John Baker
Final Approach
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- Oct 4, 2008
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- San Diego, California
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John Baker
Today, I sold my airplane. I am one of those lucky guys that had Eddy Lane do my check ride.
I will not bother renewing my medical, I also will not bother with taking another check ride. After eight years of beating my head against one bureaucratic hurdle after another, I am done. The bureaucrats won.
No more flying, no more nonsense, I get to keep my money.
I don't know if I'm happy or sad about the whole thing. All I can say is that for around one hundred thousand dollars, including buying my Warrior, six years of one frustration after another, I got to fly an airplane by myself.
I feel really stupid for putting myself through all of that. Anyway, it is finally over, for good. To top it off, I can't even find my pilots certificate to stick on my den wall someplace. I guess I will have to fill out a bunch of forms with the FAA saying I lost it.
-John
I will not bother renewing my medical, I also will not bother with taking another check ride. After eight years of beating my head against one bureaucratic hurdle after another, I am done. The bureaucrats won.
No more flying, no more nonsense, I get to keep my money.
I don't know if I'm happy or sad about the whole thing. All I can say is that for around one hundred thousand dollars, including buying my Warrior, six years of one frustration after another, I got to fly an airplane by myself.
I feel really stupid for putting myself through all of that. Anyway, it is finally over, for good. To top it off, I can't even find my pilots certificate to stick on my den wall someplace. I guess I will have to fill out a bunch of forms with the FAA saying I lost it.
-John