Sport Pilot Talk

OK, so I had my second lesson in the Evektor on Wednesday. I left my house at 7:15am and made it to the airport around 9. We begin with the preflight. Left side looks good, Tail looks good, moving over to the right side. Take a look underneath and look over at the left main gear. "Ummm, should ...

The hardest thing about switching for me is getting a feeling for where everything is. I had the Skycatcher in MS FSX so I was able to study where everything was well before I even had my first lesson. The first time looking at the instrument cluster in the Evektor felt like I was a bind man and som...

I had my lesson on Sunday in Allentown and I was very happy with how it went, and Art seems like a great instructor. The Evektor handled much differently than the Skycatcher and I had a great time. The nose wheel steering made it MUCH easier to taxi than the free castering nose wheel on the Cessna. ...

FastEddieB wrote:

3Dreaming wrote:

tdubs wrote:
Or eat them!

Either way, problem solved!

Hahahahaha, I didn't want to be the one to say it. My wife might find these postings one day

Whatever it is today, it will double 2 or 3 times by the time your kid goes to college. If it's $15,000 per year now, it will be $60,000 to $100,000 per year by then. Health care cost will be another killer (pun intended) regardless of what plan we have, Democrat, Republican, or whatever. If I was ...

When I took a look today the annual in-state tuition was $14,600. I have been searching online for daycare cost and almost everyone says "call us", I assume to keep anyone from passing out at their keyboards. I found one place near my wife's job that posts their tuition; $1380/month!!! The...

For a long time I considered sending my three kids to one of those Sally Struthers countries where they could get fed for $0.50 a day. :lol: :lol: :lol: I told my wife we should just buy a second house and offer free housing to someone in exchange to childcare. At least then we would be building eq...

TimTaylor wrote:Learning to fly is an irrational and emotional decision. But, it's fun.

Can't agree with you more there. I'm so excited to finally be able to go back up tomorrow after being on the ground for the last two months.

Thanks Paul, I really appreciate the kind words! I'm encouraged to hear that others have had success getting back in the air after a long hiatus. I wanted to make sure I wasn't being delusional in thinking I could do that and making an irrational and emotional decision to continue training based on ...

Right now I'm using the Gleim online test prep. When I do practice tests there is usually an option to resize the image. I'll try to find a screen shot when I get to work. I have heard some suggest using the scale at the bottom of the image that shows distance and marking scrap paper with the scale ...

Thanks rcpilot, I did check out Lakewood, but I'm not sure if they have time in their schedule for me right now. I had my initial lesson scheduled and when the day came I called before heading out I was forgotten about and no one was available for the lesson. He said he would call back the next day ...

Thanks for the congrats and advice everyone. I have no idea what I just got myself into :-) I think I'm gonna go for it. I guess we'll see how this goes on Sunday at AB Flight. XLL is just outside of this dreaded TFR that seems to be a weekly occurrence so I'm hopeful for that. I think maybe I'll tr...

We've had a budget for quite a while. It was one of the first things I did 5 years ago when we were expecting, and even though things didn't work out, the budget was one of the best things that came out of that for us. It's probably the only reason we were able to save up to buy a house a few years ...

So I called up AB Flight in Allentown a few days ago and set up a lesson for Sunday. It looks like they do their training in an Evektor Sportstar. I'm excited. The weather looks promising and I'm looking forward to getting back into the air.I haven't been up since July There's just one thing... I go...

Thanks for the heads up. From looking over that form I don't have any problems. I did speak to an HIMS AME off the record and confirmed what he told me with an email to the AOPA, and from what they told me I would have a lot of hoops to jump through. My case would be an automatic deferral, and I don...