Any pilots?
Stone Bridges
05-01-2006, 00:03
Are there any (airplane) pilots on here? I am a private pilot working on my IFR rating, I fly for fun, I fly a Piper Cherokee 140. I fly out of Wilgrove Airpark (8A6). I just love flying, it's my passion. Half of my libarary has aviation related books, and I subscribe to several aviation website as well as two magazines. I think about signing up for AOPA but I dunno.
German Nightmare
05-01-2006, 02:53
Are there any (airplane) pilots on here? I am a private pilot working on my IFR rating, I fly for fun, I fly a Piper Cherokee 140. I fly out of Wilgrove Airpark (8A6). I just love flying, it's my passion. Half of my libarary has aviation related books, and I subscribe to several aviation website as well as two magazines. I think about signing up for AOPA but I dunno.
Wow. That's pretty cool! I have actually steered a Cherokee Piper over the Hudson bay in 1998 for 45 minutes. My sister and I took some really great black & white pictures of Manhatten and the WTC. (Need to go look for them one day!).
That was really great. My sister's English teacher on Staten Island knew a pilot and all we had to pay for was fuel, so that was really not a bad deal at all!
Liverbreath
05-01-2006, 03:36
Are there any (airplane) pilots on here? I am a private pilot working on my IFR rating, I fly for fun, I fly a Piper Cherokee 140. I fly out of Wilgrove Airpark (8A6). I just love flying, it's my passion. Half of my libarary has aviation related books, and I subscribe to several aviation website as well as two magazines. I think about signing up for AOPA but I dunno.
Yep, been around it all my life as my father was an instructor out of MKC. His father flew out of KCK in the 1940's and died in a mid air collision a month before I was born, in the first plane my father ever owned. Planning on a commercial rating?
Stone Bridges
05-01-2006, 04:15
Yep, been around it all my life as my father was an instructor out of MKC. His father flew out of KCK in the 1940's and died in a mid air collision a month before I was born, in the first plane my father ever owned. Planning on a commercial rating?
Nah, I'm going to stick with PPL and IFR. This is strictly a hobby for me.
Marrakech II
05-01-2006, 04:24
flown a helicopter few dozen times. Does that count? ;)
Stone Bridges
05-01-2006, 04:26
flown a helicopter few dozen times. Does that count? ;)
Yes it does!
Liverbreath
05-01-2006, 08:12
Nah, I'm going to stick with PPL and IFR. This is strictly a hobby for me.
Well even as a hobby IFR will open a lot of airspace for you.
I've alway enjoyed flying (and jumping) however, nothing comes close to the thrill I got from building my own ultra light and flying that. Unfortunately the FAA is getting it's hooks into that too, so, I am sure they will find an efficent way to make it as inaccessable to as many as possible. (Love flight - Hate the FAA)
Stone Bridges
05-01-2006, 10:03
Well even as a hobby IFR will open a lot of airspace for you.
I've alway enjoyed flying (and jumping) however, nothing comes close to the thrill I got from building my own ultra light and flying that. Unfortunately the FAA is getting it's hooks into that too, so, I am sure they will find an efficent way to make it as inaccessable to as many as possible. (Love flight - Hate the FAA)
Yea I can live without the FAA. I can really live without the TFR (Temp. Flight Restriction). Those are a bitch to fly around, espically during election season.