Recent content by integra144

Can people give advice on how to finance flying? My parents are paying for my 4 year college degree in accounting, but they want me to start paying for flying myself, they will cosign the loan. In the summer I want to fly more and it is already costing around $1,500 for 2x 2:30 lessons a week. I...

Thanks for the replies. I was going threw what I think my problem is and it ends up being two scenarios. 1. The plane drifts to the left or right and I don't apply enough rudder and soon after you see the plan about shooting off the side and I kind of lock up or get nervous and step on the...

Is something wrong with me? I have about 13hrs in a 172 SP during takeoff I seem to periodically have trouble keeping my plan on centerline. I once even accidentally stepped on the wrong rudder when the plane was off center I think I got nervous. Is this normal? I am proficient at everything...

hey I noticed in your sig you have Ford Excursion isn't that the biggest suv ever produced. How does that baby drive with the diseal 10? I always wanted to test drive one. I was behind one today in my RX330 and I was literally dwarfed by it. lol.

dont you need 250 hours to get you license? and pass both a checkride and a written test.

Im doing two lessons per a week starting April and each lesson is 2.5 hours. Right now the instructors schedules is booked full. 2 times a week for 2.5 hours should be good right? It costs around $300 a lesson so that would be $600 a week or $2400 a month. Dont know if I can afford three...

This is kind of a pointless thread, but just wanted to vent. I hate when weather cancels my flight with my instructor. I look forward to it all week, during school, at work.... then get notified that the weather has canceled my lesson today. Now I have to wait a whole week to fly again.

after reading the advice i decided to stick with the sp.

I AM A MALE and proud!!! ps was also that way a birth Although, my parents offered to pay the $30,000 in the end they were really sarcastic about it and kept joking and poking fun at my career. So I mainly threw the check back at them and told them I was going to fund this career myself. I am...

Thanks Grant Prellwitz for the upload f the two models I got the stream guage, they had a image of the G1000 advertisment, but he said since I was learning I should first stick with the basics to learn the guages and stuff, what do you guys think about the 182? Would that be excessive? I like...

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just Kevin: I was told that this type of 172SP is what the school will be utilizing and 172, but mainly the 152 are being phased out (EOL). Not sure if EOL (End of Life Cycle) is used in the aviation industry, it just means technology that is too old, unsafe or no longer cost effective. The...

Which is better trainer Cessna 172 or 172SP the price difference is negligible so would one recommend the SP? Also the SP has GPS not sure about the 172 didn’t see the inside of that model? Thanks

I am going to follow everyones advice and finish accounting, but I am also going to start at the flying school. Maybe 3 times a week and during the summer I can take some aviation courses and pick up flying more. Also I think my parents may be pulling through, because I talked about getting a...

Thanks all for the posts and advice; just a status update without me spewing too much dirty laundry. Yesterday me and my parents got in a BIG and I mean big fight. After about three hours we all calmed down, and my dad said he’ll think about it, today everything seems well like if no fight had...