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Old 10-15-2006, 09:56 PM
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Another round of thanks to this forum, and to all who have replied. With words of encouragement and solidarity that could make a chick flick proud , I will at least finish the King DVD PPL course that I have and see where that leads. Maybe it will get me motivated more so than I am now.

Thanks everybody!

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Old 10-15-2006, 11:08 PM
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My favorite saying is:

"90% of the things people say they can't do, they never tried".

You don't build an airplane to save money, you do it for the satisfaction of doing something 99% of the population never tried. Plus, all your friends think you've lost your mind.

Bob
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Old 10-16-2006, 11:36 PM
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Default Others have said it more eloquently, but my $.02...

...is to go for it. I'm late to the thread, but as a guy that soloed at 19 and finally finished up my PPL this summer at 41, I can tell you my biggest regret is in not doing it sooner. Call it a mid-life crisis, the drive to get my non-pilot dad up with me to see the Mississippi country side before his vision is completely lost to macular degeneration, or just the ache that hit when I heard the buzz of an engine overhead and thought, "Man, I'd love to be up there." For any of those and many other reasons, I stopped saying "some day" and made it a reality.
College, marriage, family, and work throughout those 22 intervening years - everything was a good or great excuse to not get it done. But the dream didn't die, and now that I have my "license to learn", I'm passing on the dream to my boys. Maybe they'll be like the young man that posted earlier in the thread and have their PPLs by the time they're 17. Maybe not, but the option will be there for them to the degree that I can encourage them and help.
To the extent you can, prioritize the budget. Eat tuna fish, PB&J, and mac & cheese. Do whatever it takes to throw the spare change into the "flying jar" every chance you get. You'll get there. I finally got my dad in the air in early August. When we landed and that tough old fart just looked at me with a hint of a tear in his eye and smiled, it was worth every penny.
With all this said, I'm probably going to have to put my flying on hold for a while for a one-year trip to the sand box for my Uncle - but I'll take my off-duty time to refine my RV-10 building plans . Again, go for it, Mcstealth. And let us know when you knock out that King course.
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Old 10-17-2006, 05:39 AM
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...is to go for it............I finally got my dad in the air in early August. When we landed and that tough old fart just looked at me with a hint of a tear in his eye and smiled.
I know exactly what you mean. When I finally took my elderly dad for his first light plane flight with me at the controls he was wide eyed and completely awed, taking in everything. He pointed to a single small cloud hanging alone in the sky above and asked "Can we go there?" At 7000 feet, I knew it would take some time and considerable effort for my little C-150 to eventually get us there but finally, it did. As we cruised around and around that perfect summer-time cloud my dad turned to me with a grin on his face and shouted above the cabin din, "I can die now, because I've seen heaven." Nothing will ever come close to replacing that exceedingly rare moment in my life.
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