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Reading Rich Bach's book, "THE GIFT OF WINGS".
I had been skydiving for eight years and was tired of just going up and down. I was 26, single, had the time, had the money, so I did it. I've always been interested but never really said "I definitely want to do it. I flew a ton for work for 2 years (3 time 1K with UA). Then my friend's brother flew us from his home airport MMH (Mammoth, CA) to San Diego Montgomery. Then he dropped me off at CLD (that is the airline code, I forget the IATA code) which I flew out of commericially a number of times. I thought that that was the coolest flight of the year out of 100+ commericial. I read a bunch of books, both technical and non-technical fun-stuff. Then my friend, a UA pilot (A320, 777, 767) took me up in a C152. More 'that is cool. I'm doing this.' One day go to SQL (San Carlos, CA) and get a DISCO flight with a CFI ferrying a plane 10 miles to PAO. I wasn't sure where it was all leading but I went for it. Got my license a couple of months ago on 12/17/03 (I say this all the time but I think it will be cool to say for the rest of my life ![]() hours since that date, I started my IFR and after 2 times on the sim I'm already doing oscar patterns (not great but fun). And a further story, one day my CFI and I areclimbing out to a practice area my CFI says, "when you're not flying do you think a lot about flying?" Well I said, "for about 5 weeks I flew with you on a monday, I then flew somewhere with UA on Tuesday, back on Thursday and then up with you on Friday. I'm at airports more than you. of course I think about flying a lot." Gerald Sylvester PPL-ASEL (Instrument student) - total time of approx. 100 hours. UA - Prem. Exec. - over 400,000 flown miles in the 5 years (over 800 hours) |
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