I just keep very current and have read all the coursework up to ATP pilot. So I'm good on the ground stuff. Flying is just so expensive, I'd rather wait until I can actually purchase a Cessna (which I hope is in my forties) to really get into it. Maybe get my IFR.

(as I don't even have that). It's just so cost prohibitive to do all this if you have no plans to be a pilot as a career. I should have just got a sport pilot. But then I only like the bigger planes. I hate flying in a two seater. You are literally arm to arm with the person next to you in a tiny box.

It's fun though. Nothing better than sightseeing the coast or the bayous in a plane. And working out of class D and B airspace helped a lot with radio skills and patterns.

It could still be hypoxia. I actually hope for the pilots and passengers it was an accident.

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Posted by sugar71

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Posted on 3/20/14 at 7:16 pm to Napoleon

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Yes with a whopping 87 hours total flight time.
50 of that training..

I just keep very current and have read all the coursework up to ATP pilot. So I'm good on the ground stuff. Flying is just so expensive, I'd rather wait until I can actually purchase a Cessna (which I hope is in my forties) to really get into it. Maybe get my IFR.

(as I don't even have that). It's just so cost prohibitive to do all this if you have no plans to be a pilot as a career. I should have just got a sport pilot. But then I only like the bigger planes. I hate flying in a two seater. You are literally arm to arm with the person next to you in a tiny box.

Flying has also fascinated me as well, but as you said unless one is well off or training for a career I can never justify the expense..........

Maybe buying /sharing a plane with someone else or other like-minded recreational pilots could help with expenses ?

I had casually researched the idea in the past, but this whole ordeal has me considering it again. I can afford the training , but then what? Where the hell would I even fly to?It's not like I have several homes to hop around to.

Buy the way I hear there was only a 2 minute time lapse between last radio communication(1:21 am) & transponder being turned off(1:19).

Maybe he was in trouble(unknowingly) & that explains the you usually brief sign instead of the crisp & robotic exchange(giving flight I'D numbers ,identification,etc....)

I got to go to work. I'll convince you guys tomorrow.

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