Fun Flying

[callsign222]

Flying is fun.



If you watched this, and you think, "boy I've always wanted to learn to fly" then you should march your ass down to your local airport and start taking lessons. It's not too late. You don't need 20/20 vision. You don't need to be a millionaire. You don't need a degree in engineering, rocket science, or molecular physics. I have heard all these stories of people putting off their dream until later in life or sadder still-- too late in life.

It's not for everyone. Not everyone can do it-- for better or worse. But if you dream it and you want it you owe it to those who can't do it, and yourself, to do it.

Flying = Fun

Disclaimer: I don't know the above guy, but I sure like watching his videos! Some other cool ones including a poignant one called "65 horses re-issue thanksgiving" about a bereaved widow selling her husband's airplane. Awesome.

[callsign222]

We all makes our choices and pays our monies and takes our chances. Just don't let lame excuses get in the way of doing something awesome. (anything awesome, doesn't have to be the above)



200hrs is a lot for a hobbyist who would want to cruise around on a nice evening in a slow and simple aircraft. There are many factors, it is difficult to put a hourly amount on it.

[MiddleAgesMan]

I had a license when I was much younger and we joined the Gulfstream flying club so we had access to their nice Grumman Tiger. It was a very inexpensive way to fly a small plane.

I quit flying when my instructor killed himself and a friend with a tank of bad gas. This wasn't very long after he made two critical errors on a late evening flight with me--a navigation error and then an error on takeoff. That was actually the last time I flew at the controls and I wouldn't dream of getting my license up to date 'cause I'm now at the age he was then.

[Tylerdurden]

My only advice would be to find an instructor that isn't depending on you for a paycheck. One wants and honest evaulation of their natural abiltys. Too many get signed off by instructors who are only building time and gloss over deficinecys. When I was instructing I had a couple of students i told to leave it alone go to the local instructor farm and stuggle through only waiting to kill themselves and others down the road. Just as some people have no bussiness driving the same can be said about flying. If you come apart under great stress don't even think about it.

[Paul Pless]

My only advice would be to find an instructor that isn't depending on you for a paycheck.

Where do I find an instructor that teaches this kind of flying?

[GregH]

Started watching, but had to stop. After 34 years, several thousand hours, and 5 planes (3 homebuilt) I had a seizure - while taxing out for takeoff- my wife was able to shut the engine down and radio for help. FAA took away my medical, haven't flown since. I dearly miss it.

[Tylerdurden]

Where do I find an instructor that teaches this kind of flying?

Any local crop dusters? I was lucky enough to be surrounded by WW2 pilots. Not many of that breed around anymore.

[Shang]

By the time I was ninteen I knew that I needed to fly. So I skipped seven hundred lunches and put the money into flying lessons at Baker's Flight Service at Kansas City's old Municiple Airport. Loved every minute--even the scary ones.

[callsign222]

I definitely cut a lot of grass and cleaned a lot of toilets. Lived in my car for a bit too. That was a dreamy summer. No girls, but lots of adventure.