First flying lessons!

[tetra316 0]

I've been thinking about taking a flying lesson for a while so when our videographer got his instructor license and started offering discovery flights I couldn't resist! It was great actually being in the pilot's seat and flying the plane after that many skydives. Amazing how the slights bank can make you nervous in the pilots seat but you won't even notice it in the back. I'm thinking I might have to keep taking lessons

[cloudseeker2001 0]

cool!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

[mx757 4]

I was working on my pilots license when I stopped for fuel.. at a dropzone.. now I do both flying / skydive.
i'm about only deaf / amputee private pilot I think..
I haven't met any other deaf / amputee pilots.
I'm a aircraft mechanic by trade..my full time job.
flying cessna and skydiving are my hobbys..
Mike

[ACMESkydiver 0]

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[tetra316 0]

So how does that work with communications between you and the tower? Or do you just fly where there are no communications?

[CieloDiosa 0]

hey!!!
i got my pilots license when i was 17
tried jumping all my young years but no dz allowed it till i was 18
so i guess i started just about the same time?? never really crossed over

anyway take up flying!!! its great.. so much fun!!!
only problem when flying left seat is, you sometimes have the urge to want to jump out
good luck

~boogie ho!!
pull before impact!
L.A.S.T#14, PMS #309, Ci EL O DI O SA

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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I'm thinking I might have to keep taking lessons

I was a pilot first and a skydiver second. Flying definitely is an aid to being a better skydiver.

I hope you continue with flying lessons. Flying is amazing!

-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[DrunkMonkey 0]

Kewl...I'm up to about 50 hrs...Gotta finish my PPL...Took 3 months off to move and go on some business trips...But I will hopefully have it finished by the end of Jan '05.

It's hella fun...

P.S.: "First" flying lessons? BEER!

[tetra316 0]

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P.S.: "First" flying lessons? BEER!

Hey I thought this only applied to skydiving!

[mx757 4]

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So how does that work with communications between you and the tower? Or do you just fly where there are no communications?

I fly non tower airports. / VFR uncontrolled airspace.
when I need to travel.. I go First Class on AA ~ free My employer nice benifits. i'm aircraft mechanic on the 767 at overhaul base.

[mx757 4]

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So how does that work with communications between you and the tower? Or do you just fly where there are no communications?

I fly where no communications are required. I can NOT hear / understand the aircraft radios at all. I have flown into tower controlled airports before, but that requires I use telephone relay service for deaf to call flight service get transponder code, let the tower know I'm coming etc. and they give me light signals. I don't do that much.. too much hassel. by the way. I'm a left arm amputee pilot. I fly one hand. I DO NOTuse a prosthetic hook while flying. but I do while skydiving to fly / flare the canopy.

[Derekbox 0]

I dont have my PPl yet, plan on getting when I can afford too.. But I am in aviation by trade. Im an avionics installer on Citation jets and an A&P.

Somewhere between work school and sleep I manage to be a skydiver too

[CieloDiosa 0]

WHATTTT!?!?!

radios are fun!!!
controlled towers are the best they vector you right in, make you feel cool

hahaha at least thats what i think

~boogie ho!!
pull before impact!
L.A.S.T#14, PMS #309, Ci EL O DI O SA

[2fat2fly 0]

I had the card for the local instructor left on my desk this morning. I guess that means that I should start soon.

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[piisfish 140]

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WHATTTT!?!?!

radios are fun!!!
controlled towers are the best they vector you right in, make you feel cool

hahaha at least thats what i think

hey skygoddess, didn't you read that the poster is deaf ??

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[CieloDiosa 0]

MY BAD phishy!!

must of overlooked that one
well in that case, noncontrolled towers are the best!!

but ya know, you could always fly into a controlled field, squwak 7600, look for light gun signals and rock ur wings!!!

haha, yea thats too much work

~boogie ho!!
pull before impact!
L.A.S.T#14, PMS #309, Ci EL O DI O SA

[mnealtx 0]

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P.S.: "First" flying lessons? BEER!

Hey I thought this only applied to skydiving!

Yeah, but if you're a skydiver it applies to ANY first...have to keep the beer supplies up, ya know!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[tetra316 0]

Hey I've been keeping the beer supplies up anyways..... Getting my tandem rating a few weeks ago and getting my static line rating two weeks ago

[LearningTOfly 0]

I did my Private, Night, Multi/IFR, and Commercial back when I was 18... and started jumping towards the end of me 18th year. The flying experience made the canopy control part of jumping easy- after the first jump I pretty much decided "nevermind that annoyance on the radio ...now where'd I put that front riser? oh yes, wheeee!"

I hope to start flying at a local dz once I finish building up the 500hr minimum or whatever the insurance guys are after these days... then I'll be able to call myself a real live skyslut

[bobsled92 0]

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I did my Private, Night, Multi/IFR, and Commercial back when I was 18... and started jumping towards the end of me 18th year. The flying experience made the canopy control part of jumping easy- after the first jump I pretty much decided "nevermind that annoyance on the radio ...now where'd I put that front riser? oh yes, wheeee!"

I hope to start flying at a local dz once I finish building up the 500hr minimum or whatever the insurance guys are after these days... then I'll be able to call myself a real live skyslut

1st JUMP flight is a CASE OF BEER

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[bob.dino 1]

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1st JUMP flight is a CASE OF BEER

...for every jumper on the load .

[justaflygirl 0]

My hubby is about 1/2 way thru getting his private license. He has been jumping for 4 years.

For the longest time (from childhood) up to about 5 years ago I really wanted to be a pilot, even in the past 5 years it was still always somewhere on my mind. However, since I became a skydiver, I pretty much lost interest in it and then when my hubby started flying lessons and I got a good look at the practice tests and all the shit you have to know to just have a private license, i pretty much lost any remaining interest that I had. I had rather just be "along for the ride", with a trusty rig that is...

[2fat2fly 0]

Monday at 4pm eastern, I'll hop in to a Piper Warrior for my first lesson. I've spent enough right seat time in the last year or so to realize that I have no natural ability so I'm not as excited as I could be.

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[mx757 4]

i pretty much lost any remaining interest that I had.
It's really not that difficult to get your private rating. oral exam is hardest part of the test in my opinion.

the hardest part is time and MONEY!

Mike

[LearningTOfly 0]

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1st JUMP flight is a CASE OF BEER

My first freefall was.... then a few days later I put one down behind the beer line... so I was able to gain the full experience of skydiving times two.