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you want to know what passion is?
quitting your high paying job, getting a miserly pay just enough to survive but feeling happy about it.
loving to fly an aircraft is passion, understood.
now let’s see, you love flying. you sign on but you spend your days planning things, doings WITS projects, clocking USMS, doing ground runs, doing air checks, doing duty. you barely make it for your monthly flying hours… and you try to push for more flying because if u don’t hit those hours, you have no extra money.
then you have to clock currency, you have to go for course, you sit in the stupid hot and cramped cockpit with the lousy cushions, you fly the same old circuit everyday. you fly the same circuit so that u can clock flying hours.
you love to fly, but damn its CAT1. you look at the sky, doesn’t look like its CAT1, so you can’t fly.
your boss arrows u to do a job, you kena scolded by boss, your friend asks u to take over duty.
the weather is so hot, you’re arrowed to do a ground run. you have to start the aircraft for 15mins and there’s no air conditioning, what’s more you don’t clock flying hours.
now, please don’t tell me its a passion just because you’re from SYFC and you love to play military games and you like to go to the bloody airshow to see f-16s break the sound barrier.
its a joke to see all this online when i can see the real thing at my workplace.
all come out, black face, finish flying, tired… all looking forward to finishing their bond and going to SIA.
It’s scary to think about everything now, since there’s just so much to read up on and so much to think through. Not like this. Pilot or not, I just wanna do my best at giving whatever opportunity I have the best shot I’ve got.
It’s just strange that I feel as though I’ve a higher calling to answer to.
Too nervous and yet too excited for Wednesday at the same time.
