Any Pilots here?
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Any Pilots here?
My family thinks I have lost my ******* mind. I just contacted a flight instructor, to start training for my pilot’s license. This has been a dream of mine since childhood, but a dream I was never financially able to fulfill. The last 3 years, I have had an above average income, due to my working over seas. I believe it is time to bring this dream to fruition. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
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Go for it! I started taking lessons because I love flying more than just about anything else, and it turned into a career choice. I started training for commercial flight, but there is not much need for commercial pilots right now, so I changed my focus. Hopefully if my plans go as I have them set, I'll be finishing my new training and flying helicopters for an air ambulance service within 2 years.
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Private pilot here since about 2001 but I have not flown in about 3years.
If I can give you some advice...pick someone that you feel comfortable with while flying. Try and stick to this person through the whole training process.
If you make a lot of changes with different people there will be a lot of time lost in the new flight instructor getting acclimated to you and having confidence in you to pilot the aircraft.
Also try and get the training done in a controlled airfield.
Good luck with the training.
Tony
If I can give you some advice...pick someone that you feel comfortable with while flying. Try and stick to this person through the whole training process.
If you make a lot of changes with different people there will be a lot of time lost in the new flight instructor getting acclimated to you and having confidence in you to pilot the aircraft.
Also try and get the training done in a controlled airfield.
Good luck with the training.
Tony
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My family thinks I have lost my ******* mind. I just contacted a flight instructor, to start training for my pilot’s license. This has been a dream of mine since childhood, but a dream I was never financially able to fulfill. The last 3 years, I have had an above average income, due to my working over seas. I believe it is time to bring this dream to fruition. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Private should be easy enough on a weekend based schedule. Then you can start chartering planes to do stupid little cross-country flights. Thats when all the fun starts
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Thanks for all the replies; I am going to start with the new sport pilot license.
I am state side for only 2 weeks at a time, and feel the 40 hours flight training would be hard to pull off in such a brief frame. The sport pilot training requirements are considerably less then those for a private pilot. My intentions are to complete the required 20 hours (including solo), during a 2 week period, flying every day.
I am state side for only 2 weeks at a time, and feel the 40 hours flight training would be hard to pull off in such a brief frame. The sport pilot training requirements are considerably less then those for a private pilot. My intentions are to complete the required 20 hours (including solo), during a 2 week period, flying every day.
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Thanks for all the replies; I am going to start with the new sport pilot license.
I am state side for only 2 weeks at a time, and feel the 40 hours flight training would be hard to pull off in such a brief frame. The sport pilot training requirements are considerably less then those for a private pilot. My intentions are to complete the required 20 hours (including solo), during a 2 week period, flying every day.
I am state side for only 2 weeks at a time, and feel the 40 hours flight training would be hard to pull off in such a brief frame. The sport pilot training requirements are considerably less then those for a private pilot. My intentions are to complete the required 20 hours (including solo), during a 2 week period, flying every day.
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