Do you have an aviation soulmate?

I tricked Margy into going flying with me years before we were married. Her third flight was Oshkosh. After Oshkosh, you couldn't keep her away from aviation. She got her pilot certificate the next year and we bought the Navion the year after that. Eventually, we did get married.
 
Sadly, no, not for powered flight. Most of the pilots I know (my partners included) treat it like the family car, only faster. The closest I got in a general feel good way was the first couple Gastons I attended, there were some very enthusiastic pilots who loved giving rides and helping new pilots. Some of them are still here, many have left the site.

As for a communal group celebrating the joy of flight, nothing so far beats going to the hang gliding mountain. Those people are fired up and just love to fly, talk about flying, and just hanging out. Many who free fly barely have enough money to scrape together to get lessons and buy a $2k used glider. Many of these people will never have the cash necessary to fly a spam can, and the pure joy and celebration they experience is off the charts. THESE people are soulmates.
 
EdFred said:
That would be the sausage fest of all sausage fests. 17:1 male:female pilot ratio.
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&$$ You don't have to be lonely at altitude....$$&&& At Pilots only dot come$$#&&&

Ground based folks just dont get it....
 
I dated a girl that loved that I was a pilot and wanted to become one herself. Unfortunately, we didn't work out.

She actually got her first flight via some of the guys on here at Gastons.
 
I dated two student pilots. One soloed, but never got her ticket. She later became a preacher. The other was and still is a school teacher. She got all the way to commercial. Not sure if she's still flying or not. I know she'll never make it in the commercial world.
 
PrincessPilotNJ said:
I am not sure who you are talking to, but I clearly stated "he" several times. By looking at my photo, it is clear that I am a woman. One does not have to be in a sexual relationship to be "Aviation Soulmates." They could be the same or opposite gender. It is just two people that think alike reguarding aviation. An intellectual connection.
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Oh...just an "intellectual connection"?.....heck I've had dozens of those....and many more imaginary ones too. :D
 
pilotmeet.com - a place to meet pilots.
and if you're only interested in meeting other male pilots...
pilotmeat.com
 
Wow, I was all about to go off on a lengthy 6PC-ish diatribe on circular and rectangular aviation relationships (notice I didn't say triangular, that would just be weird) then I read "I neither know or care about this monkey you speak of..."
Care? Seriously? You mean, you won't even meet the monkey? Do you realize how many careers have been terminated, lives have been jeopardized, positions have been compromised, drugs have been run and lies have been told to transport our little plastic friend to his present location, destined to become the first coast to coast general aviation relay of an animal figurine?

This is like history in the making. I HAVE MET THREE PEOPLE IN THE COURSE OF.... okay, no. Two. And no, they aren't soul mates. Actually I don't have any soul mates. I try to claim soul mate status sometimes, like early morning at the gym and late night at the bar (you know, when alcohol is in effect) but it's a facade. (By the way, interesting side note, but I've recently learn 'facade' is pronounced 'fa-saaad', and not 'fa-cade.')
 
Sac Arrow said:
Wow, I was all about to go off on a lengthy 6PC-ish diatribe on circular and rectangular aviation relationships (notice I didn't say triangular, that would just be weird) then I read "I neither know or care about this monkey you speak of..."
Care? Seriously? You mean, you won't even meet the monkey? Do you realize how many careers have been terminated, lives have been jeopardized, positions have been compromised, drugs have been run and lies have been told to transport our little plastic friend to his present location, destined to become the first coast to coast general aviation relay of an animal figurine?

This is like history in the making. I HAVE MET THREE PEOPLE IN THE COURSE OF.... okay, no. Two. And no, they aren't soul mates. Actually I don't have any soul mates. I try to claim soul mate status sometimes, like early morning at the gym and late night at the bar (you know, when alcohol is in effect) but it's a facade. (By the way, interesting side note, but I've recently learn 'facade' is pronounced 'fa-saaad', and not 'fa-cade.')
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The monkey was my aviation soul mate.
 
Is a soul required in order to have a soulmate?
 
PrincessPilotNJ said:
News flash: Inanimate objects don't have souls. Let's come back to reality shall we?
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For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.

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Clark1961 said:
Is a soul required in order to have a soulmate?
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If not a soul, at least a sole... of some kind.

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The way I fly sometimes I might have a bowlmate - as they quickly exit the plane on landing and look for the first sign of porcelain.
 
Currently no,have had several in the past.people move,times change ,priorities change.
 
Bill Jennings said:
the pure joy and celebration they experience is off the charts. THESE people are soulmates.
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For instance, I went hang gliding one fine day last October, and in a five minute span, me and 5 other people got off the mountain together and flew. After landing in the LZ, we all talked, had fun while packing up the gliders, loaded up, and then drove to the top again to fly. We all got four flights, had a great time, and after, we all hung out in the LZ, drank a few beers and had a great time. About 50/50 women/men, and the age range was 18ish to mid-50's, and we all had a fantastic day.

In general, flying GA aircraft is not social, free flight (HG and PG people) is very social.
 
I've decided that good weather is my aviation soul mate. At home, the weather sucks. I'm on travel in Memphis and it's gorgeous.
 
Not really. None of my family flies and I don't fly all that often. But I'm young and have time...

Work with the local IAC chapter but I don't actually fly competition, so that makes it tough to relate.


EDIT: I assume the OP meant people we've met in-person. If not, Sean Tucker is probably closest. His joy and infectious enthusiasm about the art and motion of flying is something I constantly relate to. Too many pilots think of flying as just a mode of transportation.
 
Not so much, but my wife (then girlfriend) was swooned by my wings. That's never happened before, as most people gloss over when they learn that I have a pilot certificate.

Chicks dig pilots? Nah, not in the last 40 years or so.
 
I just find'em, fly'em, and forget'em.
 
denverpilot said:
I just use Guard. Always someone to talk to there... ;)
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I've actually had some great conversation on 22.75. I know we shouldn't, but it always starts with good intentions. Starts out with overhearing somebody doing something cool and me wanting in on it!
 
mkosmo said:
I've actually had some great conversation on 22.75. I know we shouldn't, but it always starts with good intentions. Starts out with overhearing somebody doing something cool and me wanting in on it!
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If I know it's going to be a really long boring cruise, I've taken the ham radio gear along before. Everyone wants to work an "aeronautical mobile"... LOL... I've got some QSL cards from airline guys who fiddle with their HF gear and move over to the ham bands and play...

The QSLs I've received from pilots, are usually pre-printed with color pictures of one of their fleet airplanes, and the "aeronautical mobile" stuff, so they do it enough they had cards printed up... most seem to be international charter cargo carrier, judging by the card photos... and quite a few aren't U.S. based.

And back when dad was alive, we'd take the 182 up with SSB gear on VHF/UHF contest/event/sprint days once in a while. The funnest was during the Colorado 14er Event.

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He'd operate, I'd have an earbud on a y-cable inside my headset to listen to him operating (helped if I had put the aircraft in an orientation that was blocking the antennas in the baggage compartment to know which direction he was working) and I'd fly.

The crack-up of that event every year (I love those guys) are the Kansas guys who'd man Mt. Sunflower, the "highest spot in Kansas" and work the Colorado 14ers... they got a kick out of us being up in the airplane and we'd remind people (because we could hear them easily anywhere we went in the airplane) that they were "over there to the east... make sure you point your antennas that way!"...

Before dad passed we joked about doing another 14er event with the airplane and actually flying over to Mt. Sunflower and back, to wag the wings at the crazy Kansans who had bothered to go up there and work the Colorado hikers on the 14ers... but we never did it. One minor regret of mine. I still have the user waypoint in Foreflight for Mt. Sunflower that was put in there as prep work for that...
 
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