N521MA
Pre-takeoff checklist
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2013
- Messages
- 129
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FlyBoy
Hello everyone - just wanted to say hello to all the pilots here!
As of today, I am still a student pilot going for PPL. Actually waiting for my instructor to call me back with a date for my check ride; hopefully this WILL happen next week. Its been very long 19 months, almost 100 hours and 3 schools later I finally got here
Questions for PROs:
Goal: Although I am not planning for an aviation career (too late for that ), my goal is to be able to transport my own sales team across the country, and I mean entire country (almost like an “internal” airline company). In the beginning I am anticipating that my trips will start small; we are based out of NY, so my initial trips will most likely be to Chicago, Indiana, Florida, Michigan, Cleveland, Boston in a PA-28-181 (Archer III) and given the weather that has a passion to constantly ruin VFR days, I am thinking to immediately go back to school and get my IFR.
Situation: I think I’ve been born as an IFR pilot, as from day “one” I’ve been in love with my instruments; I trust them, I use them on every flight, aside for VFR traffic avoidance, I hardly look out the window for flight references; I feel that my AI gives me a whole lot more than my eyes looking at horizon. However, my instructor keeps saying “you busted your ass for so long, go out and enjoy yourself on the good days, take a break for 6 months, and then start thinking if you’re up to it and do the Instrument rating”.
Dilemma: Although I’ve been seriously bitten by the “FLY” bug from the day I left the runway below, I am looking at this from an angle to combining pleasure with business. If I don’t get the IFR right away, this only means that I will not take the chance of flying my team anywhere, as I will be 99.9% of time paranoid of not being able to return home on a particular schedule; including messing with lives and schedules of people that work with me.As well as, not being able to go anywhere from the get go due to IMC conditions.
Question: Do I listen to the instructor and buzz around for 6 months OR plow through with IFR Rating. And yes, I do understand that IFR is not a license to go into ANY conditions, however, if I have to take year 2012 and research all NON-VFR days and split them into IFR/NOT, I bet I would get a lot more IFR days than NOT.
I look forward to your comments and wisdom!
As of today, I am still a student pilot going for PPL. Actually waiting for my instructor to call me back with a date for my check ride; hopefully this WILL happen next week. Its been very long 19 months, almost 100 hours and 3 schools later I finally got here
Questions for PROs:
Goal: Although I am not planning for an aviation career (too late for that ), my goal is to be able to transport my own sales team across the country, and I mean entire country (almost like an “internal” airline company). In the beginning I am anticipating that my trips will start small; we are based out of NY, so my initial trips will most likely be to Chicago, Indiana, Florida, Michigan, Cleveland, Boston in a PA-28-181 (Archer III) and given the weather that has a passion to constantly ruin VFR days, I am thinking to immediately go back to school and get my IFR.
Situation: I think I’ve been born as an IFR pilot, as from day “one” I’ve been in love with my instruments; I trust them, I use them on every flight, aside for VFR traffic avoidance, I hardly look out the window for flight references; I feel that my AI gives me a whole lot more than my eyes looking at horizon. However, my instructor keeps saying “you busted your ass for so long, go out and enjoy yourself on the good days, take a break for 6 months, and then start thinking if you’re up to it and do the Instrument rating”.
Dilemma: Although I’ve been seriously bitten by the “FLY” bug from the day I left the runway below, I am looking at this from an angle to combining pleasure with business. If I don’t get the IFR right away, this only means that I will not take the chance of flying my team anywhere, as I will be 99.9% of time paranoid of not being able to return home on a particular schedule; including messing with lives and schedules of people that work with me.As well as, not being able to go anywhere from the get go due to IMC conditions.
Question: Do I listen to the instructor and buzz around for 6 months OR plow through with IFR Rating. And yes, I do understand that IFR is not a license to go into ANY conditions, however, if I have to take year 2012 and research all NON-VFR days and split them into IFR/NOT, I bet I would get a lot more IFR days than NOT.
I look forward to your comments and wisdom!