Anyone a pilot?

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Airline pilots are often pilots

i very much like the way air traffic controllers talk sometimes.

here is a clip that i like and one of the controllers is obviously lighting a cigarette with his lighter, and they are both seemingly in their 50's but i like to hear them speak. this is from an australian airport.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWtdtuspnoM&feature=related[/youtube]

I hold an Airline Transport Pilot Licence (graduated from university last year) but I don't have a pilot job yet.
Aviation IS my passion.

Same here, except I'm going to wait a while for the money and wait until I'm off of my ADHD meds.

I have a glider pilot licence, gliding is my special interest, I think. I never had any problems with flying, it's just great. Especially in the Alps, gliding in areas where the mountains are 2500m - 3500 m is just absolutely fantastic. When I was younger I wanted to become an airline pilot, but after I started gliding I realized that flying planes that have an engine is just way to boring for me. So I'm just concentrating on gliding now, I want to get better in cross-country-flying. My personal best in a single seater is 300 km, in a double seater (with experienced co-pilot) I think about 600 km. But I have my licence since last august (I'm 17 now), so this is my first year as a licenced pilot and not as a student.

@Ford_Prefect:
300 km in your first year with licence isn't quite bad, right?
And if you don't mind telling me, in what region do you fly? Mountains, flat land or something else?

I was obsessed with aviation and considered becoming a professional pilot. The recruiter for the aviation technical school said that unless your vision (without glasses) is perfect, you will never be hired as an airline pilot. Maybe you could be a bush pilot somewhere and work for yourself.

I have done a lot of hang gliding, including a couple of flights at 3000 feet above the landing area. If I had the money and time, I probably would have eventually got an ultralight and flown it for fun.

In Europe pilots can wear glasses, acutally some of my flight instructors and class mates wear them.
And I know many airline pilots who wear glasses too. You should check the JAA regulations.

I'm not sure about the airlines (I guess it depends on the airline), but corrective lenses are fine for flying, as long as they give you 20/20 (FAR 67.103). Plus airlines typically fly IFR, which relies more on the instruments than what is going on outside the plane

I am glad to hear it. I should have mentioned that I was told that many years ago. I did not confirm his statement.