He’s a Highly trained pilot. He’s rated for IFR VFR and multi engine and rated for one of the 700s class. I forget the exact model. But how many rock starts fly their own planes to gigs.
Good thing he’s not like Dave M from megadeath that plane be doing cartwheels down the runway on landing.
Unthought the benefits of having a pilots license it becomes a stress reduction therapy.
For the pilot by himself. Not when your flying a cirrius sr 22t and you have a weight limit and three of the three passengers lie about their weight and it puts you into a bad flying condition because in essence your doing a wheelie in the air and your nose is to high and slows the plane down and she doesn’t want fly that way.
But under proper weight loads by your self very peaceful.
Do you fly? Because although I enjoyed it, I am not sure I would call it peaceful, especially in a busy cockpit.
Flying require an incredible amount of focus, and just getting to a license takes pretty damn extreme focus. Nothing I have ever done has challenged me like getting my private ticket.
As far as your SR-22 reference..l mean, who flies anywhere near the useful load or max weight? That’s just stupid. And if you plan to anyway, every FBO that I have flown through had a scale in the office. But it’s not like someone can lie about being 100lbs lighter than they are. Most small aircraft are, well, small. Designed for 5’8”, 175lb pilots. At least that’s pretty much how everything I have flown feels.
Bruce is ATP, which means pretty much every aspect of licensing is accomplished first. I have seen videos of him in a 747 simulator and there’s a whole documentary about “Ed Force One” which was a 757 iirc.
Oh, and Steve Morse is also an ATP/commercial pilot. He used to fly his band around and has been licensed since he was very young; maybe 21? He also quit rock and roll for a while to work for an airline.He owns several planes. He is mostly into small planes, has a Cirrus SR-22 and has been a member of the EAA since 1984. There’s an article somewhere about him flying to Airventure in the late ‘70s, camping under his airplane.
Steve is also maybe the most accomplished guitar player that exists. So although his style isn’t always my favorite, he definitely deserves to be in this thread.
He is also an incredibly humble and all around nice guy. Watch his interview with Rick Beato on youtube.
If you don’t get chills in the first five minutes, you don’t love guitar and/or you are dead inside.
