Tarheel Pilot
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Tarheel Pilot
How can you tell if it would really be in your best intrest to get your IFR rating? Here is my mission for my PPL as well as any aircraft I hope to own.
I should mention I will be doing some mountain flying, so that may play a factor in me considering getting an IFR rating.
I plan on being a rec. pilot. I plan on flying my airplanes to local fly-in restaurants, to attend fly-ins around my area, go to the beach or mountain for a weekend getaway, and every Summer I may fly it up to Oshkosh for the annual AirVenture. I may also fly it down to the Caribbean maybe once or twice. Now I definitely want to have an IFR panel, with a Garmin GNS 430, with Nav/Com 2 and a Garmin Transponder. The max passenger will be around myself and one other passenger, maybe two. I will be an uncle soon so I plan on exposing my niece/nephew to this great world of aviation. So I basically need an aircraft that is easy and fun to fly (all four qualify for that), can carry camping equipment (minus the food which I will buy at my destination) and can basically fly me to vacation spots, fly-ins and to that $100 hamburger.
I should mention I will be doing some mountain flying, so that may play a factor in me considering getting an IFR rating.
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