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re: I'd like to learn to fly a plane and get a license.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:35 pm to Penrod
Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:35 pm to Penrod
Where do you live in Georgia? I am making plans to eventually get my pilpts license at Lanier Airport in Gainesville, GA. I won't entertain flying solo until I complete the instrument rating portion of licensure.
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Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:38 pm to muttenstein
1. Find a local flying club or flight school and see if they offer discovery flights.
Usually you pay for a 30-min “sight-seeing” flight around your hometown and the instructor will let you control the plane in the air for a while. You’ll get to experience what it’s like to control a single-engine piece of machinery about 3000’ in the air.
After that, the instructor will ask if you want to pursue your private pilot license and will discuss ways you can do so and at what cost.
Just know going in, flying is an expensive hobby. It’s very hard work, but it’s an incredibly rewarding freedom and the payoff is well worth it.
You have to meet certain minimums to get to the check ride portion of your training. Pass the check ride and you’ll be a private pilot. This allows you to check out airplanes and fly whenever/wherever you want (weather pending, of course).
Pro tip: If you decide to go trough with training, try several instructors. I’ve had shitty instructors just trying to build flight hours for the airlines, and I’ve had instructors who really care about making me a better pilot. Shop around until you find one that fits.
Usually you pay for a 30-min “sight-seeing” flight around your hometown and the instructor will let you control the plane in the air for a while. You’ll get to experience what it’s like to control a single-engine piece of machinery about 3000’ in the air.
After that, the instructor will ask if you want to pursue your private pilot license and will discuss ways you can do so and at what cost.
Just know going in, flying is an expensive hobby. It’s very hard work, but it’s an incredibly rewarding freedom and the payoff is well worth it.
You have to meet certain minimums to get to the check ride portion of your training. Pass the check ride and you’ll be a private pilot. This allows you to check out airplanes and fly whenever/wherever you want (weather pending, of course).
Pro tip: If you decide to go trough with training, try several instructors. I’ve had shitty instructors just trying to build flight hours for the airlines, and I’ve had instructors who really care about making me a better pilot. Shop around until you find one that fits.
This post was edited on 3/15/23 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:42 pm to muttenstein
Im not a pilot so take anything I say with a grain of salt. But I just happened to run across this on YouTube the other day. It tells you how you can get a certain kind of pilot's license with just 10 hours flight time. IIRC, the cost was about $3k.
Learn to Fly This in 10 HOURS - Yes, really
There are several videos on YT about the process and cost people went through to get their license. Here is one.
Getting Your Private Pilot's License // Full Process Start to Finish
Learn to Fly This in 10 HOURS - Yes, really
There are several videos on YT about the process and cost people went through to get their license. Here is one.
Getting Your Private Pilot's License // Full Process Start to Finish
Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:45 pm to IAmNERD
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What is this 3rd class medical certificate you must possess along with the age and English language requirements to start most of these training programs?
Every pilot needs three things on their person when flying and acting as PIC:
1. A valid government issued photo ID
2. A valid pilots licence
3. A valid medical certificate (class depends on type of certificate exercised)
So you will need to obtain a 3rd-class medical and a student pilots license before your first solo.
Your instructor will tell you how to find an aviation medical examiner for the medical (basically a phisical) and will walk you through the steps of obtaining your license.
The English Proficiency requirement doesn’t really apply, unless you don’t speak English. The reason for this, is it’s the universal language used between pilots and ATC.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:49 pm to muttenstein
1st..Go get your physical exam...2nd Locate a flight school Cessna 152 or 172...that will get you in the right direction.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:51 pm to TutHillTiger
Flying is an exclusion on most life insurance policies
Posted on 3/15/23 at 7:54 pm to IAmNERD
La tech
Or go to a small airfield and they have programs
Or go to a small airfield and they have programs
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:01 pm to nicholastiger
I found this to be bad advice. Once you take the discovery flight, you are going to want to fly all the time and then will have to force yourself to do the ground school. Do the written and ground before you fly and get hooked.
Small flight schools are typically the ones that will string you along the most. I would look for an instructor who is retired or is a career instructor. Lots are just building hours to go to the bigs. I was my instructors first student. He was terrible.
Small flight schools are typically the ones that will string you along the most. I would look for an instructor who is retired or is a career instructor. Lots are just building hours to go to the bigs. I was my instructors first student. He was terrible.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:08 pm to muttenstein
Used to cost me like $60 an hour for the plane with gas. And extra $40 for the instructor... But I bet it's like $90 for the plane and gas now...
But that was a long long time ago it seems...
But that was a long long time ago it seems...
This post was edited on 3/15/23 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:09 pm to IAmNERD
First class is for commercial pilots who have hundreds of lives in their hands. Second class is acceptable for commercial pilots who are second in command. Third class is for schmucks like me.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:11 pm to WWII Collector
quote:It was $135 for plane and instructor for me about 15 years ago. This was at Gulf Coast Aviation at KNEW
Used to cost me like $60 an hour for the plane with gas. And extra $40 for the instructor... But I bet it's like $90 for the plane and gas now.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:13 pm to muttenstein
In school? Live near an airstrip? Start with ground school. I did the online kingschool and didn’t have any trouble with my knowledge exam. Just understand many instructors are just trying to build hours to get their commercial license and are paying off their instructor school. Don’t get stuck with one that’s trying to milk you.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:16 pm to The Boat
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No shite, when a couple of the hijackers showed up to flight school they said they "wanted to learn how to fly Boeings".
That was before they even sat behind the controls of a Cessna. Seems like a red flag that should have been reported.
It WAS reported, BOAT. And it was way worse than that. They did not want to learn to land. The flight school in Belle Glade Florida reported it to the FBI a couple of times. The FBI did nothing. Know why? Because they are typical lazy federal employees.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:16 pm to 0x15E
What exactly is this “medical” y’all keep referencing?
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:25 pm to muttenstein
Obviously there is only one person qualified to speak on pilot matters and airplanes and such
Olewarskule
Olewarskule
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:28 pm to pilsnerpusher
quote:Agreed.
Too soon
Sorry.
Seriously
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:40 pm to S
A flight physician will certify you as being healthy enough to fly. At some point you will be solo.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:42 pm to Penrod
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Third class is for schmucks like me.
You can also fly under Basic Med without getting the third class medical which is what I do.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:42 pm to S
quote:
What exactly is this “medical” y’all keep referencing?
It’s just a physical that all pilots must receive by an aviation medical examiner in order to exercise the privileges of their pilot’s license.
There are three “classes.” First class is mainly for airline pilots and other airline transport categories. Second class medicals are needed for most commercial pilot operations. Third class medicals are required for private pilots and flight instructors.
There are expiration limits on medicals and depending on your age you may have to go more often to be checked out.
For example, if you are under 40 and get a 3rd class medical, it expires after 60 months. The guys flying the big planes have first class medicals and if they are over 40 they have to get a new one every 6 months.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:48 pm to muttenstein
EAsiest and most adventurous way to do it is to just drive out to a local county airport and stop in at one of the general aviation places that are there. Ask around, they'll be glad to point you in the right direction and probably know a good instructor nearby.
I earned muy private pilot license with about fifty hours of flight time logged. (Only needed forty to go for your check ride, but I don't know anyone who was ready right at forty hours.) I spent a tad less than $2200 for ground school, instructed flight time, and solo time. Of course, back then in the 80s, a Cessna 152 could be had for an hour "wet" for $35.00. I don't believe there's ever be a time when it's that inexpensive to fly yourself around ever again.
It's not a cheap hobby, but it sure was fun! Then I got into my thirties and got married. I've still got my fly fishing and my little boat to putter around the Chattahoochee, but flying and scuba are memories of a distant past now that I'm in my mid-fifties. Do it while you're young and have that urge to live every moment! The only thing you'll ever regret is NOT doing it.
And, as has been mentioned above - get the ground school out of the way as quickly as possible. You will definitely want to be spending more time in the air than in the books.
3rd Class Med Certificate isn't difficult to obtain. They just want to make sure you're not going to have a heart attack while you're flying and that your color vision is good.
I earned muy private pilot license with about fifty hours of flight time logged. (Only needed forty to go for your check ride, but I don't know anyone who was ready right at forty hours.) I spent a tad less than $2200 for ground school, instructed flight time, and solo time. Of course, back then in the 80s, a Cessna 152 could be had for an hour "wet" for $35.00. I don't believe there's ever be a time when it's that inexpensive to fly yourself around ever again.
It's not a cheap hobby, but it sure was fun! Then I got into my thirties and got married. I've still got my fly fishing and my little boat to putter around the Chattahoochee, but flying and scuba are memories of a distant past now that I'm in my mid-fifties. Do it while you're young and have that urge to live every moment! The only thing you'll ever regret is NOT doing it.
And, as has been mentioned above - get the ground school out of the way as quickly as possible. You will definitely want to be spending more time in the air than in the books.
3rd Class Med Certificate isn't difficult to obtain. They just want to make sure you're not going to have a heart attack while you're flying and that your color vision is good.
This post was edited on 3/15/23 at 8:53 pm
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