Just watched Top Gun... should I become a pilot?

Are you a college graduate? Do you have perfect color vision? Can you fit in the seat? Are you physically fit? Are you willing to take amphetamines?

>You have to know every part of the jet you're flying down to every last screw
LOL yeah right, Air Force pilots are frat bros who don't know shit about airplanes. Every screw? LOL you'd be lucky if they know what a screw is.

Unironically based. Hanging out with the boys, draining your nuts whenever you feel like it, fashionable, good homemaker, social culture promoting physical fitness and economic success, can live a life entirely free of foids.

Holy shit bros I wish I was gay so bad.

You can ride around on a motorcycle with a qt and play homoerotic volleyball without being a pilot if you wanted to.

It was considered hyper masculine and hetero back when it was released. It only became known as a "gay" movie in the 90's

>Top Gun is gay propaganda

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getting a job like he had is practically impossible these days. fighter pilots are not what they were and are pretty much being phased out by drones and other tech. if you became a pilot, you'd likely be flying a chopper of some kind... maybe an apache if you're lucky, but most likely some troop transport black hawk-type ferrying people in and out of warzones.

We were just too fucking high and fucked up in the 80's to realize how gay it was

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>you have to be top of your class in the air force to become a pilot
Ok but Top Gun was about Navy pilots, they weren't AF

>fighter pilots are not what they were and are pretty much being phased out by drones and other tech
Drones are not built to dogfight other planes

they probably will be eventually

ok? no one dogfights anymore because radar is so advanced and weaponry so precise, your ass would be toasted from 2 miles away.

>2 miles away
sorry, thats retarded. its probably more like 10, 20 or 30 miles away. my mistake.

It doesn't matter, out of the people that want to be pilots, only the best and brightest get to actually fly

Yeah, every pilot was prior military. If you want to you a 747, you better be a Blue Angel.

Tom Cruise is relentlessly handsome

lets be honest, Top Gun was kino

We thought that ever since WW2 and yet they happened in every major war the US engaged in up until 1992. It only stopped because we stopped fighting nations that actually fielded fighter planes

Bangkok Dangerous.

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im not saying that there is no such thing as fighter pilots, im just saying theres almost no need for them to dogfight anymore because they're equipped with weaponry that can destroy its target from miles away. these planes are so god damn fast, it would be impossible/impractical to have them try to shoot at each other with ballistic weapons. its just not their role anymore.

People talk about the Kenny Loggins music but the real kino theme in the movie was Mighty Wings
youtube.com/watch?v=L-4XsDQYDi4

You know what's more advanced than primitive radar? EW.
Iran was able to capture and safely land a US stealth drone that was flying on the border of Afghanistan onto their own airfield. Look at the autopilot in the 737 MAX that directed the plane into the ground. Pilots aren't going anywhere.

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So many dumb posts in here. You don’t have to be military to be a pilot. If you want to fly any type of fighter jet, then yes. You can do anything and still be a pilot, though. You can fly a commercial airline and have no military experience.

nigger, i didn't say they were extinct, i said they were being phased out. and i already pointed out what you're likely to be a pilot of if you try to be one.

It's half amazing half terrible. The drama and romance is all cringe, but those war/plane scenes are fucking top tier. And no better soundtrack has ever been made.

OP's post is about Top Gun, which is about a navy fighter pilot, so the implication is that he wanted to do the same.
but you're correct, anyone can train to be a commercial pilot.

The new Top Gun is going to be even more amazing because of the real plane scenes. There is nothing like flying in a military jet. I got to do it once, thankfully, and it’s an experience that cannot even be put into words

Christ, I was going to call you a faggot, but if you did that, I'm mad jealous.

I did once. About 8 years ago. Amazing. It wasn’t a group flight or anything, but I got about 30 minutes in the air. One of the best experiences of my life.

>youtu.be/neLb4sSO0FU
don't listen to these retards speaking out of their asses

no, rather a volleyball player

okie boomer

Nice, youre in. Mine is porkchop.

>did once. About 8 years ago. Amazing
How does one get to go on a ride along?

You have to earn your callsign. Bangkok Dangerous bangs trannies. What did porkchop do to earn it? BTW, mine is Sex Dad because once I blacked out during high g maneuvers and blurted out "I WANNA FUCK ALL THE WOMEN AND BE A RAD BAD SEX DAD" over the radio

>should I become a pilot?
no, but I can give you a free stress test if you like

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I killed two men with a porkchop.

This is going to sound very pretentious probably...but I wouldn’t know, and don’t think you really can. I was in the military and got pretty sick my 3rd year in and was medically discharged. I had a lot of friends, obviously, that were still in. I kept saying I wanted a flight, thinking it would never happen. Some strings got pulled and when I got better, I was surprised. Like I said, it wasn’t a formation flight or anything. I would still love to somehow get a flight with the Blue Angels, but that will never happen. It would be amazing though.

>We thought that ever since WW2
what ww2 weaponry did fighters have that let them engage from miles away you utter waste of space

Pigeon guided missiles

Ah gotcha. Saw a documentary a few years back and part if it was about Russia letting you fly in a MiG for a fee(50k iirc). Not sure if they are still allowing it but if I somehow become rich I'm doing it.

They might still do that. They have MiGs that go up to like 58,000 feet. I like watching those videos

In the RAF you have to be OFFICER level and of good aristocratic stock to even have a chance of flying solo.

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>OFFICER
Same in the US, Muhammad

You also have to be an officer in the US military. One of the few careers/MOSs where officers aren’t looked at like assholes lol

You obviously never knew anyone who had to work around fighter pilots. The people who fix the planes every day can't stand pilots because pilots are equally arrogant and ignorant. It's a meme that songs get written about for a reason, even fighter pilots know this to be true.
youtu.be/SdSj0_Fd4ds

No, I never worked around them. I was USMC. But we, for the most part, also couldn’t stand most officers. They walked in thinking they knew everything. Maybe you had that same sentiment towards pilots, but I can’t really speak to that. I loved our mechanics though, so I would imagine that pilots also liked theirs?

>getting so defensive he calls someone Muhammad for no reason

cope better next time 56%

>he calls someone Muhammad for no reason
I had a reason. He was british, which is likely to be a guy named Muhammed.

>I would imagine that pilots also liked theirs?
It wasn't mutual

you have to be OFFICER level ie a have bachelors degree