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Honky Lips

Honky Lips

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Or lawn darts into a cornfield. you'll have to catch that on the news as I wont be able to update this thread.

took the leap and got signed up for the classes. Did my first flight today, and it was definitely different. Seems odd to be able to be in control on day 1, did banking turns and a giant square following nsew directions. maintaining steady altitude while turning is tough along with throttle control. this is gonna be an interesting adventure. plan is to eventually get my own plane to fly around on my own and not be at the mercy of commercial airlines and the disaster they have become.

anyone got any tips tricks, good YouTube channels to subscribe to or anything else?

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I started and stopped sadly. I now have a respect for the skies. The plane I was renting got sold and never did try to finish due to cost and such. Good luck!!
 
I did a few lessons about 10 years ago and loved it.

I really want to get my lic and get a small plane but between my wife swearing that she would never ever get in a small plane and the math not penciling out for owning one, I guess i will never be able to fly myself around.

good for you and have fun!
 
Honky Lips said:
Or lawn darts into a cornfield. you'll have to catch that on the news as I wont be able to update this thread.

took the leap and got signed up for the classes. Did my first flight today, and it was definitely different. Seems odd to be able to be in control on day 1, did banking turns and a giant square following nsew directions. maintaining steady altitude while turning is tough along with throttle control. this is gonna be an interesting adventure. plan is to eventually get my own plane to fly around on my own and not be at the mercy of commercial airlines and the disaster they have become.

anyone got any tips tricks, good YouTube channels to subscribe to or anything else?

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Enjoying doing a spin recovery....I was 3 flights away from license before I stopped flying. I had to move states for a job working on level D flight simulators. Flying those things for 4 to 6 hours a night killed it for me


Also flying is fucking expensive.
 
Congratulations!

That’s something I’ve alway wanted to learn to do. I’m kinda a control freak when it come to “who’s driving”.

My dad got his pilot’s license for that same reason, he never actually flew after he got his license, but he felt better knowing if anything happened to the pilot…
 
Cool! :smokin:

I took lessons and ground school back in the ‘80’s.. solo’d twice.. never went any further with it.

I found it pretty fun, but expensive.
 
When I glanced at that pic at first I thought it was a windshield with fucking brown packing tape on the bottom of it. :laughing:

I was gonna bet heavily on the lawn darting. :lmao:
 
Got my license in 1987, rented airplanes till 2001, bought a Piper Cherokee 180 and put over 2000 hours on it. Took the family on numerous trips in the plane. Retired, sold the plane and bought a boat. Would do it all over again if I could lots of fun and great life experiences especially for my kids. It opened up a lot more options for vacations and weekends.
Best advice I can give you is don't stop your training until you're done. It seems once you stop next thing you know 10 years go by.
Don't take stupid chances on the weather, you're the pilot so make the tough no go decisions. "Get there idous" is real, don't go there.
Density altitude is also a real thing, do not ignore it!
 
east_beast said:
When I glanced at that pic at first I thought it was a windshield with fucking brown packing tape on the bottom of it. :laughing:

I was gonna bet heavily on the lawn darting. :lmao:
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get in enough small planes and you’ll realize how much they’re dependent on duct tape holding random non-critical crap together. Brown packing tape on the bottom edge of the windshield while alarming, wouldn’t stop me from climbing in.
 
Way to go. Just cracked 1000 hours a couple of weeks ago. Find a cheap plane you can buy and you’ll fly way more. Renting sucks. Train as many days a week as you can and get done. Friends boy went 0 to checkride in 4 weeks, after you pass your checkride you can slow down your training…. I’m certainly not as knowledgeable as some on here, but I am C-SEL, CFI, A&P/IA, so I do know which end of the screwdriver is the work end.
 
Holler if you have questions. I grew up in general aviation and I’m still heavily involved. Lots of pilots in my family including my mom and my wife. Aviation has been paying my bills for 20 yrs.
 
Was it you or the guy after drawing dick and balls in the sky?? I didnt think they taught that until lesson 3. :flipoff2:
 
Baldy said:
Don't take stupid chances on the weather, you're the pilot so make the tough no go decisions. "Get there idous" is real, don't go there.
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Kyle said:
Now respect the weather..
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Pilot & passengers went out in a snow storm- :eek:
www.history.com

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” die in a plane crash | February 3, 1959 | HISTORY

Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with the pilot, are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed...
www.history.com www.history.com
 
det107 said:
Pilot & passengers went out in a snow storm- :eek:
www.history.com

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” die in a plane crash | February 3, 1959 | HISTORY

Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with the pilot, are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed...
www.history.com www.history.com
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That crash site isn’t very far from the OP. :laughing:
 
Pyleit said:
Enjoy and congrats! LmK if you need anything a long the way, or get addicted and want to make a career out of it... 😆
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I couldn’t imagine working for a passenger transport airline. Seems like a nightmare organization to be part of lol. Maybe freight. :lmao:
 
Baldy said:
Best advice I can give you is don't stop your training until you're done. It seems once you stop next thing you know 10 years go by.
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I'll second this. If you're going to do it, don't slow down until you're instrument rated. I got the VFR card and halfway to IFR and bought a Jeep. :homer: Haven't flown since.
 
You might consider buying a plane, get your ticket and selling it to get what you want. When I got my license, I rented. I could have bought an old C-150, get the ticket and put a few more hours on it and then sold it.

Example, at the time there was a airworthy C-150 available for 15 grand. I could have put 100 hours on it and it still would be worth 15 grand. The 100 hours would only cost me fuel and however many instructor hours I needed. (Once you solo, you don’t need him to practice) It would have been far cheaper and you can put a lot more practice hours in without thinking about money.

A C-150 is not what you want in the end, but it’s great to learn in.
 
Honky Lips said:
I couldn’t imagine working for a passenger transport airline. Seems like a nightmare organization to be part of lol. Maybe freight. :lmao:
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It's not bad, I can go days without seeing the pax on a plane if I don't want to. If some cool, well behaved kids show up (with a hot mom helps), and I feel like it, I'll invite them up to check out the cockpit. Other than that, I don't talk to pax much.

Flight attendants on the other hand...

When I got in to the biz, my dad asked me, "what do flight attendants and crew meals have in common?"

"No idea"

"You only want two until you've had the first one"
 
det107 said:
Pilot & passengers went out in a snow storm- :eek:
www.history.com

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” die in a plane crash | February 3, 1959 | HISTORY

Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with the pilot, are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed...
www.history.com www.history.com
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Tin Roof said:
That crash site isn’t very far from the OP. :laughing:
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Have fun and be careful. My Dad had a Cessna 172 for awhile and it was a blast.

The Buddy Holly crash still baffles me. Can't believe that the pilot took off in that weather, with that plane, and without being fully trained to fly in those conditions. I was born up there and my family owns a farm up there as well. It's cold, snowy, and windy that time of year!
 
Every time I get the urge to sign up I go sit in a plane I could technically afford and remind myself that I can't afford a plane that a 6'6" guy could comfortably ride in. :flipoff2:
 
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