Mom, I want to be a pilot
When I was younger, I thought being a pilot would be the coolest thing. No, i didn’t want to be running companies nor getting an MBA and all that. I wanted to fly. Period. By the time I was 10 years old, I was obsessed, or obsessed a 10 year old can get. I used to buy magazines with aircraft pictures on them, used to spend time at the library(!) looking for books on the subject of flying and was generally a fanatic on the subject. So much so that I got together with a friend to work on designing a micro light aircraft by the time I was 14 ..
Well, that didn’t fly too far 
, but at 16 I went to the Bombay Flying Club to go and check out what it took to learn to fly. They mentioned that flight training was full time and that didn’t bode too well for my college education, so I resolved to take a crack at it later.
Did college, got a couple of degrees and yet the flying bug refused to let go. I finally joined the Bombay Flying Club .. which had 1 aircraft, 1 instructor and around a dozen students – as you guessed, not a very conducive environment to learn. I guess in 3 months, I flew twice and spent the rest of the time on the ground – not too cool. I focussed on other things and kept working on my companies.. then PG happened, then Wharton happened and I still wanted to fly.
I joined up a flight school here in Philadelphia in my last quarter at Wharton and started flight training. Yesterday I took these pictures on my return flight from Cape May to Philadelphia .. and I gotta tell ya .. waiting 18 years .. its been worth it. Its everything I dreamt of ..and more. Oh yeah .. I told my mom, that I am almost a pilot …
BTW, the PG HQ intends to fully utilize my services as and when they can .. <grin>
So, what did you tell your mom you were going to be?
Awesome!!! Thank God you tuned your skiils in US otherwise I would have not believed your Indian pilot license anyday! :mg:
Oh good heavens, you took your hands off the steering wheel to take pictures!! Hey Bhagwaan… kuch ho jaata toh!!
wow the scenery is beautiful. now i too wanna learn how to fly. you join Bombay flying club as an instructor and teach us
Cheers,
Deepu.
:O and it sure was quick learning…:mg:
When do we get to fly with our personal pilot?
reminds me of the song … I believe I can fly ;P I think its time we all join and get gyan! I want to learn and fly too …
SO U FINALLY DID WHAT U HAD WANTED 2 DO ALL THESE YEARS…………
COOL!!!!
THAT WAS GREAT
BUT YEAH THAT POINT ABT TAKING PICS WITH FREE HANDS!!!
I WISH I CUD DO WOT I WANT TO……….
ALL CANT………
CUZ GOIN 4 D UNCERTAIN NEEDS LOTS OF GUTS
congrats……… doing what u want….. indeed needs guts……
That sounded liberating!
Well written. Have you read Richard Bach? He obsesses about flying.. am sure you love him to death.
WOW….nice to know u realised your dream… ur childhood obsession reminds me of my bro’s when he was a kid… but his obsession changed when he grew up. Although, flying is sure an experience, how was it the first time around? I’m sure you would have a story on that.
Hmm I told my mom..[at different times]..I want to be a Singer…Dancer..Computer engineer…Wild life researcher…IFS officer….social worker….writer and finally I am now going to be a Manager….aah even that’s not certain…
You reminded of my dream!!!!
Just like you am ascertained to be a pilot one day for sure
umm i wanna fly to i have wierd dreams which i know i will fulfill.
good going allwin agnel
kudos 2 u and ur team
hey it really feels very nice to see ur dream getting realised……ur story makes me feel more determined to acheive my own dream…
How it feels when your biggest dream is realised
congrats
I see me in you…. I too have a ‘keeda’ of being a pilot! par pops says… ‘rahega to driver hi na!!!!!!!’ ek din… main dikha dunga…. ke PAPA pilot is not a DRIVER!!! filhaal… a manager… planning for a MBA with GMAT750 in the CV
this was sumthing great….
to be sure of hitting the target….
shoot first
and watever u hit
call it d target….
think different and be different….
dats wat u’ve been….
congratulations to u for ur success
take care..
congrats… achived beyond expectation … wishing you to gofar your personnal aircraft soon.
kool ya..u inspired me 2 achieve ma dream …
i wana b peripatetic…travelling whole world..each city,villages to smallest town..and xplore..
thanks