What did you do your private training in?

In which aircraft did you (mostly) train for your private certificate?

  • Cessna 150/152

    Votes: 76 33.6%

  • Cessna 172

    Votes: 73 32.3%

  • Piper Cherokee

    Votes: 32 14.2%

  • Piper Tomahawk

    Votes: 9 4.0%

  • Piper, High wing

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Beechcraft Skipper

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Beechcraft Musketeer, Sundowner, Sport

    Votes: 2 0.9%

  • Grumman AA series/Yankee

    Votes: 5 2.2%

  • Champ, Chief, Luscombe, Cessna 120/140

    Votes: 5 2.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 23 10.2%
  • Total voters
    226
My first flying lessons and solo in 1979 was a C-150 and a C152. In 2004 I started again in one of 2 C-172s. After Solo I purchased a Cherokee 140 and completed all my XC and check ride in that. So the correct answer is all of the top 3.
 
Started in a Cessna 172. Got my Canadian recreational permit in it. Then “trained” on my own mostly in an Ercoupe and then in Cessna 150 in which I got my Private. Then continued “training” in a Cherokee in which I got my night rating and vfr ott (both are separate ratings in Canadian regs).
 
C-152, PA-28-161, but most of the hours in a C-172
 
C-152, N94183
actually, the school had a couple of others that I flew some, but mostly that one. Solo, checkride, and most of the time to that point!1660864655023-d7eb7594-759b-4248-ba40-4f112d6cfe2d.jpg
 
Summer of 1966 - started and soloed in a Cherokee 140, followed by most cross country in a Piper Colt. Then I moved back to college and the airport (within walking distance) had me finishing up in a Citabria. Took and passed my checkride with an FAA Examiner in December, 1966 in a Citabria.
 
midlifeflyer said:
7 now. I still get excited and run to look at it when I see a T-Hawk on a ramp.

Like yesterday :D
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Nice! I love seeing them--it brings back great memories.

The funny thing is, I didn't appreciate what a fun little plane the PA38 can be until after I got my PPL. Every so often, I would take a break from the PA28s and rent one of the school's 3 Hawks. I really enjoyed being able to do that!
 
Charlie Golf said:
Nice! I love seeing them--it brings back great memories.

The funny thing is, I didn't appreciate what a fun little plane the PA38 can be until after I got my PPL. Every so often, I would take a break from the PA28s and rent one of the school's 3 Hawks. I really enjoyed being able to do that!
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You might appreciate this story about finding the Tomahawk I flew for my private checkride years later.
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A Visit to an Old Friend

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (Lake Ridge Aero) Note: This was written when I was still flying and teaching in Colorado. Now, here I am, living where the story takes place. Unfortunately, the airp…
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midlifeflyer said:
You might appreciate this story about finding the Tomahawk I flew for my private checkride years later.
midlifeflight.com

A Visit to an Old Friend

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (Lake Ridge Aero) Note: This was written when I was still flying and teaching in Colorado. Now, here I am, living where the story takes place. Unfortunately, the airp…
midlifeflight.com
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Love nostalgia like that!

Flying to Daytona for the races in a few weeks. Stopping at KTRI to look at a machine for work. Flight path puts us really close to where dads old plane and the one he got his ppl in is now based. He doesn't know it, but we're stopping there for a fuel stop...
 
Champ, Citabria, 150/152, 172, 175
Bell 47, R-22, AS-350

I had a student who did 100% of her private training in a C-185. After a few years of flying that she came to the dark side and I instructed her in an R-22. She went on to fly Air Evac.
 
midlifeflyer said:
You might appreciate this story about finding the Tomahawk I flew for my private checkride years later.
midlifeflight.com

A Visit to an Old Friend

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (Lake Ridge Aero) Note: This was written when I was still flying and teaching in Colorado. Now, here I am, living where the story takes place. Unfortunately, the airp…
midlifeflight.com
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No. Freaking. Way!

Check out the 1st page of my first logbook:

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74T was my intro flight, 1st solo and checkride...and most training in between. Thank you for the link to your story! :cheers:
 
Symphony 140 ppl
Da40 instrument
B55 twin endorsement lovely airplane fast and great feel on controls
172 comm
Cub seaplane endorsement
Tecnam p206t twin commercial this plane was a load of underpowered turd
 
Tecnam LSAs, several flavors but all high wings. That’s how I learned to prefer low wings.
 
C-172 pp (4-5 different ones)
DA-40NG IR
DA-40XLT CP
DA-42 ME
C-172 SES
BE-18 MES
 
midlifeflyer said:
Way!

74T is now in Texas.

BTW, I was up there visiting just a few years ago. 7B2 is hopping! I even bought the hat!
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It's hard to picture what that airport was like back in the day. The growth and activity there is wonderful!

I still call 7B2 home, and have the hat too. Lol
 
mscard88 said:
I used two C150s assigned to the Osan Air Base aero club in S. Korea. Both planes are deceased now. RIP.
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I was offered to buy two C-150s from OSAN Aero Club back in 1986. One of them had the wings removed and some nosewheel damage after an off-airport fuel exhaustion incident.
They only wanted a ridiculously small amount for the two airplanes and even with the cost of shipping, I could have had two C-150s for around $5,000.
Yeah, a missed opportunity, but it probably would have turned into a disaster, with my luck.
 
I voted the Tomahawk I soloed at 16. But, having never got a private, straight to commercial with mil equiv, listing the T-34C Mentor is probably apropos.

My son did ALL his primary training in a Pietenpol.
 
Charlie Golf said:
It's hard to picture what that airport was like back in the day. The growth and activity there is wonderful!

I still call 7B2 home, and have the hat too. Lol
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It really was a pleasure to see all thew activity. I was back in the area for a few days (personal, not business. I flew into BDL) and it was one of the places I just had to visit.

So, continuing the coincidence, looks like you were 2 years ahead of me. Who was the DPE for your private checkride? Royal Griffin for me.
 
midlifeflyer said:
It really was a pleasure to see all thew activity. I was back in the area for a few days (personal, not business. I flew into BDL) and it was one of the places I just had to visit.

So, continuing the coincidence, looks like you were 2 years ahead of me. Who was the DPE for your private checkride? Royal Griffin for me.
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Yes! He was also the DPE for my instrument and commercial over the next few years.
 
I did a few hours with CAP in a C-172. Took a few years off, finished PP in AA-5B Tiger. I voted Grumman AA series/Yankee, even though the Yankee was the AA-1, and AA series would also include AA-1A, AA-1B, AA-1C, AA-5, AA-5A and AA-5B. And really includes the later GA and AG versions of the Tiger
 
Glider private (came first) in a Blank L13 (I guess that's an "Other"). Airplane private in a 152.
 
My primary training was done in a 1975 Cessna 172M model, owned by the previous repair station I worked for, that I did a full panel overhaul in. Two display G3X Touch with GFC 500 autopilot, GTN 750Xi, GNS 430W, GMA 350c audio panel, and GTX 345 transponder. G5 standby instrument.
 
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