The First Thousand Hours

Congrats on the big 1000 hour milestone!... just a thought, but have
you ever thought maybe about now pursuing getting a CFI ticket to help
pass on your flying knowledge and experience to others on a casual
basis?

Now that I've finally passed the 500 hour mark myself, the oldtimer
CFIs around my airport have been pestering me on to get my commercial,
instrument and CFI tickets. The two main ones are getting old in years
and intend to let their medicals lapse someday to do the sport pilot
thing for the remainder of their flying days. I don't know if I have
the "right stuff" to be a CFI or not, and have no real desire or time
to become a regular primary instructor, but could probably handle the
occasional student such as the children of fellow private pilots who've
actually been already flying all their lives with their dads but just
need to get that "official" on-paper training for their checkrides when
they reach their 17th birthday, and to perform BFRs for my fellow
pilots, and other CFI things of that sort, since my local airport is
really like more of a big flying club with a close-knit community of
fellow aviators than it is a "normal" airport. It would be a neat way
to contribute something back to that community, but I'm still somewhat
skittish in the idea of accepting all the extra responsibility.

Congrats on the big 1000 hour milestone!... just a thought, but have
you ever thought maybe about now pursuing getting a CFI ticket to help
pass on your flying knowledge and experience to others on a casual
basis?

Getting my CFI has always been in the back of my head...but I don't have
time to turn around, lately...

Someday...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
And although it actually took 10 years and 9 months to achieve

You got your ticket in '95, '05 is not over yet. You can rename your
goal to 1000hrs in ten years (AFTER you got your license).

Anyways, Big congrats on the 1000hr mark. Truely a great achievement
(although some would say "been there, done that", they didn't do it
while raising kids, keeping the mrs happy, running your own business
and keeping household obligations intact). Congrats again my friend.

Anyways, Big congrats on the 1000hr mark. Truely a great achievement
(although some would say "been there, done that", they didn't do it
while raising kids, keeping the mrs happy, running your own business
and keeping household obligations intact). Congrats again my friend.

Thanks. I know 1000 hours ain't nuthin' to pilots who have ten (or more)
times the hours I have -- but most of them are commercial pilots.

While they were racking up their bazillion hours on someone else's nickel, I
was having the singular "joy" of paying for each and every one of those
thousand hours myself.

I try not to think about it too much. If you start to factor in what flying
costs per hour, plus the acquisition costs of two planes, plus what we
*could* have done with that money...

Thank goodness Mary likes to fly as much as I do!

:-)

I'm just kidding. There is *nothing* in this world like flying, and it's
been worth every penny, times ten.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay, let me add my congratulations, too.

As to the cost involved: don't sweat the small stuff, even if it ain't
small. My wife and I just got back from a 2,500 mile trip to Alaska and
back, in a 20-year-old, 37' Victory Tug--a slow, full displacement, diesel
powered boat. If we calculated the cost per mile, or per hour, it would
blow our socks off. We know that.

The experience, a lifetime adventure, simply cannot be evaluated in dollars.
Literally priceless.

So must it be with flying.

Press on, cyberspace friend.

Dick Behan
W.P. (Wannabe pilot, age 72)


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:vwQjf.373264$084.4954@attbi_s22...
Anyways, Big congrats on the 1000hr mark. Truely a great achievement
(although some would say "been there, done that", they didn't do it
while raising kids, keeping the mrs happy, running your own business
and keeping household obligations intact). Congrats again my friend.

Thanks. I know 1000 hours ain't nuthin' to pilots who have ten (or more)
times the hours I have -- but most of them are commercial pilots.

While they were racking up their bazillion hours on someone else's nickel,
I was having the singular "joy" of paying for each and every one of those
thousand hours myself.

I try not to think about it too much. If you start to factor in what
flying costs per hour, plus the acquisition costs of two planes, plus what
we *could* have done with that money...

Thank goodness Mary likes to fly as much as I do!

:-)

I'm just kidding. There is *nothing* in this world like flying, and it's
been worth every penny, times ten.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"R.W. Behan" wrote

My wife and I just got back from a 2,500 mile trip to Alaska and
back, in a 20-year-old, 37' Victory Tug--a slow, full displacement, diesel
powered boat. If we calculated the cost per mile, or per hour, it would
blow our socks off. We know that.

The experience, a lifetime adventure, simply cannot be evaluated in
dollars.
Literally priceless.

Is this your boat? I wouldn't think there are many of them around.

Cool!
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote

Is this your boat? I wouldn't think there are many of them around.

OH NO !!! Don't anyone tell BoB, but I am posting into the future, again.

I posted the above post at 8:54, but it showed up with a 9:54 time stamp on
it.
--
Jim in NC

Jim,

If you'll email me, I'll forward an email I sent Jay, with a picture. (I
tried emailing you, but you must have a spam killer in your address.)

Cheers,

Dick


"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"R.W. Behan" wrote

My wife and I just got back from a 2,500 mile trip to Alaska and
back, in a 20-year-old, 37' Victory Tug--a slow, full displacement,
diesel
powered boat. If we calculated the cost per mile, or per hour, it would
blow our socks off. We know that.

The experience, a lifetime adventure, simply cannot be evaluated in
dollars.
Literally priceless.

Is this your boat? I wouldn't think there are many of them around.

Cool!
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"R.W. Behan" wrote

My wife and I just got back from a 2,500 mile trip to Alaska and
back, in a 20-year-old, 37' Victory Tug--a slow, full displacement, diesel
powered boat. If we calculated the cost per mile, or per hour, it would
blow our socks off. We know that.

The experience, a lifetime adventure, simply cannot be evaluated in
dollars.
Literally priceless.

Is this your boat? I wouldn't think there are many of them around.

Cool!

http://www.maplebay.com/page100.htm

The experience, a lifetime adventure, simply cannot be evaluated in
dollars. Literally priceless.

So must it be with flying.

Precisely, Dick. You nailed it right on the head!

Your trip sounds incredible. What, exactly, is a "Victory Tug"?

Does your boat look like this?: http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2F72144C
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"