Professional pilots who ride moto

Just a bug-smasher here, but I’ll follow along to see the responses 

Sorry but I'm far too aloof and quiet to respond to such a thread.😁

I used to fly A-4s/T-45s then I flew 737s doing mostly domestic high altitude chem trail delivery until recently. Now I’m riding my Husky more. I ride PaxTrax, Orlando MX and MotoBros here in Florida. I was sad to see Canyon MX shutdown in PHX. I used to fly out to AZ and ride in the OTMX international vet race there each year. 

Way to bring in the tinfoil hatters into this thread 😂…

In the past I’ve flown Citations and Hawkers. Right now I’m in a Lear 45, and we have a Praetor coming Q4  

In CA I’ve ridden Glen Helen, Cahuilla Creek, and Fox raceway  

Here at home it’s Possum Hollow, Gas MX and 4 states  

I don’t consider myself a “professional” as I only hold a private with a little over 300 hours but I fly a R44 if that counts haha. 

I’m envious and admire all you pro flyboys, been a longtime aviation fan and, in the spring of 1981 I flew the Concorde (at the Navy’s expense, long story….) from JFK to LHR (1340 mph, 57,000 feet, the world is indeed round !) Anyway, just wanted to share and yeah, I’ll brazenly brag about it until I pass on….

Sweet!

Nice!!!

My Pops flew FJs for the Marines in the Checkerboard Squadron.

I can't contribute directly as I'm not a pilot myself - but on the same topic I did meet a fellow MX racer on an off-road ride I did out west about 10-12 years ago who was a pilot for Southwest.

He was a pretty good rider and I think he was probably a top guy in his area in the 70's/80's... But what I thought was really cool was that he was attending all of the Nationals that year- and getting paid to do it !!

Apparently he had enough seniority (or however the system works) that he could put in a request for whatever route that put him at the airport closest to any National. He would fly to that city on Friday, attend the National on Saturday, and get a flight out of that city on Sunday / Monday.

It sounded pretty awesome to me and I was a bit jealous that he got paid to do it and I'd either be driving thousands of miles or spending thousands of dollars to do the same thing!

That’s cool. The Concorde was something else. 

51,000 ft is the highest I’ve been, and I only did it once. The 45 is certified for that, but it’s not at all practical. Had to be very light ( no passengers and very close to our min landing fuel) to do it. 

It feels like the air molecules are about 12 ft apart up there!

In 05 I was flying contract for another company on a trip to DC the weekend of Bud’s Creek. 

I was probably the only spectator getting paid to be there !

Not a professional but I did get 2 flights in an F16 while I was stationed at Nellis and I know there was at least one active F15 pilot who I ran into from time to time when they still had Tuesday and Thursday night "Beat the Heat" open practices at the Las Vegas Motorspeedway that rode.

My cousin is a pilot- hard to do anything with him because he is so slow and meticulous. When we would snowmobile together it would take him forever in the parking lot to get his helmet on, gloves on, check over his snowmobile, adjust the grip warmers, zip up his jacket, check fuel, track tension, etc. 

He is who I want flying me around…

Checking  on the frequency. No more MX for me, a lot of mtb, e-mtb and off-road on. My 450 XCFW here in Southwest Florida. Got back into racing again after 15 years did my first Florida Trail Riders HS a month ago, was a blast. I ride trails and sandy double tracks on the border of the Glades, been to Croom for a weekend of sand whoops (there’s actually an awesome Airbnb in an old Chinnook, where we stayed at Croom, for a moto-avgeek weekend. 

After some bush flying in my youth in Africa, some instructing and Part 91 Citation flying in FL, 4-5 years flying a ERJ175, I joined a biz jet ops and fly a white Citation. 
 

Absolutely, your cousin exemplifies how a professional pilot conducts themselves! How does that old saying go? "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots; however there are very few old bold pilots!"

Joe

Not a pilot, but I spent a year as door gunner on UH-60 Blackhawks in Iraq. I almost went warrant officer to be a helicopter pilot, but decided to stick with the electrical field and became 12P Prime Power. I miss flying in helicopters though. 

Not a pilot but I read once that only fighter pilots make more decisions per second in as many degrees of freedom than mx racers do.

Airbus A350 Captain based out of Atlanta for a major airline. Been into moto since I was 10 (just turned 50). I don’t ride anymore mainly out of fear of getting a concussion (and losing my medical). So I’ve built 2 HRC works bikes (2016 Honda CRF450RW and 2022 Honda CRF450RW) to feed my moto addiction! 😂

I retired in March of ‘24, but I flew flight engineer on the 727, then right seat for a short time, then 737, 777, 787, and back to the 777. I used to ride MX and HS, but after my back surgery a few years ago, I don’t have the leg strength or balance to ride. I miss it every day. The highest I got was 43,000ft and that was only because we were ferrying an empty 777 back to Houston from Chicago. 

My best friend is a 777 captain, rides mostly road bikes but is now taking up off roading after watching me race enduro.   Know of a few others into it too, hopefully all meeting up in Portugal for a week's riding soon.   

I flew floatplanes for years and then was a Dash 8 captain at a regional for a few years. Now I’m a FO on a 787. Live and ride in Canada. I don't really ride mx much anymore but I do race harescrambles. 

I went riding in Dubai last winter on a layover with another one of my crew. That was pretty an awesome experience. I’m always looking at the MXGP calendar and trying to figure out a way to make it work on a layover. There’s a few guys I fly with who ride. 

GA guy here. Own and fly a PA-28 and am building an RV-10. Might go CFI 'for fun', as I already fly right seat a lot (over 100 hours right seat non-CFI). My wife is currently getting her PPL also, which is cool. 

We both ride moto mainly at Cahuilla, also Pala, Perris, etc. 

Also love splashing around in a flying boat (this pic was from ASES lessons in Florida) and will probably get one of these at some point also. 

Fair winds. 

Right seat 737 at a "major" airline.  Gave up riding Motocross due to getting older (38) and not wanting to add on to my hospital visit resume and risk losing my medical and livelihood.  (I've done my tib/fib, femur, pelvis, collar bone and more ribs than I can remember along with a few concussions).

Luckily the PNW offers a lot of world class single track and I've been loving it.  Signed up for Silver Kings hard enduro in a couple weeks.

Navy Super Hornet guy, grew up in the socal moto and off-road scene.