Convince me to stick with it . . .

Gary G wrote:
Sorry - I posted this to the wrong group.
Meant to post to .student

No problem - go ahead.

I started flying powered aircraft at an age
of nearly 40, and it's not as easy to learn
as earlier. I flew gliders for some time
and started again after a pause of 20 years.

It took me 10 hours and 103 landings before
the first solo. The airspeed problems feel
familiar - IMHO, they belong to the learning
curve. My training airplane, a Piper Tomahawk,
is particularly difficult to trim properly
for an airspeed, as the trim mechanism is a
spring instead of an aerodynamic tab.

Just count the frustration as a necessary
evil, bite the bullet and go ahead. Training
makes the master.

The feeling of the first solo is unique, you'll
remember it the rest of your life.

--

Tauno Voipio (CPL-A, CFII)
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:32:06 GMT, Tauno Voipio
wrote:

It took me 10 hours and 103 landings before
the first solo.

Forty? We *dreamed* of being forty!

I took my first flight lesson at 66. Various problems intervened, but
48 hours dual and 115 landings got me to solo a year later.

It was all fun (well, mostly). Stick with it, Gary!


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