So what's your New Years aviation Resolution
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So what's your New Years aviation Resolution
Like poetpilot said in another thread, mine's going to be more x-countries and see a bit more of this green and pleasant land of ours. Too many local jaunts is not good for the soul (but better than being stuck on the ground)
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Solo aeros now my AOPA Certificate has arrived. I agree about the 'too many short jaunts' comment - Problem is long ones cost lots and lots and can take a chaps monthly budget in one foul swoop.
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My NYR is to actually DO some flying.
I've heard it said that the hardest part of learning to fly is picking up the phone to book the first lesson. Well, after having not been up for 6 months (damn, is it really that long?) I find myself in the same situation.
Should I wait until I've got a bit more dosh in case I have to stop again? What if the weather screws all my plans up? Would it be better to go where the weather's better all the time? What if I get kidnapped by aliens on the way to the airfield?.....
Looks like I need to get it sorted out and stop making excuses to myself or I'll be telling my grandkids how I once started learning how to fly and plan to finish off someday...
I've heard it said that the hardest part of learning to fly is picking up the phone to book the first lesson. Well, after having not been up for 6 months (damn, is it really that long?) I find myself in the same situation.
Should I wait until I've got a bit more dosh in case I have to stop again? What if the weather screws all my plans up? Would it be better to go where the weather's better all the time? What if I get kidnapped by aliens on the way to the airfield?.....
Looks like I need to get it sorted out and stop making excuses to myself or I'll be telling my grandkids how I once started learning how to fly and plan to finish off someday...
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Go and do the remaining PPL exams (rather than thinking about starting doing them 'next month'). Dull resolution, I know, but gotta be done... <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
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Finish my difference training on the Yak 52.
Do more flights to the rest of Europe, I've only been over the water a couple of times.
Definitely do some revision for instrument flying and maybe start my IMC. ... Oh! and then there's the night rating.
Just have to find the cash!!!
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Do more flights to the rest of Europe, I've only been over the water a couple of times.
Definitely do some revision for instrument flying and maybe start my IMC. ... Oh! and then there's the night rating.
Just have to find the cash!!!
RD
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Having got over the frisson of my shiny new 47 hour PPL hitting the doormat between Christmas and New Year:
- Become properly comfortable with using an aeroplane to get to new scenery, outside my East Anglia / East Mids training patch
- When I take my first passengers flying, be properly considerate of their needs and leave them wanting more rather than less
- Get a tailwheel conversion
- Do some thorough spin and aerobatics training (speaking of which, any recommendations? The Pitts at Sywell is quite a long way from my east Cambridgeshire home, and I haven't spotted anything else nearer e.g. Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex
- Become properly comfortable with using an aeroplane to get to new scenery, outside my East Anglia / East Mids training patch
- When I take my first passengers flying, be properly considerate of their needs and leave them wanting more rather than less
- Get a tailwheel conversion
- Do some thorough spin and aerobatics training (speaking of which, any recommendations? The Pitts at Sywell is quite a long way from my east Cambridgeshire home, and I haven't spotted anything else nearer e.g. Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex
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Go to US and/or Oz to do some cheaper - well, less expensive anyway - heli flying cos I need another 98 hours before I can do the instructors course. <img src="eek.gif" border="0">
Do the Dawn to Dusk again (f/w) and maybe do the Dawn to Dusk half competition in a helicopter.
Do a few days flying in the Highlands and Islands, maybe to the Barra fly-in in April.
Then in 2003 maybe I can do my heli instructors rating, and finally get around to doing the f/w IMC, only been talking about it for about 4 years.
Haven't thought further ahead than that.
Do the Dawn to Dusk again (f/w) and maybe do the Dawn to Dusk half competition in a helicopter.
Do a few days flying in the Highlands and Islands, maybe to the Barra fly-in in April.
Then in 2003 maybe I can do my heli instructors rating, and finally get around to doing the f/w IMC, only been talking about it for about 4 years.
Haven't thought further ahead than that.
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By theft and/or other means, get my frozen ATPL. I get the feeling that I may not be the only one thinking that. Only time will tell. Now, where did I put that loan application?
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Fly more, talk less, pay off the mortgage, earn a fortune writing and buy a REALLY nice aeroplane......
OK maybe that's a 10 year resolution <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
OK maybe that's a 10 year resolution <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
