I took my brother flying but I didn’t tell him I had gotten my pilots license. After 15 minutes of panic and 1,500 off the ground I broke the news and told him I had my pilots license.
Wonderful. My identical twin brother got me once: First time ever up in a small plane for me. We were flying a hawk XP, a 172 with a more powerful engine and constant speed prop. As we went down the run way he held it down way past rotational speed and said “ are you ready to take off” ? Yes, “YOU SURE”? YES! As he led me on and the plane picked up speed. (I wasn’t a pilot yet so had no idea what was going on.). Then suddenly rotated rather forcefully and we went ballistic. Well not quite but it seemed that way. Scared the crap out of me! He smiled at me as we leveled off to a normal climb. “Remember when we went sailing and I was scared and you tipped the boat waaaay over?……………….gotcha back! Ha ha. Oh yes. Brothers. Look out, he’ll get you back! PS. He died at 40 a yr later of cancer. Don’t have my brother but will always have the memories. Love your brother.
I’ll do the same to my husband and my daughter pretty soon:) He doesn’t know that I’m learning to fly the small plane. 7 more months I’ll get my private pilot license. One thing for sure about my husband: he’s a auto mechanic, and I am an automotive engineer. I always wanted to learn how to fly a plane so I’m doing it while my daughter is at school and my husband is at work lol. I love how my pilot instructor teaches me. He’s an excellent instructor with calming manners.
Oh, man! Thats awesome! You must be excellent at keeping a secret and really well organized, as getting your pilots license isn't exactly a small feat that you just go and get on a whim or in a day. Best of luck to you! Hope you enjoy learning to fly and all that comes with the territory!
brother: so is this legal? pilot bro: oh yeah, no problem. brother: have you flown before? pilot bro: nah ...oh, by the way, I am a pilot. surprise. love it.
I have seen a lot of videos like this and I wonder if they are not all fake. Seriously, how do you convince people that you're not a pilot when 99.9% of non-pilots wouldn't even know how to start the plane, let alone how to taxi it. And I would think seeing you go through the preflight, checklists and work the radios, the jig would be up right there. And what about the safety briefing? By FAA regs, you are required to give a safety briefing to all passengers before you go up in the air. That would also seem like a dead give away. And lastly, who in their right mind would get into a plane with someone if they didn't think they were a qualified pilot?
In terms of briefing does it has to be done by pilot in command or could it be done by an instructor beforehand. That's the way I would probably do it. Have an instructor say can you taxi the aircraft for me after the briefing and I will meet you over there for the flight and just pretend you've had some experience taxiing.
@ABQsentinel Mine was simple. My friend was briefed by a real pilot. Everything was explained to him. I then turn on my cameras which to him were described as insurance requirements to be on in the aircraft. The pilot he thought was going to take us up told me I could get the plane started while he had to take a phone call and I would jump in the back and zach would just slide over. All this was being planned over the 6 months it took me to get my license. At the time, I had 2 days in the week off from work and would go to my local airport for instruction. Made a disciplined decision to not tell everyone what I was doing. @glennwatson has the right idea.
everytime i see one of these videos when someone surprises their friends -- i am amaze at how calm and non-chalant the passengers are that their buddy just took them up in the air and is likely going to get them killed.
Just pased my PPL checkride on Saturday. You'll be fine just make sure you study and learn as much as you can with every flight hour. You'll pass no problem!
Recognized that plane almost right away, I have a fair number of hours in 716 out KETB (before they had to move her up to FLD). Congratulations on the fresh new certificate!!
Well this randomly came across my recommendations and thought, why not. Wasn't really paying attention until I heard Fondulac traffic and rwy 36 in the takeoff call, looked up the N number and sure enough. Fondlesac by West Bend Air just south of KOSH. Got my PPL with aviation services in KOSH. Small world. Went to University of North Dakota and went all the way through Commercial, Multiengine, Instrument, added tailwheel and acro for fun. Now I've joined the dark side and fly racing drones. LMK if you want to know more, happy to share! Enjoy the skies!
This is great! Getting my private pilot license was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, I’m starting to use my pilot license to repossess cars and create RU-vid content! 🤘🏻
imagine the pilot just saying "april fools" after saying that he has taken his PPL :D And then he whispers to himself, "So, how do I land this thing? Can't be that hard"
Pretty easy, not telling him he's taking training, many surprise their families and friends this way because is a very individual training, just you and the pilot teaching you, none can accompany you.
FUNNIER...if RED shirted brother (unknown to HIS brother who has a PILOT LICENSE) took controls demonstrating that HE, TOO has HIS pilot's license, AS WELL!
You can get PPL in like 6 weeks from zero time in an accelerated course. Took me just over a year though, and then 2 months for instrument, 2 months for commercial. I’m about to start CFI training
I'm sorry about your brother's disability. Pretty sure regular people who don't know call signs, tail numbers and radio signs yet would just voluntarily get into a plane. Ya good video. *HUGE FUCKING FART NOISE*
I'm waiting for that first video of this type, in which the unknowing and unbriefed passenger freaks out. Then tries to force the 'unlicensed pilot' to stay on the ground by grabbing the yoke or stepping on the 'brakes'.
