... in response to Re: Test 321 blast off!, posted by Humabdos on Oct 14, 2003[This message has been edited by Jay]
Hi Hum,
The only thing I've been flying lately is my car. LOL! It's been a couple of months. I've been working alot to save a bunch of money, so I really don't feel like flying on my time off. Maybe in a couple of weeks, I'll take a flight. I'd like to go to Key West to eat lunch or just do some touch and goes.
Also, I still have a small amount of money(enough for a few hours)on the books, at the school I got my license so I can fly thier planes. However, because of thier insurance I can only fly daytime and the only passenger I can take is my wife, and I can only fly her around the airport. LOL! So that kinda sucks. When I get around to it, maybe after I use the money left at the school "keeping the rust off", I'll move on to another airport, find a place to rent planes for less and hook up with some other pilots to fly with. Split costs and have an extra pair of eyes in the cockpit. At least I'll be able to fly any single engine land(not sea, don't have that rating) plane, anywhere I want, anytime I want, with whomever I want. Whatever place I rent at next, will want to give me a "check-out". They all do. I was even checked out at the school, made me fly for an hour with my instructor. They want to see that you can fly before you can rent. That can cost a few hundred dollars at some places. I have to look around.In the meantime I'm just chillin'. I know how to fly, now I just got to build experience. All in good time.
The money I'm saving is for my instrument, commercial and flight instructor ratings. I will need these in order to get PAID to fly. Most people start out instructing as will I. I'm going to do all my remaining training in multi-engine aircraft from here foreward. At a school up the coast. It's after alot of research that I decided this. Good price and I get the chance to instruct at this school for a year after finishing training. All in multi-engine planes. I will need those multi hours to move on after flight instructing. That's what you need to get to fly bigger planes. I have to compete with kids half my age. LOL! Most people do thier training and instructing single engine and get the multi rating later. It's cheaper. However, most are younger and have more time on thier side. Also, I'm not a big fan of turbulence. Never have been. So if I'm going to be bouncing all around in clouds during instrument training, I think I would rather do it in a heavier, faster plane. I feel the need for speed!
All this will take about 15 more months of hard work to save the money. What makes an airplane fly? Money, that's what. Everyone thinks I'm nuts (never said I WAS sane) From family to the loosers I work with, but I don't give a sh!t. Only one who supports me (except you guys) is Criselda, unfailingly, God bless her. Every person who chooses aviation as a career goes through it. Everyone thinks thier nuts for various reasons. For me, I'm making a last stand. I got nothing to loose. It may look hard or even impossible , but that's ok. I just gotta pull a rabbit outa my hat, that's all. It wouldn't be my first time.
FIRST thing I gotta spend a bunch of money on, is a trip to the Philippines. We got to go this time or I think I'll be divorced. LOL! Definitly this time. In Febuary. With a stop in SOCAL to see my brother, also Stephen and Tess and Ray if he'd like. Or maybe We'll fly out of Portland. I'll stop by and you can show me the Bamboo in your backyard.
Well, sorry for the long reply, but YOU asked.
Joke: Q)How do you know theres a pilot at the party?
A) They'll tell you.
Get it? Pilots love to talk about being pilots. I'm no different. LOL!
Hope all is well with you and Sallie, sorry for grammar and spelling errors, I'm late for bed.
Take Care,
Jay
