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Real life PPL
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Ha!
I have logged my first hour already :D
Not that I plan to start my lessons on a regular basis already, but all in the broader scheme of selecting a flight school and a plane I would like to fly in, etc.
I took my wife along in a C172 in a one hour round trip to see if she would scream flight. Luckily, that was not the case ;D. Beforehand, she was just talking herself into a fear of flying, and I thought I needed to stop that by having her experience flight in "such a shoe-box" in real life. As a touring flight or an instruction flight are both expensive in the same order of magnitude, I wanted to make this officially my first "Dual" hour. Optimistically, I think that 44 hours is enough for me to get my PPL in ;) So now I have a logbook, with one official hour recorded already!
I want to buy a share in a plane to save on the hourly rate during the course already, but more importantly, after the course. I figure: the less per hour cost, the more I will actually go fly in the end of this forseen trajectory. And before I do that, I want to have flown in each of these planes. So I already flew in an AT-3, and I have a standing arrangement to fly a DA-20 in October (weather permitting). Then, I'll try to also find an Aquila A210 to fly in to complete the wish-list. Then I hope to have saved up enough to actually buy myself a share of one of those planes.
You can read all about it in my blog, which I have updated now that I'm back from my holiday:
http://ericjesppl.blogspot.com/
EHM-1465 Dominic:
Great news E-J, glad the plan is progressing well :)
EHM-2589 David:
Congrats E-J. ;) for me is a dream :)
EHM-1997 Alexander:
Way to go E-J ;D
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Thanks guys! :)
And you hang on to that dream, David! And be patient ...
It took me 35 years to get it to the top of my priority list. First those other little things, like getting married, a house, car, new kitchen, you can imagine the list. Now, finally, I seem to have the time and (soon) money available for such luxuries as pursuing a childhood dream. I'm sure if you really, really want this, it will come for you as well, some time. In the mean time, work on your skills with FS. My flight instructor said I could already fly because of FS. All I need to do is learn the pile of theory (of which I know at least half already, because of our hobby), and to perform the emergency procedures, unusual attitudes, that sort of thing.
To be continued ... ;D
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