Roy Romer Quotes

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.

He taught me how to fly on my own and learn the tricks.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

So it's, I think it's quite, quite unique to fly with somebody with so much experience.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.

Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.

I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

My plane is a Premiere; it has very efficient gas turbine engines. It goes very fast on relatively little fuel. Flying has been my passion since I was a kid.