Were pilots really treated like super stars back in the 1960s like shown in Catch Me If You Can?

Were pilots really treated like super stars back in the 1960s like shown in Catch Me If You Can?

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Yeah, people used to get dressed up to fly as well. Sky waitresses still swoon over them.

Aren't they still to this day?

Air travel wasn't as common/cheap as the modern day.

Wasn't the guy this was based on turned out to have basically made most of it up anyway?

You gotta get real deep in debt for the training. Money's probably not as a good as it used to be either.

Not like super stars, but most pilots seem to be (at least somewhat) attractive, healthy tall men with sharp looking suits and a big of an ego. That is inherently attractive.

He lied to become a pilot, but if you mean if he made shit up while retelling his story, its possible but i would assume somebody would've double checked with the airport staff to make sure he was truthful.

I wish I could go back to the days where air travel was financially out of reach for black people

>get paid ultra-high salaries for sitting in a machine that mostly flies itself

Pilot seems like a smart job choice. Get paid for doing fuck all.

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That's a dead trope. These days the vast majority of pilots are on-the-spectrum manlets

>t. Ramp wagie

They live like that now, they’re drunk all the fucking time and make six figures

As a result, it's become really competitive. And all the junior pilots just got laid off due huge reduction in demand. Pretty rough.

They paid for their skills when it's no longer flying itself. Pretty much every industry you get paid based on your skills and supply/demand of them, not how hard you work.

I don't know man, on the rare occasions I do see pilots, they all seem to look pretty good, especially the younger ones. Maybe it's just positive discrimination and my brain is just filtering out the uggos and manlets.

Gone are the days of the suave ex-Vietnam fighter pilot captain. It's mostly old fat boomers with a shy, dorky, 28 year old first officer

>attractive, healthy tall men with sharp looking suits and a big of an ego
And they are around 55YO grumpy old men flying until they retire.

>Ramp wagie

How do you even get a job like that, and what do you do all day

Fuel planes mostly

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I remember those days.

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why do indians love this movie? also why do they love dicaprio so much?

Yes, depending on the airline and the types of hauls they do.
International pilot for a respected airline > domestic pilot for Budget Air.

shut the fuck up you dirty faggot, or im gonna slit your throat.

>why do indians love this movie?
They aspire to become great scammers themselves.

There was some thing that came out a year or so ago that he was in jail for most the time these events took place, so surprisingly the guy the guy that lied about being a pilot, doctor, lawyer also lied about lying

Uhm sweety, that's against regulations.

As you can see with plane crashes, literally fighting the autopilot and other errors can cause you almost assured death. They're being paid for agreeing to fly the death machine every time.

India runs entirely on faking it until you make it.

unless you learn to fly in the military, its expensive as shit to learn to fly anything bigger than a single engine puddle jumper. Helicopter school was ~700k all said and done when I looked at it a few years ago.

a million things can go wrong. pilots are paid for the possibility they might be able to do something about it.

>Are we gonna make it?

Yeah, a million thing "can" go wrong, but they never do. Flying with the plane is the safest way to travel.

>most pilots seem to be (at least somewhat) attractive, healthy tall men with sharp looking suits and a big of an ego
you don't see many pilots do you?

dicaprio is the prototypical indian male