What will you do when you are done?

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Following up on Bryan's post about how will you know when you are done, the logical follow up question is WHAT will you do when you are done. In other words how will you fill the void?

My wife says I collect hobbies so I suspect I'll find something. I'll probably get back into sailing. I've thought about PPGs but not sure.
 
Assuming I quit for reasons other than financial, I'll spend more time at the beach and on the boat. If it's for financial reasons, I'll probably get a second job and join a club! :D
 
I want to travel, internationally, and on my own schedule... or at least not the one dictated by work.
 
Don't even want to think about it. Probably play with my boat.
 
Some of the things I haven't done for a while. Start another business (in the works). And travel more to finish the photo project I started a few years ago.

$1000 a month will go a long way.

Maybe Even rent LSA...
 
Well hopefully when I'm done it'll coincide with retirement from work. If that's the case then I'll travel the country in an RV. Spend more time with family. Aviation void will be filled with flying RC aircraft.
 
Sailing, paddling, sitting on the dock of the bay wastin time. Won't be bad at all.
 
Done? I am 85 and fly about 8-10 times a month in my RV-12. I plan to fly the plane on my 100th birthday, then hang a sign on it "For Sale" and then call it 'done.'
 
The FAA can have my airplane when they pry it from my cold, dead hands! :D
 
Velocity173 said:
Well hopefully when I'm done it'll coincide with retirement from work. If that's the case then I'll travel the country in an RV. Spend more time with family. Aviation void will be filled with flying RC aircraft.
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Right there with you. RC planes. Lots of em...

And I am buying my old car back. I could spend years under it just tinkering.

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Old soldiers never die, they just fade away....

Old sailors never die, they just sail away....

Old pilots never die, they just collect their pay.... :lol::lol::lol:
 
To give a more serious answer, I could see going back to spending more time wrenching on cars or else more time boating. However given that I never am hurting for things to do...
 
Never! I'm gonna be like this guy:

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And, If I can't be like that guy, I'll find a PIC to keep safe and legal!
 
Interesting timing and n this question. I will retire from my first career next summer. I hope to spend a couple of weeks preparing for my third hunting season in 24+ years (my first in CO).

After that, I hope to start over(ish) in a new sector with the goal of transitioning to full-time GA employment over the next ten years. I enjoy instructing, so I will probably specialize in that area. I also plan to get better at gardening.

After that, who knows?


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Finish my will and catch up on life insurance payments.
 
I live in the boating capital of Texas, and am just about the only person here that does NOT own a boat. I suspect I would head in that direction, if I was no longer able to fly. It certainly looks sedate.
 
I faced that three years ago, and Dr. Bruce got me back in the air. It was not fun to face that. Light sport wasn't very appealing but it was better than nothing.

I just don't know what I'll do and I try not to think about it.:nonod:
 
I tried retirement. Got bored inside of 4 months. Went to a farm auction sale looking to buy a tractor for plowing snow off my driveway. Never been to one of those kind of sales before. Three auctioneers standing up on flat bed wagons with loud speakers all talking at the same time. Big crowd. Hot dog stands. Lots of noise. So much I could not understand anything. Stood there scratching my head wondering what that fella up front of me chanting nonsense sounds a mile a minute was saying.
Turns out he was saying I had just bought the farm. Actually, the only thing he said I could understand was "SOLD to the man in the blue hat for {insert a lot of numbers}"
I remember thinking, 'wow that's a lot of money' and looking around for some fella wearing a blue hat like mine.
Well, the wife was not real happy with me.
Especially since I wrote the check against her personal account.
 
Mary and I have had this discussion.

We would most likely purchase a motor home and for a few months a year (winter) tour the south and south west. Summer months spend it here in OC enjoying the beach and retirement. Maybe I'll have to investigate boating.
 
Already found a different way to fly:

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Phoenix said:
Sailing, paddling, sitting on the dock of the bay wastin time. Won't be bad at all.
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Heck yeah, I love boating (both sail and power, if it's on the water, I like it), like bicycling, like motorcycling. Plenty of things I like to do.
 
I could definitely see doing boat trips. It's the opposite of the plane - slower. :)
 
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I could definitely see doing boat trips. It's the opposite of the plane - slower. :)
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I could see myself living on a sailboat in the islands. Which islands? Who cares, when you tire of one, pull up anchor and sail to the next.
 
Bill Jennings said:
I could see myself living on a sailboat in the islands. Which islands? Who cares, when you tire of one, pull up anchor and sail to the next.
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I could see doing that, too. We'd considered it pre-kids.
 
I still have about 30 years if I do this flying thing all the way to retirement, although I'm budgeting to retire 10 years early if I can. Anyway, it seems like such a long way away, although I know it'll be here before I know it. :)

What will I do? Living on a sailboat somewhere warm sounds nice. Or maybe have a place up in the mountains. Or both! So many variables though. Will I have a significant other? Kids? I could either have a ton of money when I retire, or very little, depending on what happens on this planet over the next couple of decades.

Or just say screw it, and go big:

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kayoh190 said:
I still have about 30 years if I do this flying thing all the way to retirement, although I'm budgeting to retire 10 years early if I can. Anyway, it seems like such a long way away, although I know it'll be here before I know it. :)
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It will...
 
I am 50. Hoping for 20 more years +/- of flying maybe a few more but the men in my family don't have a great track record. I take better care of myself than they did but fighting genetics can be an uphill battle.

I spend a ton of time hunting and fishing now when I am not flying. I always tell people I could be busy everyday with or without a job. I would love to spend a year or two traveling the country in an RV just getting to, seeing and experiencing the nooks and crannies of this country.

While I am still flying I would at some point like to do a 3-6 month or so flight around the country in a Champ or similar. Low and slow, no schedule just airport hop all over the country.
 
I couldn't answer this question when I asked it of myself over the last couple years. I put 6.8 hours on my plane between the previous annual and the last one so decided with flying so little there's no sense paying hangar rent. So I put the plane on Barnstormers. Found a buyer quickly but I made the sale contingent upon me going to an annual fly-in in Oregon I usually attend. I would decide when I got back whether to follow through with the sale.

Coming back from Oregon I landed about 11 PM for fuel in Merced, CA, about halfway, same place I'd landed on the way up. This time, instead of dead silence that normally reigns at night at this rural airport, when opening the canopy I was startled to hear some bone-stirring live raggae like da kine I loved to listen to thirty+ years ago. I followed my ears across the tarmac to the airport fence where there was/is an outdoor club that had fires going and a band that turned out to be named Raggae Lark. Never heard of them but I don't listen to anything these days, despite having thousands of dollars worth of CD's. I seem to appreciate only silence and natural sounds. I've been that way for awhile now. But not that night. It was the most amazing music. It instantly stripped away the last thirty years and I stayed - on my side of the fence - until their set was over, my body moving with the sounds of Jamaica. It was the real stuff.

I fueled up the plane and continued on home, crossing high above the ocean of light that is the L.A. Basin in the middle of night and thought to myself, I want to put an end to these kinds of experiences? And do what . . . ?

I'm not about to sell my plane. Not only would I never ever experience things like that again without one (and what . . . rent a friggin' Cessna once in a while?) but I never came up with a good answer as to what I would replace my aviation interests with. The prospective buyer was disappointed but I would have been more so had I followed through with my foolish whim. Coming that close to selling reinvigorated my involvement with using and maintaining my slick little toy. Don't know what I was thinking . . . saving the hangar rent I guess.
 

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Ducted fan or turbine? I haven't touched any of my rc planes since I started flying full scale for real.
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Ducted fan. Definitely don't have the cash for a turbine.

Has slats, flaps, retracts and even an air brake. Lights up also but I think I'll disable that to save on battery power.
 

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Velocity173 said:
Ducted fan. Definitely don't have the cash for a turbine.

Has slats, flaps, retracts and even an air brake. Lights up also but I think I'll disable that to save on battery power.
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Oh that's cool! What kind of transmitter are you using with it?
 
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