First flight today

[Pootie 10+ year member]

yeah its really fun and im glad about the good pay. flight school made a dent in my money saved up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

How much is flight school (roughly)? How long does it take?

 

[Steven206Seattl 10+ year member]

Spin training is fun, circuits arnt that bad ether, sounds like your probably on straight and level / climbs if this is your 3rd flight.
Where you flying out of?

Yeah pretty much just basics right now. And im flying out of a club in oak harbor on whidbey island that is on a navy base. Its on NAS Whidbey

 

[Steven206Seattl 10+ year member]

did you have trouble with the pedals?

Yeah the pedals were a little hard in the air( but you barely use them in the air) and taxing was a little tricky at first because theyre pretty sensitive. The only problem i had with the pedals mostly was when you push for example the left you have to take your foot off the right and I wouldnt do that at first so id keep pushing harder and harder.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Kid I went to school flys for a major airline company. Name not coming to me. He was pretty young as well. Mid 20's IIRC when he started for the airline company. Makes pretty good money too. Good luck with it.

 

[Steven206Seattl 10+ year member]

Once you get enough hours to get your CFI and have about 300 hours under your belt, get your *** to a Cessna 182 dropzone and become a diver-driver flying skydiving loads. The pay is almost non-existent, but we had one of our guys get 1000 hours in a year, move up to turbines (Super-Otter, Cessna Caravan) and he's a captain for Continental right now flying a smaller regional jet.

Yeah i was thinking something like that or do tours around the islands around here. Anything that will get me a lot of hours fast even on low pay because the faster I get into bigger planes then the faster money will come.

 

[Steven206Seattl 10+ year member]

How much is flight school (roughly)? How long does it take?

Im not too sure yet on how much it is going to cost for me. I think it might depend on where you live too. I know its cheaper for me because its on our navy base. Im not sure how many flights ill be doing before i get my license but a flight of about 1.5 hours costed 151 dollars. Thats with gas, plane and an instructor. After 15 hours you do flights by your self and im not too sure if that means i wont have to pay instructor fees.