What finally prompted you to take flying lessons?

"Morgans"
I know a guy who's big into RC, and from his knowledge of aerodynamics
and
manuevers, I would agree that the flying part is probably about the
same.
Maybe even more liberal in RC since you can do some relatively scary
maneuvers with severely less risk.

But I suspect the view is a little better when you're inside the
cockpit,
and your gut is twisting with the G's...

Most that fly both will tell you that RC is harder. Perspective and
feedback issues.
--
I'd agree. And more demanding in terms of eyesight and reflexes

"Judah" wrote in message
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I know a guy who's big into RC, and from his knowledge of aerodynamics and
manuevers, I would agree that the flying part is probably about the same.
Maybe even more liberal in RC since you can do some relatively scary
maneuvers with severely less risk.

But I suspect the view is a little better when you're inside the cockpit,
and your gut is twisting with the G's...

View is better if don't get motion sickness - I do - but that has little to
do with 'the view'. In RC I went from hi powered pattern planes, to slow
backyard, tail dragging novelty planes, to gliders which is where I stayed
..... Then did the same thing full scale - C150, C172, SGS 2-22 glider, 2-33,
and then owned a couple of hi performance glass gliders - now back to slow,
backyard, tail dragging, utility stuff (i.e. Maule)

Interestingly, I get the same kick out of greasing on an RC model as I get 3
pointing the Maule. Landings are landings and both modes give me the same
satisfaction.

My boss took me flying. Then my wife went to Girl Scout camp for 6
weeks and I needed something to do while she was away.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.



EDR wrote in message ...
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.

Gene, you marry them young, eh?

"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
om...
My boss took me flying. Then my wife went to Girl Scout camp for 6
weeks and I needed something to do while she was away.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.



EDR wrote in message
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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 was looking for a way to cut the travel time to Tennessee. My family lives
there, and there was a lady I was enamored of at the time who taught at the
University.

My father died shortly after I bought my 150. He never saw it. Maria is now
living somewhere around DC.

But I have the certificate and I have a plane and I have a wife. And every few
years I still fly to Tennessee.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

"EDR" wrote in message
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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.

1) Model Airplanes in High School '70-74
2) Flight Simulator (I think it was SubLogic and/or eventually MSFS) '80-'83
3) A ride in the right seat of my brother's boss's company plane, a Baron
IIRC '84
4) PPL '84

Cheers,
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

Having a love of airplanes as long as I could remember.

From there, having a high school teacher who was a former WASP (Womens Air
Service Pilots) who was teaching a class in the school called "Aeronautics",
essentially the full FAA Ground School. She provided a $5 Demo Flight at
Arapahoe Airport (now Centennial - APA) when Arapahoe was a single 4000 foot
backtop runway.

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mayfi...yfieldBio.html

After discharge from the military, my income tripled, and there was no
looking back.

Of course, $12 for a 150, $14 for a 172 and $5 for the instructor made a big
difference.

EDR wrote:
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 turned 42 and realized that I had the disposable income available
thanks to my websites, and since the kids were fairly well grown I had
the time.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino

"Cartoons with a Touch of Magic"
http://www.wizardofdraws.com
http://www.cartoonclipart.com

A 15 minute ride in an old radial engined airplane on Cape Cod on my 16th
birthday back in 1990. I loved every single second of it. A contributing
factor was one of my best friends getting his ticket. With lots of
part-time jobs, I was able to start lessons three years later, and by 20,
was a private pilot.

"Wizard of Draws" wrote in message
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EDR wrote:
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 turned 42 and realized that I had the disposable income available
thanks to my websites, and since the kids were fairly well grown I had
the time.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino

"Cartoons with a Touch of Magic"
http://www.wizardofdraws.com
http://www.cartoonclipart.com

"Brad Z" wrote in message news:VnhXb.307548

A 15 minute ride in an old radial engined airplane on Cape Cod on my 16th
birthday back in 1990. I loved every single second of it.

Excellent! The bright yellow one, right? That aircraft is a 1931 Stinson
Detroiter, with a Lycoming engine. Owned (when I flew her) by PBA.
Affectionately known by all who flew her then as Willie. A real wooden
steering wheel (yes, not a yoke), leather seats, and crank-down windows,
just like in your car. A marvelous plane, and great fun, although by the
time you've finished your 30th trip around Ptown on a hot August day, it's
Miller Time. I've got several hundred hours in Willie, and wouldn't trade
one of them.

Willie was purchased some years ago by a former PBA pilot (current shuttle
pilot, I think -- who owns the BOS-NYC shuttle these days?) and moved to the
Marstons Mills airport. As of a few years ago, she was back in Ptown, back
doing the sightseeing flights. I'm not sure of the exact chronology. I
think it is coming up on about forty years that that craft has been gracing
the skies of the outer Cape.

Thanks for the memories.