CinciGreg writes:

Since the cost of training is hopelessly beyond my budget, anyway, I
may as well dream of multiengine training.

As a non-aviator in much the same boat, you may want to consider hang
gliding. It's not the "daredevil sport" it may once have been, and is
not a terribly expensive undertaking. I'll probably take my first
lesson in a week or so, at which point I'll decide whether that will be
my primary life focus next spring. Just a thought.

Thanks. I rather think that with my interests tending towards the big
iron side and IFR, hang gliding might be the wrong direction to take,
but who knows? I've read about a lot of dead hang gliders, though.
It's possible that they just didn't know what they were doing, I
suppose. From the videos I've seen, it involves a lot of sensations
I'd prefer to avoid.

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