A new pilot in the family

Woo hoo! Our 17-year-old son, Joe, passed his Private checkride
today, on a picture-perfect fall afternoon!

He flew the rental Cezzna 150 down to Burlington, IA to meet up with
his Designated Examiner, an old P-38 Lightning pilot named Tommy
Tomkins. He's the same guy that gave Mary her checkride nine years
ago -- and she said he was old THEN! He's well North of 80, but still
pretty spritely, according to Joe.

The ride took 1.4 hours, and contained no surprises. Joe was well
prepared, with a bit over 45 hours of "real" flight training time --
and about a thousand hours of "prep" time with us! I'm hoping to be
his first passenger tomorrow. Then we'll have to see about getting him
checked out in Atlas...

One down, one to go. Our 14 year old daughter has a couple of years
to go before she can get started....

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

Jay Honeck wrote:
Woo hoo! Our 17-year-old son, Joe, passed his Private checkride
today, on a picture-perfect fall afternoon!

He flew the rental Cezzna 150 down to Burlington, IA to meet up with
his Designated Examiner, an old P-38 Lightning pilot named Tommy
Tomkins. He's the same guy that gave Mary her checkride nine years
ago -- and she said he was old THEN! He's well North of 80, but still
pretty spritely, according to Joe.

The ride took 1.4 hours, and contained no surprises. Joe was well
prepared, with a bit over 45 hours of "real" flight training time --
and about a thousand hours of "prep" time with us! I'm hoping to be
his first passenger tomorrow. Then we'll have to see about getting him
checked out in Atlas...

One down, one to go. Our 14 year old daughter has a couple of years
to go before she can get started....

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

Congratulations to Joe, you, and Mary for a job well done.


--
Dudley Henriques

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:46:18 -0800 (PST), Jay Honeck
wrote:

Woo hoo! Our 17-year-old son, Joe, passed his Private checkride
today, on a picture-perfect fall afternoon!

Awesome!

On Nov 24, 7:46 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Woo hoo! Our 17-year-old son, Joe, passed his Private checkride
today, on a picture-perfect fall afternoon!

Fabulous! Three pilots in the family. Will you give Joe equal PIC
time on Atlas? ;-)

Hai Longworth

Congratulations to Joe, you, and Mary for a job well done.

Thanks, Dudley!

Hey, everyone -- do me a favor and bombard Joe's email box with your
congratulations, just like you did after his solo flight. He's a
great kid, and he worked extremely hard to earn his ticket.

His email is

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

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
...
Woo hoo! Our 17-year-old son, Joe, passed his Private checkride
today, on a picture-perfect fall afternoon!



:-)

Fabulous! Three pilots in the family. Will you give Joe equal PIC
time on Atlas? ;-)

I don't think he can afford the hourly rental rate...

;-)

Seriously, he's gonna be hard-pressed to afford to stay current in the
FBO's Cezzna 150. Until he's out of college, and working a good job,
I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up having to hang it up for a year
or two.

But, hey -- he's got it in his wallet. THAT was the important part.

And he's still talking about possibly pursuing flying as a profession
-- so he may go on and get his IR and CFI.

Free BFRs!

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

On Nov 24, 8:10 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Congratulations to Joe, you, and Mary for a job well done.

Thanks, Dudley!

Hey, everyone -- do me a favor and bombard Joe's email box with your
congratulations, just like you did after his solo flight. He's a
great kid, and he worked extremely hard to earn his ticket.

His email is

Thanks,
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay

HIs email address was masked by google groups (see above), so I could
not make out what it was.

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:24:55 -0800 (PST), Jay Honeck wrote:

And he's still talking about possibly pursuing flying as a profession
-- so he may go on and get his IR and CFI.

Free BFRs!

They may be no-cost, but they'll NEVER be free: "C'mon, dad, how many times do I
have to tell you...." :-)

Ron Wanttaja

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Woo hoo! Our 17-year-old son, Joe, passed his Private checkride


That's great! Way to go, Joe.

But, uh, Jay? You know what this means, don't you?

You're going to have to give up more yoke time.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM