Recent content by Paulsen

I've heard. A couple pilots say that the Sims can develop a bad habit of focusing on the instruments to much. When I took my intro flight the instructor told me I was to focused on the instruments. Now when I fly on the sim I make a conscious effort to constantly look around outside the cockpit...

Its $40 to tie down and $105 to tie down under a covered car port type roof.

Sorry I have to continue in a new post as I am responding on a touch screen. Anyway the lessons part of the FSX "virtually" gives you instruction from PPL thru ATP. I'm currently learning how to make different entries into a holding pattern, which is something that guys like you and I...

I'm not sure I qualify to respond to this because I hold no ratings, but I have the Microsoft FSX and Ive put well over 100 hours on it. I love it for under 20 bucks your introduced to a ton of instruction. The have a lessons section that "virtualy" takes

I just checked out the savvy aviators web site and there's tons of info on the subject thanks for pointing them out. Ill. Spend time learning as much as I can on the subject as I believe this is the route I want to go, or through research I may find that it is not lol. Either way thanks to...

This is exactly what my brain keeps telling me! Now is the C-150 right for me and my location most have said no, I wont know until I've done more research. Lets say a C-172 fits my situation perfectly, is if better to dump money renting for some reason? Or is it in fact better to own with all...

I looked again the 150 at my FBO is 160hp and cost for credit is $125 not $140. I'm going to find a 100hp 150 owner in the area and pick his brain and see if I can't take a flight before I do anything. I'm very new to the world of aviation and realizing renting a few and joining a club may very...

Yeah that could be the case. Ill ask.

This is all good information, thanks to all for the input. I've tried crunching numbers but just don't know enough to come up with a realistic conclusion.

The 150 at my FBO rents dual only @ around 120 per hour cash 140 credit. $60 per hour may make me think differently.

I understand its not fly for free, I guess my main question is doesn't owning a trainer have many more advantages saving money building hundreds of hours up to CFI being one of them? Yes that's assuming all goes well.

What about all the rental costs? Is that smart?

Oh I am in no way thrilled about the fact that my FBO's 150 is a taildragger, except the taildragger experience maybe. I'm drawn to the 150 for its ease of use and don't understand why someone would make the conversion other than losing the drag from the nose wheel?

Dont you have the air-force academy in town ? They initially started out with Diamond DA20s for the initial flight screening program. They found out that the 100hp DA20s didn't have enough oompf to be useable at the density altitudes common in Colorado Springs and replaced them with leased DA40s...

This is all great info. I'm loving it all the good the bad and the ugly its all very informative because if one Guy says something profoundly wrong another Guy is more than happy to not only call him on it but also provide a logical reason or even real life examples as to what is more realistic...