"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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d&tm writes:

Thats crap. How much does a car cost in France?

Somewhat less than the price of a PPL.

I think there is more than a handful of people who own cars.

It depends on the area. In Paris, only about 20% of the population even
has a
license, much less a car.

I have read of a kid in Australia who is using his paperound money
to learn to fly.

How does he pay for rent, groceries, insurance, utilities, taxes, and the
rest?

I cant believe that anybody in
a Western Country like France could not learn to fly if they really had
the
passion.

I suppose nothing is out of reach, if someone is "passionate" enough to,
say,
sell a kidney. But the reality is that the price is so high that only the
most fanatic potential pilots are willing to sacrifice everything else in
order to get that license. But maybe that's the way other pilots want
it--in
order to have a more exclusive club.

The medicals are not that demanding.

I hope your next one goes well.

I would be surprised if more than 5% of the population up to 50 years
of age could not get a private medical.

The average age of pilots in the U.S. is around 47. I'd guess that about
25%
of them could not pass the medical exam.

then how could they still be pilots and even so 75% is hardly exclusive as
you make out.


Nobody who really wanted to fly would have a time excuse. They
would make time.

Yes, they could kill their spouse and children in order to free up more
time,
and sell their own blood to raise money.

I think you have a very distorted understanding of how much time and money
it takes. I like many "weekend warriors" have a PPL and fly about 50 hours
per year. Hardly a huge time committment. I am also married with 2 kids and
have a responsible job as an industrial chemist, hardly the most highly paid
occupation. And no my kids dont suffer as a result of me spending 50 hours
away flying. In fact I think I set them a good example to go out and chase
their dreams instead of being like most people who waste their lives making
excuses for all the things they wanted to do.

There are many ways to make money, if you have the right attitude. I am no
expert on France but you supposedly came from the USA, the land of
opportunity where anyone can get rich. Not that you have to be especially
rich to fly a single engine plane. To fly 50 hours per year , it cost me
about $5000 US. Why did you move to France if you have to live such a
miserable existance there?

Just how much do you expect people to sacrifice in order to fly?

I dont expect anything of other people. I just think you are making pretty
lame excuses for not getting off your butt and having a go. you are trying
to justify that lame attitude by telling us how difficult it is.

Having said that, and reading between the lines and many
of your other posts and your website, your health is obviously an
issue,
and I am sincerely sorry for you that is the case.

Everything is an issue for me: money, time, health, lots of things.

Defeatist attitude. Why not just spill your guts and tell us what the
issues are and see if we cant actually help you. The fact that you can read
and write , you can obviously walk and talk ( I know about your Paris tour
guiding) says to me you could get in an airplane with an instructor and have
a go.


But even so there are ways that you can still take the controls of a
real
aeroplane if you so desire.

It's easier to fly a simulator. And simulators get better all the time.

Of course it is easier, but then nothing much that is worth doing in this
world is easy. When you are lying on your death bed will you look back with
any sense of achievement that you "flew" a simulator?



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