Hi all, With all the flying I haven't been doing lately, I have NTR So, whilst spending the Christmas break studying Comms, I have been thinking of first goal post qualifying..... This led me to thinking it would make an interesting new thread, so, chaps and chapesses, what are your goals once qualified and to those that are...what WERE your goals and did you achieve them?
I'll kick off...... my first goal post qualifying is to achieve my Taildragger rating
...and my first pax..I would like to be either my brother ( ) or my very good pilot friend who started it all off......
Iolanthe "The Flying Curator" PPL Student Home Airfield: EGYD Exams Passed: Met; Air Law; Comms
....and with the wx recently (particularly back home in Leigh over Christmas!) you have a very apt Flyer name!
Yeah...taildraggers, IMHO the true spirit of flying... If you're thinking Claction, that wouldn't be the Classic Wings associated Chippy or Harvard by any chance would it? Hmm, farm strip training, hadn't thought of that. Though, as one of our members is a farmer with a strip, and whose wife invited me to fly over to see them (only Newark, so hardly a long trip!), I should really learn very short field procedures....
Iolanthe "The Flying Curator" PPL Student Home Airfield: EGYD Exams Passed: Met; Air Law; Comms
To save you embarrassment when you step out of the protected waters of the studes forum you should be aware that it is a night qualification, not a rating.
Rob P
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And you'll get no argument from me, but it does demonstrate a point you made on another thread about flying always costing slightly more than what is comfortable
...Take my cousin flying as first passenger because she was the only one who said "Cool!" instead of "Why?" when I started telling people I was learning to fly.
...Take my nephew flying because, while he couldn't yet say "Cool" he COULD say "Neeeoowww" and "Up!" and did so repeatedly and vigorously every time he saw the aircraft.
...Go camping somewhere you could stick uhp the tent beside the aeroplane, combining to of my favourite things
...Fly into Rosemarket golf course airstrip because I used to go there when I was small and liked seeing the aeroplanes landing.
My goals were to take people flying. Then to land away somewhere at a fly-in...my first was a Pooleys fly-in at Compton Abbas (flown in from Cardiff). Fly-ins range from easy (like that one) to rather busy and scary (like Oshkosh!), and there's a progression to be made I think. But it's nice to fly out somewhere and meet so many people. Now we have internet fora, meeting people one chats to on here is one of my current goals...whether by air, at an aviation show or at a forum meal.
I think realistic first goals, after taking people flying in your local area, is to expand your horizons. Plan flights to airfields you've been to before, but then plan flights to airfields you've never been to before. Get further and further away from home base.
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So, whilst spending the Christmas break studying Comms, I have been thinking of first goal post qualifying..... This led me to thinking it would make an interesting new thread, so, chaps and chapesses, what are your goals once qualified and to those that are...what WERE your goals and did you achieve them?
If you're thinking Claction, that wouldn't be the Classic Wings associated Chippy or Harvard by any chance would it? Hmm, farm strip training, hadn't thought of that. Though, as one of our members is a farmer with a strip, and whose wife invited me to fly over to see them (only Newark, so hardly a long trip!), I should really learn very short field procedures....
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