PPL-ASEL

100 hrs total time. What's yours? Got pictures of your steed?

Congrats on the PPL. I started flying in 1964 while I was in high school, then took 30-plus years off to get an education, get married three times (Ouch!), and change careers four times.

I currently have a little over 1700 hours, with Commercial SMEL, SES, and Instrument tickets. I am also a CFI/CFII. I own a Beech Bonanza (N35) and it is a real joy to fly. I am scheduled for my ATP check ride next month. No - I won't be looking for an airline job, just cheaper insurance.

It does conflict with model flying. If the weather is nice enough to fly the Bonanza, it's also nice enough to fly my models. I have had to work some schedule issues this past year so I can do both. The current plan is to move to Arizona and teach flying when I retire.

Ron King

LAST EDITED ON Jan-14-04 AT 00:07 AM (CDT)
 
This is my 6th and current plane. It has earned the name of the "BEAST" because of the smoke and noise. If I can find some digital pics of some of the other planes I'll post them. I have pics of many planes I have flown but they are not all on the computer. As of the end of 2003 I'm over 8500 hrs.

Congrats,

ASEL, instrument rated. I have around 250 hours logged over the course of 25 years (some big gaps in there). Last plane I checked out in was this Tobago, down in Australia. (The Victor 1 Harbour Scenic route is awesome.)

PPL-ASEL,14 yrs.ago. TT about 800 hrs, half of it cross country.Own a C-172 Skyhawk as well as half interest in a Piper PA-151 Warrior.Had same problem deciding big or little plane-flying, so I retired. No more problem. Wife has to work for next 100 yrs. though.

greedy

Geez Dave, now ya did it!

I'm non-current SEL Instrument rated TT about 500 hours. Learned while I was in Naval Air.

Here's where we now spend alot on airfoils.

Freedom is all kevlar, glass and epoxy. Foils are Kevlar mylar.
Transatlantic crossing 4 times, Bermuda 1-2, Cstar, SORC winnerr etc. A cool machine.

ASEL, Instrument, just under 1000 hours. Commercial rating in process. Flying since January, 1990, mostly in my Cherokee N4593F, which inspired the "Little Cherokee" in the picture.
Bob Z

LAST EDITED ON Feb-10-04 AT 02:32 PM (CDT)
 
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Piper Cherokee 140 (PA-28)

Had 14 hours in one of these when I was still a HS kid. Soloed on July 20, 1969 (same day Neil Armstrong soloed on Tranquility Base). Ran out of $$, airport sold, bulldozed and is now a shopping center.

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Cessna T-37A "Tweety Bird"

Only had 45 minutes in a tweet like this. I was an AFROTC cadet. They got us up @ 0400 and flew us down from McChord to Mather AFB for our orientation rides. I was the last one up and got the longest ride. My 20-35 vision precluded any "professional" flying career - military or civilian.

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Tanzer 22 # 938

I won the 1976 GHYC LeMans race in my little Tanzer. Beat 40 other yachts including Weatherly - the 1962 America's Cup winner. Did it with an all-female crew as well. Ah, those *were* the good old days.

Soloed on 16th birthday, never got a PPL. Eventually got Navy Air, flew the S-3 Viking (can see the outside of one in the pic while I'm on cat 3 of the Carl Vinson), then A-4's as an instructor.

I'm in the front of 767 in the top pic, second pic is just coming over the ramp, can barely make out a centered ball (got the 3 wire!), third pic is same flight but just before getting shot.

Congrats on your license!

Tools

LAST EDITED ON Feb-10-04 AT 06:00 PM (CDT)
 
Just getting started after a 40 year career with insulin dependent diabetes. A pancreas tranplant two years ago made me insulin-free and I got my SI 3rd class last fall. Got in six hours of dual before the holidays and the weather clamped down. My dad held a PPL and my brother is an inactive PPL. Gotta say a good word for the EAA and its Aeromedical Advisory Committee for playing such a large role in getting the FAA to see the light about this kind of license. BTW, the Sport Pilot initiative is in the last laps before becoming a reality. In you want to sport fly light day VFR birds for fun, and save a lot of $$, this will be the way to go. And the SP hours will count toward a PPL.

BTW, really enjoy the pics of everyone's ships. I grew up around Cherokees, and who can help but like the Bonanza?

Neat stuff,
I am an airline brat so I had a couple hundred hours when I got my private. I soloed when I was 16 (on my birthday) but flew around for at least 2 years on my solo certificate. I got my private and commercial a few months apart. It was all down hill after the Twin Beech's, DC-3's and B-25. Now it's jets. Just jets.

Well there is the Pitts Special. Thsi is my second one, an S-1D with an HO-360, here turning about 3250 at 190 true into pylon 4 at Reno, 1999.

Ahhh... The S1-D. One of the best Negitive snapping planes I have ever had the pleasure to fly. Although I never raced My S1-S, I did get the low profile canopy off of "Legal Eagle" and put it on. Picked up around 5 knots. Loved that plane. It was the 1st plane I bought after getting my PPL. (3 months)

bunch of millionaires

leon99:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.........

I grew up in the front seat of a Great Lakes and, later, a Starduster Too. Both aerobatic planes. I always assumed I'd always have a plane. However, I grew up and financial realities set in. I did build an ultralight and fly it for a few years, but had to sell it for money (of course, less than I had in it). I occassionally get current and rent a Cessna, but most years I don't fly at all anymore.