First flying lessons!

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Anyways who else out there has crossed over? Skydiving to flying or flying to skydiving?

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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...

It's really rewarding to learn that stuff, though.
I was daunted by the "enormity" of it when I first looked at it. It's important to take it in small steps and learn each bit as a separate thing. With any large learning endeavor, if you try to grasp the entire thing all at once, it'll freak you out. I used to think about the F.A.R.s you had to learn, and thought I'd never be able to (even though I am good at memorizing stuff). I started flying lessons in the late '80s, and my dad was paying for it then, and because of my laziness and fear of the studying, I gave that up with 32 hours done. I didn't get going at it again until 2002, when I got my license.

I realize that when you start learning it, the romance melts away and you see the nitty-gritty of flying, but it's still a liberating feeling to pilot a plane. Maybe once your husband has his ticket, you'll want to get yours all over again.
-Jeffrey

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

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I wanted to be able to fly to the Bahamas. So, I got my complex, checked off in 172, 152, arrow and archer. I needed a break from work, flew to a dz, did a tandem, walked back in, started AFF, spent the night in the dz hangar, flew home and haven't flown cross country since. That was over two years ago and I never flew to the Bahamas. Some day, when I have more free time, I'll take it up again and get something fast enough to take me places in lieu of the airlines. For now, everyone I know just wants to jump out of them.

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Anyways who else out there has crossed over? Skydiving to flying or flying to skydiving?

I also was a pilot first. Not knowing a thing about skydiving, it always made me nervous flying around airports where there were jump operations going on. Everytime I heard the jump warnings on the radio, I'd look up to see if there were any bodies zooming down towards me!

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I wanted to be able to fly to the Bahamas. So, I got my complex, checked off in 172, 152, arrow and archer. I needed a break from work, flew to a dz, did a tandem, walked back in, started AFF, spent the night in the dz hangar, flew home and haven't flown cross country since. That was over two years ago and I never flew to the Bahamas. Some day, when I have more free time, I'll take it up again and get something fast enough to take me places in lieu of the airlines. For now, everyone I know just wants to jump out of them.

Dude, I never knew you were a pilot!

Hey, some day, maybe we should get together and do that Bahamas flight. I've never done it either, but it was never a goal of mine like it was yours.

Have you ever flown to Key West? I did that in October 2002 a month after I got licensed. It happened to be the end weekend of Fantasy Fest, and I didn't even know it until I arrived and had to taxi to overflow parking! Key West is an awesome flight. I did the whole thing at or below 1000', so I got to see everything in/on the water, and all the hotels and residences. It was neat.

On the way down, I heard someone being advised about a flight of six F-15s on a heading of east at 3,500. I spotted them and took a picture with my little disposa-cam, but they're specks in the print. Then on the flight back, which was from dusk through night, as I passed east of Ft. Lauderdale, flight following gave me a traffic advisory about the GOODYEAR BLIMP at 12 o'clock, same altitude. So I passed 2000' east of the Goodyear Blimp and saw it right off my left wing at 1000' or so. Crazy thing! (Oh, I had spotted him before I got the advisory, though.)

Anyway, we should fly together sometime.
You still jumping at Clewiston? I've been at Sebastian mostly now. See you around.

-Jeffrey

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