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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'