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This post is exactly what I was looking for. I suppose your argument that you didn't save any money from buying your own plane to learn in, is because you spent so much more time flying that plane than most people who get their PPL. So in a way, you did save money vs. if you'd had all of those...

That's something I hadn't seriously considered but I'll look into. I'm sure you're right and there's plenty of those sorts of clubs around here. The only thing I'd be worried about is that they would have minimum time requirements that I won't meet until I've putzed around in something like a...

Now that is the best reason yet to do the first bit of training in a rental. The 172RG I flew I was able to stall onto the ground and it wasn't very rough, but I am certain that the instructor was helping; I know he had one hand on the yoke. Being at KBFI with its giant runway was probably a...

Is this "discovery" flight the one where you go up, they give you control for a bit and tell you about flying, and then you come back, takes about an hour? If so, I've done it, and it was glorious. The instructor was about an hour late so he gave me some extra time behind the yoke to make up...

rk911, what's the benefit in this case of learning in a rented aircraft? From my reading, I'll probably end up spending about as much in a per hour basis on a Debonair as I would on a rental 172, not counting purchase price of course, with the benefit being that I have a plane as well as a...

Good afternoon any and all! I apologize in advance if any of this is stuff that's been gone over a hundred thousand times here; if there is some resource that I neglected to look through before posting, please don't hesitate to point me in that direction. So to start, I am not a pilot; I am not...