Flight Simulator Quotes

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.

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

For many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world, we've been studying fly behaviors in little flight simulators. You can tether a fly to a little stick. You can measure the aerodynamic forces it's creating. You can let the fly play a little video game by letting it fly around in a visual display.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.