In the Navy and the FAA we call the F-16's LAWN DARTS! Thats what they become when that single engine flames out and wont restart. They dont give the guard units the latest and greatest, they get jets that would have been decomissioned in any other full time unit. They were New in 1976. Even the F-14 Tomcats which were commissioned in 1974 the navy was smart enough to get rid of them because they were so old and easily replaced by the Super Hornet.
Dont mean to scare you all, but ask a fellow technician (FAA) in my office how it was to have a pilot license. Last year he was a passenger and the pilot landed long at some podunk airport in southern Indiana and the plane went into a creek bed and now he is paralyzed from waste down for the rest of his life (in a wheel chair), broke his back in multiple places not mention his face and teeth. He will never be a technician again and the FAA is deciding whether they will find him another position that he can do OR Terminate his employment. It went from the joy of having his license to now...this mess.
The odds just arent with you in a plane crash. Happens more often that you think. From puddle jumpers to commercial to military aircraft. I still havent been able to get a straight answer as to how many FAA technicians have died that take a small plane or helicopter to a remote site in Alaska (on the job). Not something they advertise.
Yeah sure it would be fun, but to me, it just isnt worth the cost for the license, plane/maintenance/fuel and my life. If my truck breaks down I can just pull over and fix it when I get the parts!
So many errors in this post. Any one with a little Google fu can prove all of your statements false. I an not going to because I do not want to drift this thread nay more than it already has.