Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Dear Fellow Pilots,











Dear Fellow Pilots,

If you'd like to help us tell this story and continue our quest to create our vision of the finished Book " Be an Aviator Not a Pilot" , you can do so by contributing to this project. Please use the email id this page. We greatly appreciate your support.

Read more about our production on the "Be an Aviator Not a Pilot" Blog.

The story of flight is a sweeping saga that has exceeded the imaginations of even those
who first dreamed it. And yet it unfolds (as all truly special stories do) in moments,
places . . . and people. Always and ever in people.

Just above the heads of most of our brothers, sisters, coworkers, and neighbors there
hang gossamer cathedrals of piled cotton below the cobalt dome of a perfect sky. But
fewer than one in 500 will ever experience this through the front window of a flying
machine. A Be an Aviator Not a Pilot Story seeks out the special few who have answered the call of the skies, those with the discipline, aptitude, and courage to become pilots.

Be an Aviator Not a Pilot in hangars and homes, at restaurants and on ramps,
A Pilot's Story tells the story of flight in the words of pilots themselves. What it means
to fly an airplane all alone for the first time. What it means to fly an airplane for the
last time. The easy rapport one can have with a person who is a complete stranger
but for the shared experience of flying.

And the excitement that consumes pilots at the opportunity to share this world of
aviation with non-pilots, airport communities, community leaders, and anyone else
who will listen.

Be an Aviator Not a Pilot is a book for anyone who has sat all alone in an aircraft, firewalled the throttle, charged down the runway, and rotated. And especially for those who might
if given the chance. For most people, the sky is the limit. For a pilot, the sky is home.

This is the story of the journey home. Be an Aviator Not a Pilot.



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