I am planning to get my pilot’s liscence in about a year and was wondering who else in here has it?[:)]
I fly Helicopters (That right HELICOPTERS![:D]) for a living. I also teach others how to fly helicopters.[8D]
I wanted to fly helicopters for a while, but the training is expensive. So I settled for the next best thing!
I’m active pilot in US, look like that you are from Canada, if I can help you with any awnsers send me a e-mail with questions. Good luck.
Gumiflex
Licenced on both power and gliders. I’m not afraid of a deadstick landing
because I’ve made hundreds of them. I really prefer to fly high performance sailplanes
over power because next to birds, it’s flying in it’s purest form.
Ray
You wouldn’t want me driving a car down your street, much less flying over your house. My eyesight kept me from my dream of being an Air Force pilot. So I work on nuclear reactors instead. Feel better now??
I’ve had my ppl since 1991. You’ll love it. Read as many flying mag’s as you can.
Commercial ticket, Multi-engine an dinstrument ratings, although I haven’t been in a cockpit, let alone on the gauges, for a while now. D**n shame, really, but the house and kid come first.[sigh]
Private pilot, single engine land, since 1982.
I have access to a Cessna 182 and a Cessna 152 through a club. I occasionaly get up in a Piper Tomahawk and a Piper Cherokee 180. A few times a year I get up in a Citabria for some mild aerobatics with the aircrafts owner, who is also an instructor.
I got a ride in a glider for a few hours once, and as stated above it is flying in its purest form.
Flying for me is something I like to do several times a year. I don’t want to do it every day, and never ever want it to be “work”.
Once I get my last child out of the house, and on her own, I’m going looking for a good Piper Cub, or a Super Cub, to restore to a like new condition. Then I’ll do some of that slow “seat -of -the -pants”, “stick-and-rudder”, type flying. Cheers, rangerj
No PPL or anything (I just haven’t gotten around to taking the equivalency tests), but I’m a student naval aviator in the Marine Corps. It’s much cheaper when you let Uncle Sam pay for all your quals 
flying is my job and thus far, it never gets old. there’s not much else in the world I’d rather do than go zip around the sky every day
Got about 25 hours as a student pilot and hopefully will get my first hour of helo flight this weekend. After that, I’m headed to Mother Rucker for a year of helo flight training for Uncle Sam. Its just about the only way I could afford to fly helicopters!
I used to have my private pilot licience. I flew cessna 152’s. passing my flight test was the proudest moment in my life. It will be for you to,but youve got to stick with it. If your just going to train on weekends,itll take you about a year and $5000.00 Canadian. to finish.
Its worth every penny!
I have had my PPL about 15 years. Have over 1,200 hours, fully rated IFR, single and twin engine. Nothing like being alone at 4,000 Ft AGL, at night looking at the lights on the ground and the stars and moon in the sky. It gives true meaning to the poem “High Flight”.
au contrare
200’ @ 500+ knots is probably the most fun you can have with your clothes on - there is nothing like that.
but I will give you that… at night, flying alone on a cavu night… probably one of the most peaceful things in the world.
Yeah, private pilot, but I’m a newbie – got it in Dec 2004, after wanting/waiting for 59 years !!!
Now I’m working on instrument.
Wifey has been on several “air tours” up & down the beach & has seen whales & things, so has forgiven most of the cost. Offspring were amazed that Dad could learn anything, much less how to fly.
Got to agree with Mattp. As a career civilian, having gotten to do that very thing several times I consider close to the greatest privileges of my life. And quite a few hours (for a civilian, very few for a pilot – about 20 total) dancing with clouds in an F-4, mostly as ballast, but it’s fun when you don’t have to worry about the driving, too. But as for your private, that first time your instructor tells you to make a full stop, he jumps out and then tells you with not warning that it’s time to take it alone…well, I can’t ever describe it – I’ve tried and failed many times to describe it in words – but you just may well forever look back on it as the finest moment in your life.
Unfortunately, I can’t afford to fly in this part of the country, and don’t think I’d have much fun in a Citabria amongst this Northeast Corridor air traffic. Guess I’m gonna have to go back to Texas where you can do aerobatics along the beach and have no air traffic at your altitude for a hundred miles around.
One more thing: I just noticed where you live. OK, now for the next year until you start your PPL training, repeat these words fifty times a day: pitot deicer, carb heat.
TOM
Single engine commercial instrument rating (no CFI). Actually soloed out of Ford Island in Hawaii.
Also have my single engine helo rating with a turbine transition. The turbine transition was in a Hughes 500D. I’m so far out of currency right now on the rotor rating that It would probably take me a month to get back into it…to dang expensive. Olus, my primary training was in a Hughes 300C. I just don’t like the feel of the T-bar in the R-22. Just my opinion.
I have my Commercial Helicopter w/Instrument, and got my SEL/MEL 2 years ago. Cobrahistorian, you know after slapping the skies at Rucker, all you have to do is take your Military Equivalency and a quick jaunt up to Birmingham at Flight Standards and you get your Commercial licence. ITs just a signoff. And after that you need about 24 flight hours to get your PPL in SEL, because some requirements (like the FAA written) are waived.
Scott,
I’d actually heard that. Was planning on looking into it further, since I’m gonna be looking for other employment unless I get a full-time slot with the 104th.
Keepin my fingers crossed!
Airplane, single engine, land, instrument airplane since about 1980 but inactive for many years. As others have said, it’s a feeling like no other in the world and one you have to experience to understand.