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02-02-2008, 08:49 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Shepherdsville, KY
Posts: 280
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Originally Posted by RickWoodall
I laugh when i look back on my training and how long it really took. At the start the club gives you info on how long it takes, how many hours min etc. Funny, i am either the dumbest guy around...or those are a mere fraction of the total cost and they figure the lure of the 40hr ticket will get people hooked and then they will find the funds to keep going. Hopefully you are a good hands and feet guy, pick up some good info from the King kit, do lots of reading and homework and move along quickly. When I look back...something like the king kit would have been well worth the cost.
Hopefuly you have a good CFI, who isnt just trying to build hours (his) on your dime. There are some incredible instructors and lots of dogs....good luck and work hard. Its worth it. I look back at my hours required and would say 10-15 were a complete waste....yes I still flew and learned some...but they werent "productive" in the sense that I really understood the mission that day, paid close attention, preped for it, comprehended the reason and details and nailed it. Good luck, stick with it....however long it takes and earn your wings.
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Rick is right, stick with it no matter how long it takes to earn you wings. It only took me 29 years to get mine. Started when I returned from Vietnam July 1974 - passed my check ride 19 Feb 2004. Heck my student pilot training spanned 2 different centuries. Life got in the way. I have them now, and holding on with a death grip. I'm sure that I set some kind of record as the LONGEST student pilot.
Mike H 9A/8A
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02-02-2008, 09:12 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: KSLC
Posts: 4,021
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Originally Posted by mike109g6
It only took me 29 years to get mine. Started when I returned from Vietnam July 1974 - passed my check ride 19 Feb 2004. Heck my student pilot training spanned 2 different centuries. Life got in the way. I have them now, and holding on with a death grip. I'm sure that I set some kind of record as the LONGEST student pilot.
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Yep,..... you beat me.  1968-1994 (only 26 years). Marriage & five kids in between.
L.Adamson -- RV6A
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02-02-2008, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Hicks Airfield, Fort Worth,Texas
Posts: 1,728
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licence PPL
My brother Jim, Bought a C150 in 1984 for $9500 found a retired guy to give him lessons for almost free. Used car gas. Did one 'owner assist' 'Annual Inspection, had to replace one cylinder. He got his licence for right at $1000 total in 1984 $. After selling the Cessna for $9500.
I know lack of money is not an excuse for putting off your PPL, RV build, ect. It is the WILL to get it done. If you let things get in your way they must be more important.
Good luck to you. I hope the money dosen't run out. If it does, I hope you will find a way.
Cheers
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Jay Pratt VAF #2
RV Central - Builder Assistance
Paul Revere, Borrowed Horse, & Shooter
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02-02-2008, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Hubbard Oregon
Posts: 9,035
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Originally Posted by Jaypratt
My brother Jim, Bought a C150 in 1984 for $9500 found a retired guy to give him lessons for almost free. Used car gas. Did one 'owner assist' 'Annual Inspection, had to replace one cylinder. He got his licence for right at $1000 total in 1984 $. After selling the Cessna for $9500.
I know lack of money is not an excuse for putting off your PPL, RV build, ect. It is the WILL to get it done. If you let things get in your way they must be more important.
Good luck to you. I hope the money dosen't run out. If it does, I hope you will find a way.
Cheers
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I believe the way Jay just described for getting a license is bar none the best way possible now adays.
As long as you buy an airplane at a price it is really worth, you will not loose money on it (and often you will sell it for more than you paid when your training is finished).
I know of many instances were a couple, three, (one time even four guys) pooled there money, and bought an inexpensive (read that as not very pretty), but airworthy Champ, etc. to use for flight training. They then find a retired age flight instructor who has experience in the type of airplane they own, and who teaches for the love of teaching (and to make a few exra bucks of course). This is a perfect instructor choice. He is not using you to build his own flight hours or to fill out the balance on his biweekly paycheck.
All the students fly the airplane for little cost other than fuel and a little for maint., plus what ever the instructor charges them for dual.
When everyone is done, sell the airplane, everyone gets their orig. investment back, and sometimes a couple of the partners have gone on to develope a partnership in a different airplane.
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Hubbard, Oregon
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02-02-2008, 08:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,692
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You got me by a couple of months
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Originally Posted by mike109g6
It only took me 29 years to get mine. Started when I returned from Vietnam July 1974 - passed my check ride 19 Feb 2004
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29 years for me too. 1975 to 2004. You have the honors by a few months over me. Never let my EAA membership slide though. I always had that mag in the living room to feed my habit.
The "life change" happened during a traffic jamb from **LL just south of DC on the way to NC. My wife said "why don't you finish your license". I was at the local FBO the following Saturday. 
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RV-7A: Flying since April 15, 2012. 850 hrs
YIO-360-M1B, mags, CS, GRT EX and WS H1s & A/P, Navworx
Unpainted, polished....kinda'... Eyeballin' vinyl really hard.
Yeah. The boss got a Silhouette Cameo 4 Xmas 2019.
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02-03-2008, 11:27 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: STL/3K6
Posts: 399
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I went for my check ride with 40.1 after flying the previous day for .7 and no reason other than to get that .7. Money was an issue and I remember hitting my last TnG right on the clock and parking to get that .7 hrs.
How did I do it, easy. I wanted to fly for 10 years before I found the time and money at the SAME time. I watched my Sporty's videos, read "Complete Private Pilot" by Gardner???, and flew the heck out of MS Flight Sim all the way to instrument and commercial ratings on the sim. I did that mostly for fun as I waited for the right time to come. By the time I started flight training for real there was VERY little the CFI had to TEACH me. He just kept me from killing myself as I translated all my book and sim training to real life.
I don't say this to brag one little bit, I say it because I think most people start training with WAY too little prep before hand. If you want to spend a lot of money and time to get a PPL just show up expecting the CFI to teach you how to fly. If you want to do it in minimal time and money just read a decent book 3-5 times and watch the videos 3-5 times. That'll knock 20 hours off the national average of ~60 for most people.
I got my PPL in 2001 for around 3k with a 152 @42 and CFI @20 at Meachum in Ft Worth. DFW seems to still have the cheapest rates in the country if you shop around a bit.
Congrats on starting your training and welcome to the club almost. Keep at it and keep reading, you'll be done before you know it.  
As far as money goes, it might be worth a week of vacation and a road trip to some place with cheaper planes. They won't be pretty but paint isn't what makes'em fly anyway. Even if you don't finish you can knock out most of it and save some $$.
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02-05-2008, 10:12 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kingwood
Posts: 80
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Thanks
Thanks for the kind words and encouragment. I am a life long student also, letting life get in the way!!! NOT this time it wont. grrrrr. Get out of the way!!!!!!!!!! grrrrrr!

McStealth
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