Where did you learn to fly

[flyboy0681]

I don't remember the 150 or CFI costs @ KBNA in '68-69 but when I joined Nashville Flying Club after getting my PPL I remember club members paid $8 wet for a Cherokee 140 and $10 wet for a nearly new M20E. We also paid a flat amount/month to cover fixed costs (I think it was about $24) -- insurance, 100hr/annuals, maintenance. 2 planes, 20 members. Only 4 or 5 members ever flew the Mooney. 

 

You are all showing your age. I'm in my mid 50's and paid $32/hr for a 172 during my primary when I was 20.

[kmyfm20s]

Oceanside airport KOKB in a Piper Warrior. My instructor was a British guy that flew classic tail wheels. He would always stress and beat me up over the rudder pedals, big stickler on taxing also. Great basic stick and rudder skills. On my landing he would always compare them to a tail wheel landing. If I landed flat and all wheels touched simultaneously he would say, perfect wheel landing but we are not in a tail wheel.

[mpg]

I signed up for the cessna coarse here at Bremerton,  KPWT in 1978.

Paid a flat 995$,,,   got 20 hrs instructor,  Oran Peterson,,  40 hrs wet 150/152,,  a wiz wheel and a book!

3 mo. later, with 40 hr total, I flew to Tacoma and passed my PPI.

 

I only flew on and off for 11 yrs,,  95 total.

Looking to fly again.

[Raptor05121]

15FL- Cannon Creek. Still renting out of there. 2000x150 grass, 2000x25 paved. makes for fun landings

[xcrmckenna]

I got my PPL at KTTD with Gorge Winds in N5355Q back in 2005. I love that 152 and still fly it for fun every now and then. I got my complex endorsement up at KBFI in N1021K at Galvin Aviation. The 7 hours in the 201 cemented an ownership in a Mooney.

[Seth]

I wanted to fly from the time I was born.  

 

I got my first flight when I was 12 out KVKX Potomac Airfield.  I loved it.  It was  birthday gift from my father.  It was in 1994 and flew int he DCA Class Bravo over RFK stadium where the Washington Redskins played at the time (as Fedex Field had not yet been built in Landover, MD).  This was pre-911.  

 

1999 - I worked at the Air and Space Museum in DC and other smaller odd jobs to save up enough money to start taking lessons my senior year in high school.  I flew out of then Montgomery Aviation at KGAI.   Got just up to before the solo and ran out of money.

 

Fast forward to 2002  in college in Atlanta at Emory University and I was at it again.  Saved up enough money through different jobs and continued training at Lawrenceville, LZU.  Was ready to solo and ran into an issue with my medical which took over a year to sort out.

 

Fast forward to 2004 where I finished my training at Peachtree-Dekalb, KPDK.  Soloed March 1st, 2004, and attained my PPL in May.  

 

Flew on and off the next few years including Cessna 172, P-28, C-182 and a few others.

 

In July 2008 I purchased my Mooney M20F at the MSC at Freeway from a customer who was looking to sell.  I based my aircraft at Freeway Airport, W00 outside of DC.  

 

I earned my Instrument Rating in the summer of 2009.

 

I moved it to the airport closer to my home, KGAI, where I really started my primary training and had been renting for the majority of my flights, in 2010 when a hanger opened up.

 

In July 2011, I sold my F model and purchased my Mooney Missile.  I also moved hangers at KGAI as they tore my old one down.

 

That's where I'm still based.

 

I plan to get my commercial, my CFI, CFII, multi, then CFI Multi, and a tail drager rating in there at some point.

 

-Seth

[N601RX]

In my back yard.

Takeoff 11-3-02 HQ.mov

My Movie.wmv

[wishboneash]

KLVK /1991

[Amelia]

PPL at the late, lamented Blatter Field, OH23, Orrville, Ohio. One of those wonderful old airports where old men hung out on a Saturday afternoon to give good advice and fun rides in their beautiful antiques. (Akron University eventually took it over, with its fresh coat of  FAA asphalt, and promptly closed it. The Feds didn't utter a peep of protest. Creeps.)

IFR at Wayne County Airport, Wooster, Ohio, 20 minutes farther down the road. Longer, wider runway, Shortage of good ol' boys.

Seems they've all migrated to places like Edenton, a good many miles southeast of there.

[Txbyker]

At KDWH near Houston in 1979 when pilots were Men.

 

-GPS?  We didn't have no stinking GPS.  I once had to fly 200 miles for a $20 hamburger by using nothing but ground references.

-Bose Headsets? Heck no.  We men used the ships microphone to bark out our location and listened over a speaker turned up so we could hear it over the engine.

-Rudder extensions?  Nope.  Had to wear our platformed shoes.

 

Russ

[bonal]

Disco pilot shoes

[BKlott]

I took my initial lessons through the PPL flying Tomahawks at Peninsula Aviation, Torrance Municipal Airport in 1983.