Random13
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I am from Ohio so this info helps. Was suspecting winter gliding in this region was somewhat nonexistent
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Off the golden path career path and transitioning between aircraft type
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Random13
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Honestly right now a major reason for wanting to learn to fly is for fun, but also to see if flying really is for me. I would like to in an ideal world take a flight lesson in a helicopter just to see what that is like after earning my SEL PPL. Man this got way more responses than I expected, thanks airwarrior community!
Just go do a discovery flight or two at a local flight school and see if you have fun. Usually cheap. I too would advise against coming out of pocket for a full PPL.
As someone who had 0.0 hours before going to OCS and subsequently instructed Navy Primary in the T-6B, you 100% do not need prior flight time to succeed.
Back around '92, Neil came and flew our jet powered glider. The IP he flew with let him do a landing. Neil didn't flare it off all the way, and the main gear touched first, resulting in a skip.
Jeff (the IP) said "Well, I guess that's one small skip for a man."
Random13
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Will do!
That's pretty effing cool!
All the things I've read about Neal through the years, and I'm still learning more about this great man. He had a calm collecting engineers mind, and the raw skills of a real aviator. Brings me pride to have worn those same "coveted wings of gold" as he wore.
Chuck Yeager thought he was a great engineer but a mediocre aviator. Regardless, everything I have read about him notes that he loved to fly.
In API I remember them telling us about Armstrong and how he initially didn’t do very well (at least in flight school). They had a copy of one of his “pink-sheets” that commented on his under-performance. Pretty funny looking back on something like that
Sounds like the title for a new thread...
Chuck Yeager though... (hmmm).
If only he were a Naval Aviator, it would help my opinion a bit.
I've heard countless stories from people who met chuck that he was a complete asshole. A real, "never meet your heroes, they'll only disappoint you" kind of guy.
To be fair, Armstrong did bounce the X-15. 😁Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but I don't see anything mediocre here...
Random13
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I remember this old post on airwarriors in which someone was asking a question about how much civilian flight time actually helped or hindered during military flight training, one of the members said how they came in with 0 hours and graduated number 1. The member stated "it's not where you start, it's where you finish." I would say this exact quote would apply to Armstrong based off of the story above.