Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:38 pm
#1864120
Evening all,
Bit of an intro. I thought I'd done one already but seems like it was not posted or I didn't press the right button.
Was in the ATC as a yoof and did as much flying as I could. Uni, life, SWMBO, job etc. in the intervening years brought me to July 2021 at the age of 47 with a wife (still - nobody more surprised than me), and 2 kids (18 and 20). The 3 of them got me a trial lesson for fathers day which I took on 20th July. Little did they know...
Upon landing, I knew I wanted to learn to fly. It was brilliant and I had remembered a bit of what I was taught some 30 years+ ago. A bit of haggling with work and wife and last week I had my second lesson.
I had a sight issue in 2001 which has to all intents and purposes left me with virtually no vision in my left eye. I was nervous as to whether I would be able to fly but some great advice from the AME at Gloucester resulted in me taking and passing my class 2 medical today so that's out of the way now and I'm good to go.
I'm learning for fun, not looking to rush it and roughly planning on a lesson per week. Weather and work will get in the way I know but I aim to get PPL in circa 18 months. Looking forward to sharing my experience with you and thanks to all for sharing yours. The forum is an interesting distraction between study for air law and air ops. I'm using EasyPPL so far and finding it OK but yet to take an actual exam.
Cheers all - see you around.
Bit of an intro. I thought I'd done one already but seems like it was not posted or I didn't press the right button.
Was in the ATC as a yoof and did as much flying as I could. Uni, life, SWMBO, job etc. in the intervening years brought me to July 2021 at the age of 47 with a wife (still - nobody more surprised than me), and 2 kids (18 and 20). The 3 of them got me a trial lesson for fathers day which I took on 20th July. Little did they know...
Upon landing, I knew I wanted to learn to fly. It was brilliant and I had remembered a bit of what I was taught some 30 years+ ago. A bit of haggling with work and wife and last week I had my second lesson.
I had a sight issue in 2001 which has to all intents and purposes left me with virtually no vision in my left eye. I was nervous as to whether I would be able to fly but some great advice from the AME at Gloucester resulted in me taking and passing my class 2 medical today so that's out of the way now and I'm good to go.
I'm learning for fun, not looking to rush it and roughly planning on a lesson per week. Weather and work will get in the way I know but I aim to get PPL in circa 18 months. Looking forward to sharing my experience with you and thanks to all for sharing yours. The forum is an interesting distraction between study for air law and air ops. I'm using EasyPPL so far and finding it OK but yet to take an actual exam.
Cheers all - see you around.
PPL(A) gained 30/8/22, started Aug 21, C-152, EGBJ