Just starting out...

Jay Honeck wrote:

- Treat flight training like a semester of college. Fly Mon/Wed/Fri --
study Tue/Thu. You'll finish up faster, and save yourself money in the
long run.

LOL, that's because it *is* very much like a college course...at least
that's how it seemed to me. Huge text book, homework, instructor
quizzing you, memorizing stuff, etc. Ahh, but the "lab work" of flying
makes it all worth the effort. Funnest college course I've ever taken :-)

Good advice from Jay...fly as often as you can and you'll spend less on
getting the license. Of course, any money you save by getting your
license earlier will just get spent on more flying afterwards, flying
toys, etc...but who cares?

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL, IA Student, airplane partnership student

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

Of course, any money you save by getting your license earlier will just get
spent on more flying afterwards, flying toys, etc...but who cares?

Precisely.

Just don't tell your wife that part...

;-)

(Or, if you're incredibly lucky, marry another pilot...)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

bryan chaisone wrote:

I got lucky during my training years. I worked 12 minutes from the
airport and I was taking two hour luches to fly almost every day.

So did I. I worked about 15 minutes from the airport and was lead of a small
software project that was in maintenance mode. I could pretty much schedule
lessons when I wanted to and make the time up by working at night.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

"Jase Vanover" wrote in message news:Lteqd.86023

Let's just say that I'm hooked and leave it at that.

Sorry, man. It doesn't work that way. Just take out your wallet, turn it
upside down and dump it on the ground. You can't walk away now.

I ended up leaving the airport with a manual, logbook, student record,
fuel testing
cup,

See? Who takes a discovery flight and buys their own fuel testing cup?
Lucky you walked out without buying a Cessna. (Counter-argument is that if
you were really lucky, you'd have walked out with a Cessna.)

Congrats! I've yet to spend a dollar flying that I've regretted.

-c

HAW!

Guilty as well...

Last "Big **** grin" time for me ,was a few wks ago, 9k over
the city, at night, full moon..

See the lights of other comunities for miles in any direction.

All by myself....in our 172.

I just DO this sometimes....

))))) "big **** grin"

Dave


On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:36:45 -0800, "gatt"
wrote:


"Jase Vanover" wrote in message news:Lteqd.86023

Let's just say that I'm hooked and leave it at that.

Sorry, man. It doesn't work that way. Just take out your wallet, turn it
upside down and dump it on the ground. You can't walk away now.

I ended up leaving the airport with a manual, logbook, student record,
fuel testing
cup,

See? Who takes a discovery flight and buys their own fuel testing cup?
Lucky you walked out without buying a Cessna. (Counter-argument is that if
you were really lucky, you'd have walked out with a Cessna.)

Congrats! I've yet to spend a dollar flying that I've regretted.

-c

Hey its George! Look, there's George! Hi George!

I used to call you General, because I assumed that Patterson was short
for son of Patton.

Anyways, I was An estimator for a roofing company at that time. I was
a tinman (roofer) prior to that. My time was very flexible. 2 hours a
day or 18 hours a day, my choice. Just get the job done.

Bryan

Hey its George! Look, there's George! Hi George!

I used to call you General, because I assumed that Patterson was short
for son of Patton.

Anyways, I was An estimator for a roofing company at that time. I was
a tinman (roofer) prior to that. My time was very flexible. 2 hours a
day or 18 hours a day, my choice. Just get the job done.

Bryan

wrote:

I used to call you General, because I assumed that Patterson was short
for son of Patton.

No, Patterson is ancient Gaellic for "packrat".

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
wrote:

I used to call you General, because I assumed that Patterson was short
for son of Patton.




No, Patterson is ancient Gaellic for "packrat".

Damn! I learned something again. Hate it when that happens.

Bryan


George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

Long overdue update...

So I'm up to about 18 hours now (man... weather sucks over the winter).
In the interim, I decided to get Lasik surgery done on my eyes (turned out
quite well, thank you) that has had me waiting before I could get my
medical. As a result, I've done a lot more dual before solo than would
normally be required. It is awfully nice to see well without glasses
though.

Still wake up like it's Christmas morning when I'm scheduled to fly. Still
pout and am sour when the weather doesn't cooperate (like today). The days
are starting to get long, so I'm hoping that when my medical comes through
(have appointment next week, then it's just submitting the papers) I'll be
able to put in some long hours.

I find the book learning fascinating as well as the actual flying (though
would admittedly rather be in the air). I have lots of school experience,
so find the study / exam writing not too difficult... it's really pretty
easy when you're interested in the subject.

No really scary happenings during training. Here in Canada, there is spin
instruction (I understand this isn't the case in the US?) Recently they
changed it that spins have to be demonstrated, but not practiced. My CFI
asked if I would like to try a few, and I'm a sucker when it comes to trying
cool things in a plane, so of course I did. That, and spiral dives have
been the "hairiest" of the flying I've done. Can't say as though it feels
very comfortable, however. My CFI commented that glancing out the window
during recovery from a particularly nasty spiral that he could see the wing
flexing and "rippling", which scared me more than the actual activity.

Had an interesting flight awhile ago. Here in Montreal, there are two large
airports. The Pierre Elliot Trudeau (formerly Dorval) airport, and the
Mirabel airport. Mirabel was "supposed" to be the big international when
the government built it in the 70's, but has turned out to be a white
elephant. It's still open, but pretty much no traffic. We flew out there
to do some touch and goes. It is a BIG change to do touch and goes in a
C-152 on a 12,000 foot by 200 foot runway, when you're used to something
much smaller. I got quite a kick out of turning crosswind at 700ft while
still over the runway with lots left to go! Hard to judge the flare on
landings though. With the wide runway, I tended to flare too early...
thinking we were close when still at some altitude. Flying would be easy if
things were the same all the time (wind, runway, plane, etc.)

Anyhow, wanted to give an update and let you all know that I'm enjoying
reading and learning from the newsgroup as I go along. Why the hell didn't
I do this earlier?


"Jase Vanover" wrote in message
...
Was on vacation this week, so decided to drop by the nearby GA airport and
go for a flight to see if I really do want to get my pilot's license.
Let's just say that I'm hooked and leave it at that. It's a good thing
the Instructor was busy scanning the sky because had he looked at me, I
would have felt silly with the big **** eating grin on my face. I ended
up leaving the airport with a manual, logbook, student record, fuel
testing cup, a reserved spot in groundschool that starts in January, and
time booked for the next three weekends to fly.

It was only in a 152, which seemed really small when we got in (getting in
and out seemed to be the hardest part). The instructor ran the throttle,
mix, and assorted switches... I got to fly the rest of the flight (apart
from flare and touchdown). We took off, flew around for a bit, got lined
up with the runway (it's a good thing the instructor was there to tell me
where to turn and when... the runway just seemed to appear in front of me
without really realising how we got back). I've spent quite a few hours
on PC simulation, which I think paid off. He'd say something like, "I'm
going to throttle down to decend, just adjust attitude to keep your speed
at 60 knots," but didn't explain what gauge to look at or what to really
do. Nonetheless, I nailed it because of the familiarity I had with the
simulator. He said we could probably do the next several exercises all at
once, since we pretty much did most of it in the intro ride anyway
(climbs, straight and level flight, decents, turns, etc.) I'm pretty sure
I'm the lowest time pilot on this newsgroup (got to log 0.5 hours of dual
instruction time). Anyhow... I'm hooked (but I pretty much knew I'd be).

I had been talking about doing this for some time... reading magazines,
lurking here, checking out websites and such. Looking forward to the
journey.

Anyone else fly out of Les Cedres (just West of Montreal)?