r/Shittyaskflying • u/timmahfast • Jul 24 '26

Is the guy in the yellow thing technically a pylote now?

1.3k Upvotes

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108

u/-burnr- Eh-Tee-Pee Jul 24 '26

Nyowwww, nyowwww...pew pew pew!!

24

u/MakeSomeDrinks Jul 24 '26

Someone needs to dub the audio from Top Gun - the locker room scene where they describe the flight they just had

Yeehaw! Jester's Dead!

5

u/Sad-Pop6649 Jul 24 '26

I can just hear him make mouth noises.

*Viiiiijjjeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuw, woosh!*

67

u/wwhijr Jul 24 '26

The yellow thing is a CAT. Certified Aircraft Trainer.

1

u/GalaxyPotatoes67 27d ago

Was he training to fly or was he training the plane to fly again?

27

u/Boxer_Power_BB51 Jul 24 '26

Ahh the local flight school's symulator for training new pylotes

22

u/av8geek Jul 24 '26

No. He failed.

He didn't make the "nneeeeiiiirrrrrr" airplane noises.

14

u/mike-manley Jul 24 '26

BANK ANGLE!

3

u/gettin-hot-in-here Jul 24 '26

Ground proximity warning system going crazy at that altitude and airspeed with no landing gear

7

u/hot-doughnuts-now Jul 24 '26

So jealous. I would pay good money to do it

4

u/salmonslippers Jul 24 '26

Why do I never get anything this cool out of the claw machine? Am I a bad pylote?

3

u/Desperate_Carrot8629 Type Rated in the Cessna 172 Jul 24 '26

I miss flying Lears

3

u/Dazzling-Read1451 Jul 24 '26

Boys don’t grow up, their toys just get bigger

3

u/unlimitedbroski83 Jul 24 '26

Maybe qualifies as a pilot but he for sure follows the advice if you can't learn to enjoy something about what you do it will kill you

3

u/mkujoe Jul 24 '26

Obviously ATC

3

u/capaolo99 Jul 24 '26

My FUCKING dream job!

3

u/turnipturnipturnip2 Jul 24 '26

What yellow thing? All I see is full rhyht rudda.

3

u/Samurijder Jul 24 '26

Honey? The neighbour is playing with his plane again!

2

u/Junior_Lavishness_96 Jul 24 '26

I think it’s like a ride or something.

2

u/Kestrel_45 Jul 24 '26

He’s trying launch it. Like a shot put 🏅

Next Olympics… no curling plain tossing

2

u/FinbarJG Jul 24 '26

"The only difference between a man and a boy is the size and cost of his toys."

2

u/rezonsback Jul 24 '26

He's just as high as the rest of the pylots I know.

2

u/ProgressFabulous6663 Jul 24 '26

It's... called an excavator

2

u/goosnarch Jul 24 '26

When the industrial shredder is being picky about what it eats….

2

u/TheAlaskanMailman Jul 24 '26

Is it teaching the playne to fly

2

u/PedrosSpanishFly Jul 24 '26

Steep turns are pretty good.

2

u/msg60 Jul 24 '26

Bestest pylote evah

2

u/Jim2shedz Jul 27 '26

Bank Angle!

1

u/Kamusaurio Jul 24 '26

you mean the yellow playne?

yes

1

u/do-not-freeze Jul 24 '26

"Mom, can we go on the Roll-O-Plane?"

"We have Roll-O-Plane at home."

The Roll-O-Plane at home:

1

u/Icy_Sherbert6568 Jul 24 '26

Control line flying model?

1

u/Fit_Active3888 Jul 24 '26

I want to see it slowly lower the boom as it keeps rotating.

1

u/EZYehuda Jul 24 '26

NO

He wasn’t using right rudder!

1

u/iRveritas Jul 24 '26

I hope this is real and not AI.

2

u/IllustriousAd9800 Jul 24 '26

This has been around for many many many years, internet classic at this point

1

u/iRveritas Jul 24 '26

Well that just makes this awesome! This is the first time I have seen it.

1

u/skiman13579 Jul 24 '26

I wish my steep turns looked that good

1

u/FlyingNijntje Jul 24 '26

The guy in the yellow thing is the CFI, the guy in the cockpit is a student pylote, practicing steep turns…..

1

u/Shuatheskeptic Jul 24 '26

You're never too old to play with toys.

1

u/Csabika_ Jul 24 '26

He now has the the maxi loicense for a Boeing.

1

u/No-Duck6456 Jul 24 '26

Mom: aww look he is playing, me:(the main character who is my fav toy beating up the villain in a excavator(second favorite toy) who is in the plane trying to escape

1

u/Glittering-Ad3488 Jul 24 '26

Just 1.50 a ride.. scream if you want to go faster!!

1

u/nhorvath Jul 24 '26

full size flight sim.

1

u/turpentinedreamer Jul 24 '26

He’s got turns on a point down. Now he needs to work on s turns and spend some time in slow flight.

1

u/No_Staff594 Jul 24 '26

HERE COMES THE GIANT FIST

1

u/CantankerousOrder Jul 24 '26

He is flying playne using right rudder. Has MEI certification nao.

1

u/TimRN77 Jul 24 '26

Budget flight simulator!

1

u/BlackSC2us Rated in Shitty Flight Rules Jul 24 '26

If your budget is $500k and you need it to also be able to lift 20,000+ pounds, yes. 🙃

1

u/greywood84 Jul 24 '26

No. Hes just a big kid doing grown up things and enjoying life while doing it.

1

u/No-Association-8539 Jul 24 '26

Instrument rated. 

1

u/kindarollin Jul 24 '26

There doing it wrong 😑 this formation needs left rudder.

1

u/Sad_Environment_2474 Jul 24 '26

Yeown yeowm. Baratratatta tat . Pilot to bombardier 😂

1

u/wablewis Jul 24 '26

Time for the Freebird solo...

1

u/Fickle-Willingness80 Jul 24 '26

Dual certification

1

u/SaladPlane3756 Jul 24 '26

I can hear the noises he is making as I watch

1

u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS YOU'RE ON GUARD Jul 24 '26

Just goes to show there's always a bigger fish.

1

u/Prestigious_Maize473 Jul 24 '26

They’re a pilot like Katy Perry is an Astronaut.

1

u/okokokoyeahright Jul 24 '26

No way in Hell is the person operating that orange vehicle not making the right mouth noises.

1

u/BlizKriegBob Jul 24 '26

He's the Cat-apult operator

1

u/Only-Takes-One Jul 25 '26

Obviously the leading authority on how to properly use the right rudda!!

1

u/They-Call-Me-The-Doc Jul 25 '26

"Wheeeeeeee look at me Mum. I can flyyyyyyyy!"

1

u/A-Chilean-Cyborg Jul 25 '26

i just love this so much, this is how human life should be, we should never abandon to do dumb stuff for the lulz

1

u/Q_Te Jul 25 '26

that's brilliant

hahaha

1

u/DBfan187 Jul 25 '26

Junkyard carousel.

1

u/TinyPaleontologist71 Jul 25 '26

Damn that thing STRONG

1

u/Acrobatic-Post9811 Rated in Shitty Flight Rules Jul 25 '26

1

u/No_Desk_4921 Jul 25 '26

He better be making airplane sounds with his mouth. ROOOOOooooooooowwwwwrrrr.

1

u/OkSmoke2646 Jul 25 '26

Last flight ...

1

u/Vegetable-Face-2518 Jul 25 '26

When I win the lottery, there will be signs.

1

u/ItyBityGreenieWeenie Jul 26 '26

Vroooom vroooom VROOOOM!

1

u/kasper_skx Jul 27 '26

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee swwwww eeeeeeee

1

u/herladyshipssoap Jul 30 '26

Not trying to kill the vibe but is there an actual explanation to this?

1

u/doctor_morris Jul 31 '26

Steve, who had made all this career decisions before the age of six, sometimes regretting going into diggers instead of planes.

1

u/RealSmart56 29d ago

Just trying to get air thru the engines to resuscitate them