I grew up flying with my grandfather (1964 beechcraft baron, if you're intrested), and I've decided I'd like to start working towards getting my license. I was thinking light sport, but I think I'll just go ahead and get the sport license, so I can move up later. I've been really interested in the thoughts of building a kit plane...I figure by the time I finish, I'll have my license [laugh]. I'm not dead set on a kit...If I can find the right plane to buy, I might think of it. I'd really like something like a 2 seat pusher, but I'm not dead set.
I know, I know....People say not to buy the plane till your sure you want to fly. I'm sure. I've been up hundreds of times, so I'm not worried about though.
So...Pilots, show me your planes if you've got one (Everyone loves plane porn right?), and what forums do you guys frequent. I always like to check out forums for new things I'm getting into.
One of my local riders' plane.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/2650069380_407ccc28ce.jpg?v=0)
I hang out at JetCareers under the same name. It's a cozy little forum w/ a feel similar to the DMF. A lot of the members know each other outside of the forums, just like here. It's definitely more aviation-career oriented, but there's a wealth of knowledge and lot's of good peeps there.
http://forums.jetcareers.com/
Not a pilot... Yet.
I lurk
http://www.supercub.org/
and
http://www.backcountrypilot.org/index.php
Here is a forum that started because of over-moderating at AOPA
http://www.purpleboard.net/~purplebo/forums/index.php
(http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircrafts/large/046/046018.jpg)
1969 piper cherokee 140b.
I just got back from Oshkosh yesterday ;D
Had we bought the plane before we started learning to fly we would have actually SAVED money. My dad and I threw a lot of money away renting 172SP's
-sean
Quote from: HobokenHooligan on August 01, 2008, 06:06:22 AM
1969 piper cherokee 140b.
Ah, the Cherokee. Someplace between the Stearman he soloed and the Piper Comanche that was his last plane, my Dad owned a Cherokee Arrow. My daughter (who soloed a glider at 14 and soloed power on her 16th birthday) flew the Cherokee a couple of times.
My earliest clear memory that is purely mine (not reinforced by family stories or old photos) is from age 16 or 17 months. It is of climbing through the passage way above the bomb-bay on dad's B25 at Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1944. At that time he was an Army Air Force instrument flight instructor.
my ride...
www.kiowapilots.com
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb201/vampireduc/IMG_0429.jpg)
My other ride
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d176/deweey/CIMG1778.jpg)
I don't fly them, I work on them
CRJ's
(http://byaero.com/Picture/CRJ-700-900-SERIES.jpg)
And the airplane with the biggest shit to size ration I ever worked on, the DeHavilland Dash 8
(http://www.unb.ca/transpo/mynet/Dash_8.jpg)
Aircraft are fascinating, If you've never worked on one.
I've been lurking a little on the purple pilot board a little.
Someone offered me up some flight instruction in trade for some consulting work, which is what re-spurred my interest in flying. I've looked around some, and I think in about a year (after the wife gets settled in her new job), I might pick up a Cessna C150. I've found quite a few for some reasonable prices (20-25k). I've talked to the owner of one who picked his up for learning purposes too, and has kept it.
here is one in texas:
http://www.aerotrader.com/find/listing/1966-CESSNA-150-84906135
of course it'll be gone a year from now, but it's what I'm looking at. It will, however, put my new bike on hold.
I got my PPL and MEL way back in '99 and quit flying when I was almost done w/ my instrument. I've been "working on" finishing up and getting my CPL/CFII's ever since. Kinda like Jamie Foxx's character in "Collateral", if you've seen that movie.
I've finally managed to pull some shit together, done some networking/called in old favors/pulled strings and it looks like it will actually be happening in the next 2-3months.
And fwiw, I did my entire PPL in a cherokee.
Quote from: Le Pirate on August 17, 2008, 06:59:23 PM
I might pick up a Cessna C150. I've found quite a few for some reasonable prices (20-25k). I've talked to the owner of one who picked his up for learning purposes too, and has kept it.
here is one in texas:
http://www.aerotrader.com/find/listing/1966-CESSNA-150-84906135
My father and I looked into the 150/152, I took one up for a few hours and to me it felt like an ultra light. We ended up with that cherokee I posted up earlier in the same price range you're talking about. It had 1700 smoh on but a full instrument package. Its really only a two place although it has two jumpseats in the back that can be used for a third adult with light fuel or two kids. It flys a lot more like a 172, very stable in the air. Airspeed indicator reads in mph and 85 is the magic number, incredibly easy to fly. Try and see if you can rent some time in both types before you pull the trigger.
Quote from: HobokenHooligan on August 18, 2008, 07:35:04 PM
My father and I looked into the 150/152, I took one up for a few hours and to me it felt like an ultra light. We ended up with that cherokee I posted up earlier in the same price range you're talking about. It had 1700 smoh on but a full instrument package. Its really only a two place although it has two jumpseats in the back that can be used for a third adult with light fuel or two kids. It flys a lot more like a 172, very stable in the air. Airspeed indicator reads in mph and 85 is the magic number, incredibly easy to fly. Try and see if you can rent some time in both types before you pull the trigger.
thanks. That is something I'll look at. I plan to do a lot of looking over the next year for the right plane. I'm still looking at the possibility of a kit built, but I'm not sure if I have the time....and I also wouldn't use a kit built to learn in.