Recent content by cyberfelt

Yeah, I'm just east of both lakes. They're pretty much kaput, and the dams are both destroyed. When we fly over them, you can see how much large debris went and got stuck there. It's insane.

Yep! IKW is my home airport. Anywhere you recommend in the state to go check out?

We're working with an informal arrangement. That freedom to fly whenever I want is what I want. I don't want to give up control to someone else, so I won't initiate a leaseback. I know my instructor has a CFI policy for his students for a non-owned airplane, with $50,000 in hull coverage. I...

The second smartest thing I did with this plane is have my 11 year old son go up with my instructor. Now he wants to be a pilot when he grows up. Suddenly that desire to upgrade the avionics went from "unnecessary" according to the wife to "something we can work on doing a little bit at a time"...

Thanks for the kind words, everybody!

Midland. Are you located here?

Haha, my thinking was that if I bought the plane my wife wouldn't be able to tell me no! ;) In all actuality, I was renting a plane a half-hour away for $80/hr dry. Me flying a few times a week added up, and when I did the math I had to look into purchasing a plane. I ended up with a very...

Hey everyone, my name is Dustin. I'm new to the forum, although I've been lurking a few months. I'm a student pilot from Michigan, who's about 25 hours into my private pilot journey. I've been waiting on a medical for three months now, but I'm having a lot of fun getting up in the air with my...