BrianNC
En-Route
Wow I started a thread about eeking out a bare minimum X/C on a logging technicality and it turns into student pilot doing a 1500 X/C
Gotta love POA.
Logging >50nm Cross Country Flights
- Thread starter Sinistar
- Start date
Gotta love POA.
StevieTimes
Line Up and Wait
I re-read the OP, and I apologize. This thread is about logging xc flight, not a totally different post where the fella is exploring options. I got OT.
We're all like minded people, and we should try to be as helpful as we can to potential pilots.
We are brothers and sisters of flight.
We're all like minded people, and we should try to be as helpful as we can to potential pilots.
We are brothers and sisters of flight.
WannFly
Final Approach
Completely agree on the brother part, but being a single guy I have to disagree about calling all female pilots my sisters
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
But an hour after I get my ticket you would?
No. An hour after you get your PPL you can kill yourself without affecting the lives of your CFI and his family.
-Skip
StevieTimes
Line Up and Wait
You know, I had kind of a strange moment after getting my license.
I was grinning ear to ear, approaching the plane, and I thought "FINALLY, now I don't have to... .... wait no I still do everything I've been doing in training all this time. Nothing has changed. I'm still going to fly by the book. Well, except straight-ins, those are in. Also, I might hire some flight attendants. Yeah. Maybe a dude, maybe a dude, you know, we'll keep things PC and all that. Naw, it ain't a dude and you all know it, no way it's a dude. Hey, how much of this was out loud? Why are you guys looking at me, did you hear that stuff about flight attendants? Why are you looking at each other like that?"
Somehow I thought I'd feel different, but nope, same guy who stayed up too late, couldn't sleep, and was so nervous just an hour ago.
Again, I'm OT, just thought of that moment. The first part of my thought was real.
I was grinning ear to ear, approaching the plane, and I thought "FINALLY, now I don't have to... .... wait no I still do everything I've been doing in training all this time. Nothing has changed. I'm still going to fly by the book. Well, except straight-ins, those are in. Also, I might hire some flight attendants. Yeah. Maybe a dude, maybe a dude, you know, we'll keep things PC and all that. Naw, it ain't a dude and you all know it, no way it's a dude. Hey, how much of this was out loud? Why are you guys looking at me, did you hear that stuff about flight attendants? Why are you looking at each other like that?"
Somehow I thought I'd feel different, but nope, same guy who stayed up too late, couldn't sleep, and was so nervous just an hour ago.
Again, I'm OT, just thought of that moment. The first part of my thought was real.
Sinistar
En-Route
- Joined
- Sep 9, 2016
- Messages
- 3,734
- Display Name
Display name:
Brad
I really don't mind at all that this thread went off topic, especially @StevieTimes if it drifts on towards FEMALE flight attendants:
Not really. A CFI whose student kills himself an hour later will be looked at. If nothing else, talked to by the NTSB investigators as a witness. Hopefully not more than that from a regulatory or legal standpoint. It may be brief likely be brief but very uncomfortable. And that CFI will often be lef wondering if he failed somehow.
Hardly "without effect."
AWACSEng
Cleared for Takeoff
How about taking the CFI on the 1500nm X-Cntry? Would be a bit pricey, but the experience gained would be well worth the cost.
I learned to fly in Alaska, where a cross country was, in my mind, a near death defying adventure for a newly minted PP. Once I moved to the east coast, it took quite some time before I was comfortable enough with the tools available to me to make a ~200nm X-Cntry. It is very easy in this region to find airports right at 50nm. I eventually decided I needed to venture out of my safety bubble and started throwing darts at the sectional and going with it. I've also made it a point to not visit the same airport on consecutive flights just to keep broadening my experience.
I learned to fly in Alaska, where a cross country was, in my mind, a near death defying adventure for a newly minted PP. Once I moved to the east coast, it took quite some time before I was comfortable enough with the tools available to me to make a ~200nm X-Cntry. It is very easy in this region to find airports right at 50nm. I eventually decided I needed to venture out of my safety bubble and started throwing darts at the sectional and going with it. I've also made it a point to not visit the same airport on consecutive flights just to keep broadening my experience.