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I've already found the plane. My contractor used to fly back in the 70's and wants to get into it again. He said he'd go halves with me on an older Piper Arrow. I found one that is $65k and up to date on inspections.

Just came back from my discovery flight and had a wonderful time. The instructor did a 10 minute briefing before heading out to the plane. He even let me do some of the checklist with him. Once we took off he let me control the plane for 0.8 hours. We flew over my house and around the town...

Greetings Dave. I'm not too far from KTHV. I'll be doing my discover flight at KDMW.

I forgot to mention in my introductory post that I am also a licensed amateur radio operator. General class ticket with Yaesu FT450D for HF work and Yaesu 2900 for VHF at home. I have an ICOM 5100D in my car.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I've been selling it to her that if I had my PPL then I could fly her up to see her parents, who live in upstate NY. There's an airport right down the road from them! Right now that's a 6.5 hour drive or about 1.5 in a small plane. She also has family in...

Does the year of the FAA's "Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge" matter? I see on the FAA's website I can download this for free as a PDF. I do better studying from a physical book than an eBook so I'm looking to purchase the physical. The version on Amazon is from 2021 at $75. There's...

Greetings. My lovely wife got me a Discovery Flight voucher for my birthday so I am very interested in aviation now. I had been talking about wanting to learn how to fly for a few years now. My discovery flight includes 90 minutes of classroom and 45 minutes of flying. I live in south central...