't have a publisher the same as a musician who doesn't have a record contract? That would still be a musician.

I can't refute the cheerleader analogy though.

dstanley: As a retired Air Force veteran, the flight suits really piss me off.

I know a fair amount of people in the Air Force because my best friend has been in for years, and that's a pretty common complaint. Actually, it may be the only complaint.

Still, I'd rather have drones than more planes that put pilots at actual risk.

dstanley: As a retired Air Force veteran, the flight suits really piss me off.

This...and the Nomex gloves. You think they all have badass call signs?

/23 months
//23 months
///23 months till retirement

Knowing how to spell "dammit" makes me an English professor.

Funny, I can't find the block on my airline pilot application to write in my drone hours.

It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.

The drone pilots should have ejector seats just like the real pilots. Drone pilot ejects and his head gets cracked against the ceiling at 60 mph.

He's like "Fark you, I'm not ejecting"

Molavian: Why do we need pilots at this point?

Because, uhhhhhh, the pilots, uhhhhhh, are the only ones, uhhhhhh, who, uhhhhhh, can give you an update, uhhhhhh, on the, uhhhhhh, weather in a timely, uhhhhhh, fashion. And they, uhhhhhh, have great, uhhhhhh, voice personalities.

Egoy3k: I would assume that they need to have a very similar skill set, and as far as I know the 'real' pilots are hardly ever directly flying their aircraft anymore either.

A drone operator rarely has to pull 9 Gs...unless the bolts on his chair break.

dstanley: As a retired Air Force veteran, the flight suits really piss me off.

I winced when I read that part of the article.

/not a pilot

gshepnyc: I bought a self-published book not long ago. It was kind of fun. Isn't an author who doesn't have a publisher the same as a musician who doesn't have a record contract?

I have to tell you, with Amazon's "self-publish on the Kindle program" or whatever they have - I've found a lot of pretty good books for cheap. Nothing amazing so far, but quite a bit of the self-published stuff is entertaining, and it's not $14.99 a book. J.A. Konrath has been dumping pretty much everything he's ever written even if his publisher wouldn't touch it. And the Donovan Creed books are just stupid fun, and at $0.99 the price is about right. It would be atrocious as a published book, but you let a lot of things slide for self-publishers.

I was really good at the Flight Sim in Excel so I am an Excel expert and an ace pilot.

well the first two sound right...

Disposable Rob: It's funny, the whole pilot culture of the Air Force won't let them do what the Army does and just let the enlisted guys with a few months training fly drones. So I meet more and more guys coming out of the Academy pissed that they are likely to be flying a drone.

It's why I left the Air Force after the Academy. Not the drone thing, but the wasteful mindset that is left over from the intra pentagon turf wars.

Oh no, they can't use fixed wing aircraft, they are taking our jerbs!

Prank Call of Cthulhu: It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.

It's an entirely different kind of flying.

But at least a drone pilot has to actually be certified as opposed to a self-published writer who can flush that shiat into the blogosphere.

smedrick: Egoy3k: I would assume that they need to have a very similar skill set, and as far as I know the 'real' pilots are hardly ever directly flying their aircraft anymore either.

A drone operator rarely has to pull 9 Gs...unless the bolts on his chair break.

Not passing out under G loads isn't really a skill is it? Also I only claimed that the skill sets a similar not identical.

dittybopper: I guess I'm a real pilot too. I got damned good at Microsoft Flight Simulator, and I've flown radio control model airplanes, too, just like the drone "pilots" do.

/If your ass isn't physically in the aircraft, you ain't a pilot, you're an "operator".

and if ya crash you just hit restart, like in a real plane right?

gshepnyc: I bought a self-published book not long ago. It was kind of fun. Isn't an author who doesn't have a publisher the same as a musician who doesn't have a record contract? That would still be a musician.

I can't refute the cheerleader analogy though.

Because the publishing houses have been so awesome in picking out great writers that are able to sell books!

/same with the music industry
//that was sarcasm btw

Call them what they are... "Remote Vehicle Operators" Anything else is blasphemy to real pilots...

Amirite FlyNAVY?

/Retired Navy Ship Pilot

TravisBickle62: I used to make killer paper airplanes

I still do. I spent a *LOT* of my youth making paper airplanes. I make a standard dart shape, but I cut a small vertical tail, and I turn down the wing tips. I also cut elevons so that I can 'tune' the glide. If I'm launching inside, I go for lowest sink/slowest flight. When outside, I go for higher speed/best glide ratio.

Teknowaffle: I have a friend who is a drone pilot. He estimates that his actions have killed about 30 or so people. He is proud of it, like it is a video game.

He's only 20 kills away from:

The United States Chair Force.

denyall: Prank Call of Cthulhu: It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.

It's an entirely different kind of flying.
It's an entirely different kind of flying.

bungle_jr: denyall: Prank Call of Cthulhu: It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.

It's an entirely different kind of flying.
It's an entirely different kind of flying.

Well yes, but it's an entirely different kid of flying.