Brandontwalker Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 (edited) I got to fly a low approach over the NASA shuttle landing strip today. It was amazing to fly the approach that all of our returning orbiters flew. This was a check mark on the bucket list. What is your aviation bucket list? Edited June 3, 2016 by Brandontwalker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 Things done: PPL Instrument rating own a plane give Young Eagles flights fly to the beach fly to Yellowstone fly in Alaska fly into SnF fly into the oxygen levels Things left to do: Fly to Alaska Fly to West Coast Fly into Oshkosh Make an Angel Flight trip fly a seaplane Fly an open cockpit I'm sure more will occur to me. Looking at the list, though, I have to say my bucket is far from empty. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike261 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 This is an awesome topic. Awesome is an over used word...But this is an awesome topic. I'll bet a nickel that pilots' aviation bucket lists are long. I don't even know where to start. Snowball style with the easy to attain stuff first or pie in the sky style with the hard to get first? what are the guidelines here? pilots need rules. mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandontwalker Posted June 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 No rules. My list is long as well. I generally add 2 for every 1 I check off. • Fly to Cuba • Land at every public airport in my home state (getting closer) • Fly around Mt. McKinley • Sit at the controls of something with a turbine • Fly the Hudson (hope to do this later this summer) • Build an experimental ... The list is long, but that is good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nels Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 My flying bucket list started about four years ago. I hadn't flown in 35 plus yrs and my only checkout was in a Cessna 150. I quite flying to save money and start the family thing. Always wanted a Mooney but it was a rich man's plane at the time and no way to afford it. I finally jumped back in by buying an E model and learned how to fly again; not an easy task for me. Now I want to step up to a J with autopilot and travel back and forth to Denver and eventually to Phoenix. Maybe someday fly over the fabulous terrain in Utah, and even the Grand Canyon. I'm sure the list will grow as my confidence increases. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VetRepp Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 I've many but the one that always comes to mind first is to land at both Death Valley and Leadville ( highest and lowest continental US public airports) in the same day, on a cross country trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsxrpilot Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Yep, love this topic... thankfully I've been able to check quite a few items off the list... these remain in no particular order, and bucket list is always subject to change. Fly to Alaska Fly to Cuba Fly to KittyHawk Tailwheel endorsement CFI/CFII Teach my son to fly Learn to fly aerobatics And a long list of places around the US to see by air from my plane... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1964-M20E Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Good topic. Hank it pirated your list and changed it for me Things done: PPL Instrument rating helicopter rating own a plane fly to the beach fly and camp out with airplane fly into SnF fly helicopters piston and turbine Pilot & paws flights fly a seaplane Things left to do: Fly to Bahamas Fly to West Coast Fly into Oshkosh Fly an open cockpit aerobatics own helicopter build and or buy experimental aircraft (fixed wing or rotor craft) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVandelay Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Shortest list: Still be an active pilot when I'm 90...everything else pales in comparison 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 I'm waiting patiently to qualify with the UFOs. Maybe my wife will one day finish up the Right Seat Ready and become a 99? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steingar Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 I'd like to learn to fly a gyrocopter and a hang glider. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXX Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 After I finish my IR, I want to fly gliders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXX Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 By the way, how did you manage to do the Cape fly over? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Zuffoletto Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 Learn to fly gliders Fly an open cockpit biplane Get type rated in the L-39 at Jetwarbird Training Center Fly my Mooney to the East Coast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonal Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 To make it to retirement before this job kills me. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsxrpilot Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 6 hours ago, steingar said: I'd like to learn to fly a gyrocopter and a hang glider. I've got a couple of hang gliders for sale. They are both modern gliders just a few years old. I've got a beginner glider and Airborne F2 and an intermediate double surface Sting3 for sale. Make me an offer. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradp Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Fly to OSH Learn a tail wheel Learn a Sea Plane Land on a glacier with skis. Ensure plane is undamaged enough to take off from same. Fly to the Carribbean Fly myself to Europe Fly professionally as a second career once I'm burned out enough from the first one Build a kit plane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steingar Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 9 hours ago, gsxrpilot said: I've got a couple of hang gliders for sale. They are both modern gliders just a few years old. I've got a beginner glider and Airborne F2 and an intermediate double surface Sting3 for sale. Make me an offer. :-) I'd love to, but: -I live in flat country -I don't know how to fly one -I'm broke Good luck with the sale 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWinter Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Mine in no particular order: 1. My dad nearing his 80s and has three states his military career never took him to. A part of his bucket list has become part of mine. He would like for us visit them as a father/son venture in the Mooney. I think they are South Dakota, Oregon and Idaho. 2. Complete my IFR , then onto Commercial, Multi and CFI (I'm 52 right now)..better get moving. Our local CFIs are nearing retirement. It would be a great semi-retirement type job while still be able to keep my business here in Tennessee. Hoping to actually move coastal and fly back and forth to Tennessee checking in on the business and maybe instructing 3-4 days while back in Tennessee. I'd actually like to live partial week on the gulf coast (possibly Gulf Shores) and opposite days back in Tennessee (only 2.5 hrs +/- Mooney via speed). Being landlocked the last 15 + years is killing me. Need some ocean air and a change of scenery. 3. I've also really enjoyed 201rs videos of Caribbean flying. To me that is really seeing world by air.. Would love to try it as well Ambitious I know..Not as exciting as some have posted, but more like a " flying timeline life plan". -Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eman1200 Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 PPL..............check Parents first flight with me............check Fly parents to the Bahamas............... Travel around the country by GA plane............. IFR................ Plane ownership/partnership.............. I'm sure others will be added to the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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