RE: Mascot/pilot choice ?!?!?!?
To put a very SEMI-SERIOUS answer here. Your pilot is only limited to your imagination. I have found several pilots in the local dollar stores. A cheap doll and a saw do the job. Any stuffed toy of an appropriate size. Pictures of a loved or hated one in the wallet size or so mounted on apiece of lite ply. You just take a picture to one of the Kodak machines and have the appropriate size reprints made. Cheap toys also make cool pilots. Just let your imagination run wild.
Mark Shuman