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There is a similar story sort of goes like this: Sorry its a little long
A guy was bouncing around the traffic pattern in his Piper Cub with only a handheld radio as he had no electrical system, he was maybe doing 70 knots. He hears a Cessna 150 call, entering downwind and the Cub pilot thinks to himself: "Gee, one day I will get to fly a airplane fast like a Cessna 150, electrical system and all".
The pilot in the Cessna 150 hears a Cessna 172 radio in for a traffic pattern check and he looks out and ponders, "One day I will be able to fly a four seater like that 172".
While the 172 driver is checking for traffic, he sees a Cessna 182 fly overhead, not in the traffic pattern but really cruising along. The 172 pilot whistles and says, "It will be me in that six cylinder with all that power one day".
The Cessna 182 is monitoring approach control and hears a Twin engine Baron check in on the frequency. He listens in and thinks, "Gee one day, I too will be able to fly two engines and go really far and fast"
The Twin Baron is cruising along at 10,000 and has just been cleared to contact Center, as he tunes up the frequency, he hears a KingAir 350 report being level at Flight Level 250 and maintaining 280 knots. The Baron pilot looks up and thinks, "Wow, someday I will be able to cruise in the flight levels, get out of all the turbulence and go fast too".
The King Air pilot is told to watch for traffic, its a Citation 560 at Flight Level 310 and doing Mach .72 and from the King Air guys view is out a sight in a flash. He looks down at all his extra engine controls (power/prop/condition lever) and says: "one day I will fly high and fast like those Citations and only have just power levers, life would be good".
The Citation pilots are cleared to a higher altitude but are have a restricted climb due to passing traffic. They are told to watch for a Southwest 737NG passing overhead climbing to FL390 doing M.80. The left seater pokes the right seater and says: "one day I will get hired by SW and then I will be passing by all these slow Cessnas", One day!"
The SW flight levels at FL390 and they are told to report crossing traffic, its a Gulfstream 550 at FL 490 same direction but doing M .88 Both pilots watch as the Gulfstream leaves them in the dust high above their paltry 39,000 altitude. The right seater looks over and says: "I would love to fly a 550, so high and fast, go fancy places".
The Gulfstream cruising at FL490 is told to watch for military traffic, climbing through their altitude. Its two F18's in hot pursuit to their training area. The Gulfstream pilots can't see the F18's, too fast and too high but report them on TCAS. The captain looks up and says, "Wow, fast, sexy, what could be better than that?. One day that might be me!"
The F18 pilots are late, so the extra speed. They had to restrict their climb due to passing traffic. It was the Air Force again and better than that it was a SR71. Wing man calls over to his lead: "Hey, don't you wish you could go that fast? Talks about cool". I should have joined the Air Force, that could have been me!"
The SR71 is finally level at 85,000 feet and Mach 3.2. Life is good. The pilot looks down and the world goes on forever, he looks up into the beginning blackness of space. In a brief moment, he thinks I am the fastest guy up here but then... he realizes that the astronauts in the ISS are supposed to pass overhead this afternoon. "Darn, at 17,000 mph and 220 miles overhead... now that is flying. I wish I was an astronaut!"
High overhead the ISS passes above. Peering out the window at the ground below, the astronaut checks all the instruments one more time. As he looked out again, he motions to the guy next to him. " I can't wait to get back home, really looking forward to flying my Piper Cub, smashing some bugs and getting the wind in my face"
The life of the pilot
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