Any Pilots in here?
 

Well I just hit 1000 hours this morning on a nice trip from Vancouver -> Victoria.

Anyone else fly?

Helicopters. 150 hours.
Woa, 1000 impresses me, how old are you?

mid 20's ;)
Yeah I fly quite a bit, only as a hobby though.. I once had a job flying commuters from whistler-> Vancouver in a King Air

Racked up quite a bit of hours doing that ;)

I'm going to be getting my float rating in September.

venus does

I've owned 3 planes but i havent flown in a while.

do you own any right now?
What type were they?

No, I sold them all right before I moved to Vegas

I had a 1967 Piper Cherokee 140, a Pulsar and a Glasair I

My friend is. He has a shit load of hours. I give you guys mad props for doing what you do. I go co-pilot with him and it's pretty crazy on what you guys go through. Sitting in the back of a regular airliner you have no clue on whats really going on in those thunder storms. But he made me respect pilots a lot more. Congrats on your hours.

thanks man ;)
it's really fun to scare the shit out of people as well.. doing spirals in a 172 and your passenger is scared of flying = priceless

yes im a prick

yeah.

PP, SEL, about 2200tt, hi perf, taildragger endorsements.

aircraft owner for 19 years.

So whats the perfect 8 - 10 seater plane to own. All I know are the kingairs.

Any ideas.

the perfect? or the best?

what's your budget?

the Cessna Caravan sure is nice

yep - got my commercial pilot licens at Crystal river Aero Group Florida. It's a small navy related privat academy - great people, great place and great times

I never got the ticket, but I can fly pretty much anything up to turbo props. My old man was a CFI-II and I grew up flying with him. We had a Pitts, a couple cessnas, a cherokee and my uncle had a King Air 350. I've probably got a few hundred hours flying, but none on any books and no license.

I've always wanted to fly...
 

I've always wanted to fly but the best I can do so far is flight simulation. I don't have the money, or frankly the time, to go though flying lessons. Well, if I had the money, I'd make the time, but it's on my life's TO-DO list.

As far as flight simulation, you can get hooked up with Microsoft Flight Simulator (or X-Plane) and then see VATSIM for flying online with real-time traffic control. Lots of commercial pilots (and home enthusiasts too) on there, so it makes the flying both realistic and good for n00bs to get into it too. There are also virtual airlines that you can fly for too. IE: American Flight Airways. It's certainly fun, and the hobby can be as cheap as buying MSFS (since VATSIM is all free utils to run) or buying a whole bunch of outboard equipment (not only joysticks, but also outboard mounted gauges, fully modeled aircraft and satellite photo scenery). Lots of resources out there.

Safe skies! :thumbsup

it's not that expensive to get your PPL it's about 4grand cradle to grave

From what i read in pilot's magazines, it seems more like 10-15k...

if you go to a fancy "academy" that promises you a job after blah blah blah

for your simple PPL and mountain rating+night rating it's about 5K for everything
4K without the night rating,

You also need a nice head set which is about $800 for a BOSE X which is what I recommend

One of my business partners has his pilots license. He's only had one close call.

I'm not a big fan of small planes. I like helicopters but had one get some engine trouble once and it dipped to the side suddenly and it started making this shaking fucked up sound. Luckily the pilot did some maneuvering and adjustments and it was a shaky on the ride down and the landing was rough but we got out fine.

I've been wanting to get my PPL for quite some time now. (Years) When I had the money I didn't have the time and when I have the time I don't have the money! lol

I think I may start this summer, at least get a intro flight at the local FBO. It's been a dream of mine since I was 15, but I forgot about it for a few years...

working on my private now

oh and 71 hrs

Ahh.. that sounds much better. I would like to get IFR certified, too, but that can wait :) I'll have to go down to KSCK and see if they offer anything.

true, cheapest way to learn to fly is at a small country airport that rents cessna 150 series aircraft---national average for PP is about 60 hrs, so if you get a time-builder CFI you can probably get done for less than 5K.

BTW, there is no such thing as a "night" rating or "mountain" rating in PP.

also you can check into the new sport pilot certification which is even less expensive, but you are very limited in the type of plane you can fly.

sure there is.. I have both of them.. this is true for americans though. The Canadian program is a lot tougher, You are REQUIRED to have 15 hours of IFR (last time I checked) and pass a test with a hood on. Which is a lot better IMO.

This is nice but these two words scare me.

74 Cessna

Whats the next step up.
Can you get anything for about a million bucks thats nice and has a good track record.

sorry, i was referring only to USA FAA.

and good for you. mountain flying is a whole other ball game. :thumbsup

it's fine, planes engines are rebuilt all the time... they are not like cars the whole thing has to be overhauled and rebuilt and certified. The only difference is the look/engine power.

sure is it's fun though, I frequently fly from Vancouver -> Calgary over the Rockies it's quite a nice trip.

That's what my pilot friend says too, so I guess I have to believe you both. :thumbsup

Grew up with planes, my father is a retired fighter pilot and we owned at various times a cesna, a cherokee and a mooney super 21 I think it was called (that rocked).

I took lessons in my 20's and quit the day before I was to solo, frankly I sucked at it, hit a wing on the runway practicing crosswind landings and probably would have killed myself.

KC is a pilot. I'll bump the thread and hopefully he'll see it :) I want to take lessons. Right now it's not in the budget but I'd love to learn to fly!!

thats alot of hours, congrats

we recently sold our plane, trading up to a twin. Had a turbo arrow III, working on getting a Baron now.

We flew that Arrow all over, longest was from Vegas to Louisville, Ky and back.
this was from the trip, somewhere over Oklahoma
http://www.landofvenus.com/dance/clouds.jpg

Awesome pic.

I took a couple of lessons but in Europe it's soo fucking expensive.
PPL is like 15.000 euro that's about $18.000
So i decided to save up some money and go to canada for a month....even cheaper than the stats, i've heard.

There's nothing to compare to it being all alone in the big sky

I have about 1500 hours, all just screwing around, and making sure that I was firmly in the mile high club. But have not flown myself in some time. Now we have someone fly us.

Bose are over rated, I have a set of DC clarks (the kind they use in all the movies it seems) and my husband has a set of Lightspeed 30G's

thanks, we got tons of them :)
this was flying into the LA area, this is approaching Lake Arrowhead

http://www.landofvenus.com/dance/lake.jpg

and this was flying out of Vegas to Utah

http://www.landofvenus.com/dance/vegas.jpg

Wow! You still have them?

Got my VFR when I was 16. Was the only kid in high school with a pilot's license. It was a great way to ask girls out.

"So... do you want to go flying?"