Started flight school

[52weekbreak]

Exciting stuff guys. I almost finished ground school and had about 5 hours flight time before a health issue arose and delayed completion. While sorting that out I retired and he main excuse for buying a plane (business use) disappeared. Lots of nice single engine planes available (CirrusSR22) that you can fly IFR. Without IFR, you can expect to spend a lot of time (often days) waiting for acceptable weather. Don't forget the night rating as you will want to spend as much time as you can on the hill. I felt that if I did not fly at least 10 hours a month my hard earned skills would erode and I just didn't know where I would be flying besides locally and not much point in that. I suggest you fly for fun and not add a schedule and set destination time. Check out a Lake Buccaneer on Controller.com Good luck and have fun!

 

[maxwell]

Exciting stuff guys. I almost finished ground school and had about 5 hours flight time before a health issue arose and delayed completion. While sorting that out I retired and he main excuse for buying a plane (business use) disappeared. Lots of nice single engine planes available (CirrusSR22) that you can fly IFR. Without IFR, you can expect to spend a lot of time (often days) waiting for acceptable weather. Don't forget the night rating as you will want to spend as much time as you can on the hill. I felt that if I did not fly at least 10 hours a month my hard earned skills would erode and I just didn't know where I would be flying besides locally and not much point in that. I suggest you fly for fun and not add a schedule and set destination time. Check out a Lake Buccaneer on Controller.com Good luck and have fun!

sr22 is a beautiful machine. older ones are becoming fairly reasonable too. and they have the parachute.

 

[52weekbreak]

sr22 is a beautiful machine. older ones are becoming fairly reasonable too. and they have the parachute.

They are indeed a cool and check out this lightly used Gen 5 2013 CIRRUS SR22T-G5 Piston Single Aircraft For Sale At Controller.com This was what I had in mind. Now that I am retired, this is what I could afford 1981 CESSNA 152 Piston Single Aircraft For Sale At Controller.com I can't justify either

 

[rotormech]

Man I would kill for a nice 150, but the whole idea of winter,mountains, night ,no thanks....scary,done a fair bit of helicopter time in the mountains in winter with my buddy who is a high time commercial pilot,and it ain't for everyone at least with the chopper you can put her down,fixed wing not so much

 

[Murminator]

my boss owns a share of 10 seat 2 pilot jet with a few other business owners not sure how many. You book it as you need it and by the sounds of it he can get it almost anytime because it is something thats not used all the time share costs shared expenses. Im sure if you looked around there is probably shared smaller planes out there then maybe you could get more bang for your buck

 

[maxwell]

my boss owns a share of 10 seat 2 pilot jet with a few other business owners not sure how many. You book it as you need it and by the sounds of it he can get it almost anytime because it is something thats not used all the time share costs shared expenses. Im sure if you looked around there is probably shared smaller planes out there then maybe you could get more bang for your buck

Ya on most or the aircraft trader sites you can search just by fractional ownership.


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[Snowdin]

This is my current flying contraption. Went down to Tennessee in spring to get training and bring it home. Unfortunately we had such a wet windy summer I only got to fly it once.

 

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[fredw]

Well up today for another hr, felt alot better than first time and not so over wellmed , did the takeoff and lots of circles in the air, took motor to idle and 60 knots, played with rpm and fuel, finished off with landing....

He threw a hint out that I was doing well and said he has let guys go solo after 10 hrs.... Omg .... Still having issues with all the radio and runway confusion talk

going again tomorrow.... Lots of dam homework tonight

 

[rotormech]

It was the same for me keep at it and all of a sudden it will all come together if there is a tower where you are training go ask if you can go up for a hour or two and talk with a controler they could help you our alot

 

[RGM]

Nothing more dangerous than mountain flying in a plane in winter,be carefull boys **** will go bad very fast.

especially newbie pilots. Just getting ready to hanger my plane for the season. Not many good VFR flying days in the winter.

 

[RGM]

I am by no means wealthy, and yes your correct the training is the cheap end, but we have a few of is that want to buy the plane together and we are after a nice 6 seater, we were told 100k... Soon find out

a 6 seater is only really a 3 seater in the mountains. When you need to climb to 12,000 when it 30C outside it ain't going to do it gross.

 

[rotormech]

Density altitude is a killer...

 

[maxwell]

this is fred we are talking about. im sure whatever he buys will be twin turbo supercharged vertical takeoff carbon fiber super machine

 

[j335]

Send me your email, a family member has a Cessna 172 for sale

 

[Murminator]

Well up today for another hr, felt alot better than first time and not so over wellmed , did the takeoff and lots of circles in the air, took motor to idle and 60 knots, played with rpm and fuel, finished off with landing....

He threw a hint out that I was doing well and said he has let guys go solo after 10 hrs.... Omg .... Still having issues with all the radio and runway confusion talk

going again tomorrow.... Lots of dam homework tonight

Well I hope it goes better than truck training and they actually teach you how to fly and not teach you how to pass a test

 

[RGM]

Been thinking of getting zenith 601 kit plane for awhile now anyone done one

Take a look at the Murphy Rebel

 

[fredw]

well finished up flight ground school last night and did my first solo flight in the afternoon... now with 18 hrs of flying... and doing it threw the winter has caused many cancelations, and for ground school... lots of crap I know I will never need, but have to know, now to pass all the exams

 

[rotormech]

Good luck man,I have never been as nervous when I did my flight test ,now I have to go try get current again and almost start over with pstar exam and probably 10-12 hours to get current.

 

[Carrots]

I'm Ready to do my solo any time now, just need to wait to get my radio license in the mail. I took the last month of work off and flew every day, so much easier doing that.