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Congrats! That's got to be an awesome experience.

I bought my Cherokee 140 after about 10 lessons. The one rental plane in my city was always taken when I was able to fly. I think that if you can afford to rent and take lessons, you can afford to buy. Even with a hangar, I am spending the cost of about 3 rental hours a month (fuel extra). I...

I beg to differ, as long as it is a legitimate business venture and not just a pure attempt to avoid liability. The specific rules would vary by jurisdiction. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/piercing_the_corporate_veil#

I am a trial lawyer but do not practice in aviation. If you are providing instruction or any other service as a business, in most states you should be able to protect your personal assets by setting up a separate legal entity such as an LLC, S Corp, etc. There are ways to "pierce the corporate...

Everyone has some level of fear to overcome. That is the joy in flying - for me - overcoming that fear and making progress. One day soon you'll be up there by yourself like it's no big deal, and think "holy ****, I'm a pilot!" I don't have the same type of fear as you, but I have definitely...

Update: this turned out to be a very good experience and a turning point in my flying. As a result of this incident my instructor and I had some long conversations about how to manage airspeed without fixating on the ASI. I learned to set my airspeed after reducing power abeam the numbers, trim...

I started using the ipad once we started cross country training. Sometimes we turn off the gps and just use it for the chart. It is much easier than using a paper chart. My instructor's philosophy is to use all of the resources available. I do keep a paper chart within reach and folded to the...

I read this book and found it to have some very helpful suggestions.

Talk to a criminal defense attorney and see what kind of deal you can get. In my state charges can be expunged from your record.

I was using flight following yesterday and the controller asked me to descend from 5500 to 5000 for traffic separation. Five minutes later, another plane crossed my path 500 feet above. We would have collided without the vertical separation. I lay in bed last night trying to calculate the odds...

I bought a plane due to frustration with the one rental plane being on a tight schedule. That was in March and I didn't solo until August. Life happens.

Nothing to be embarrassed about, it sounds like you handled it like Chuck Yeager. I was impressed reading your story.

Thanks everyone for the support and helpful suggestions. I just need to get more used to turbulent conditions and practice more in general. We have been flying early in the morning because of the heat and I was not expecting the afternoon to be as different as it was. 9HB, I do fly to CDN...

My instructor said I made the right call even though I was not authorized to fly there. It is ok to deviate for safety reasons, and we have talked about using the big airport if something happens at the home airport, like a runway incident or unexpected weather condition. The outcome of the...

Lessons learned: 1. Don't fly by yourself in unfamiliar weather conditions, even one that looks sunny and low wind, before doing it with an instructor. 2. Don't fly if you are questioning yourself at all about illness. Even if I'm ok to fly, worrying about it adds a mental issue which...

As a recently-soloed pilot with about 6-7 hours solo, doing short XC flights, my confidence was growing quickly, but yesterday it took a big hit. Usually I fly early in the morning and am done by 9:30-10:00 am. Yesterday I left work early and went to the airport to fly around 3:00 pm. I had not...

Congrats! I am not far ahead of you. Great confidence booster. I found solo cross-country to be another "what am I doing" moment, but I've done it twice as of this morning and the second time was not nearly as tense.

I started out in gliders - Williams Soaring Center is reasonably close to you, that would be the most cost-effective way to get aloft, and definitely one of the most fun. http://www.williamssoaring.com/training-newpilot.html

I soloed today for the first time - I did get some jitters but I held it together! It was a real feeling of relief after that first landing, because like you the not-knowing whether today's the day was adding some stress to my lessons.

Given the insane improvement in electric R/C aircraft batteries and motors, I believe that electric is the future.