- My biggest job dream: Eurofighter pilot
- 22 May 2021 03:42:13 pm
- Last edited by DAVID-19 on 24 May 2021 12:52:27 pm; edited 2 times in total
When I was a little kid, I was always excited about flying.
I already knew that my favorite job had to have something to do with flying.
Then I got older and realized that only combat flying was really exciting.
You can fly many manovers with a fighter plane that no other plane can fly otherwise.
Often you are traveling at insane speed.
In my opinion, the job of a fighter pilot is one of the last aviation professions in which you are physically and mentally very challenged and you need a lot of courage.
In addition, you are a soldier and so live together with camerads.
You also have to deal with the fact that you sometimes have to kill other people or could be killed yourself (but I can handle such a state of mind very well).
Fighter pilot became my dream job.
I read a lot about fighter jets and got to know many aspects of fighter aviation.
The fact that I found out that there is a lot of complicated technology in a fighter plane that the pilot needs to understand didn't deter me at all, I was even more fascinated.
Since I live in Germany and feel very attached to this country, I was interested in later becoming a pilot in the German air force. Specifically a pilot of the Eurofighter aircraft.
Eurofighter 2000 Typhoon
I was fascinated by this aircraft that I had often seen live.
I applied everything I knew about fighter planes to the Eurofighter and learned about the data and specifics of the many aspects of the aircraft (or rather the weapon system) Eurofighter.
I realized that I would have to learn a lot in training to become a Eurofighter pilot.
So far I've only learned tiny parts. But I really love learning (especially about technology) and would love to take on this challenge.
So at the moment I am mainly trying to be good at school. It works! My enthusiasm for the job is there. My ability to learn fast about technology is there too (very important in training!). My intelligence and situational awareness are okay.
But for this job you have to be almost perfect physically.
As an adult, I will most likely have the appropriate body measurements and weight.
Athletic fitness is not a problem. I'm slim and athletic enough and have trained myself quite a few things. The heart, lungs and circulatory system are all running well. Tumors and blood clots are also unlikely. But my eyes are very bad. I have up to -4 diopters. But even with that I would still have a small chance (I would have to be particularly good at the other things in order to be allowed to fly with it).
But then comes what destroys me: My eyes also have another unknown disease:
I see colored in one eye. I also see tiny wisps of fog that make everything too small appear indistinct. And with physical exertion or heat, I see like this in both eyes. Sometimes it hurts too.
I've lived with it for four and a half years. Maybe it's because my father hit me particularly hard on the head back then. There is a close temporal relationship.
In these years I went to the ophthalmologist too seldom (my parents are to blame for that).
And when I went to the ophthalmologist, I never talked about the stroke and you could never diagnose anything. But now I have finally been brought into safety by my parents and will soon go to the ophthalmologist, where I will finally tell about the stroke.
It's probably incurable anyway because it hasn't been treated for too long.
In any case, I know that with this disability I cannot become an Eurofighter pilot.
There's no way I can bypass the medical tests. And even if I did, I would know it could be fatal or I could be discovered. Pointless.
I am very sad about my eyes. It messes up my life and I wonder how I deserve it.
What should I do, I'm desperate. I am so infatuated with this dream job because I have almost never told anyone about it (because of my situation with my parents) and always had my point of view. But it's really great!
I already knew that my favorite job had to have something to do with flying.
Then I got older and realized that only combat flying was really exciting.
You can fly many manovers with a fighter plane that no other plane can fly otherwise.
Often you are traveling at insane speed.
In my opinion, the job of a fighter pilot is one of the last aviation professions in which you are physically and mentally very challenged and you need a lot of courage.
In addition, you are a soldier and so live together with camerads.
You also have to deal with the fact that you sometimes have to kill other people or could be killed yourself (but I can handle such a state of mind very well).
Fighter pilot became my dream job.
I read a lot about fighter jets and got to know many aspects of fighter aviation.
The fact that I found out that there is a lot of complicated technology in a fighter plane that the pilot needs to understand didn't deter me at all, I was even more fascinated.
Since I live in Germany and feel very attached to this country, I was interested in later becoming a pilot in the German air force. Specifically a pilot of the Eurofighter aircraft.
Eurofighter 2000 Typhoon
I was fascinated by this aircraft that I had often seen live.
I applied everything I knew about fighter planes to the Eurofighter and learned about the data and specifics of the many aspects of the aircraft (or rather the weapon system) Eurofighter.
I realized that I would have to learn a lot in training to become a Eurofighter pilot.
So far I've only learned tiny parts. But I really love learning (especially about technology) and would love to take on this challenge.
So at the moment I am mainly trying to be good at school. It works! My enthusiasm for the job is there. My ability to learn fast about technology is there too (very important in training!). My intelligence and situational awareness are okay.
But for this job you have to be almost perfect physically.
As an adult, I will most likely have the appropriate body measurements and weight.
Athletic fitness is not a problem. I'm slim and athletic enough and have trained myself quite a few things. The heart, lungs and circulatory system are all running well. Tumors and blood clots are also unlikely. But my eyes are very bad. I have up to -4 diopters. But even with that I would still have a small chance (I would have to be particularly good at the other things in order to be allowed to fly with it).
But then comes what destroys me: My eyes also have another unknown disease:
I see colored in one eye. I also see tiny wisps of fog that make everything too small appear indistinct. And with physical exertion or heat, I see like this in both eyes. Sometimes it hurts too.
I've lived with it for four and a half years. Maybe it's because my father hit me particularly hard on the head back then. There is a close temporal relationship.
In these years I went to the ophthalmologist too seldom (my parents are to blame for that).
And when I went to the ophthalmologist, I never talked about the stroke and you could never diagnose anything. But now I have finally been brought into safety by my parents and will soon go to the ophthalmologist, where I will finally tell about the stroke.
It's probably incurable anyway because it hasn't been treated for too long.
In any case, I know that with this disability I cannot become an Eurofighter pilot.
There's no way I can bypass the medical tests. And even if I did, I would know it could be fatal or I could be discovered. Pointless.
I am very sad about my eyes. It messes up my life and I wonder how I deserve it.
What should I do, I'm desperate. I am so infatuated with this dream job because I have almost never told anyone about it (because of my situation with my parents) and always had my point of view. But it's really great!