So what would you do with $3,000 and 3 days?

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So here's my deal. I have about 700 hours almost all of it in a DA40 with a G1000 and SVT and most of it with an IR. Each year around this time I have always done a long 2,000 mile plus x country as a learning experience. This year I was thinking of Utah to the Bahamas but it now looks like I won't have the time for that trip.

So instead what would be the best learning/most fun aviation thing I could do in about 3 days for under $3,000. I though about a multi engine rating but I'm not sure how useful that would be for me. I also thought about an upset recovery class and maybe just renting some sim time in something like a Mirage which has similar avionics. I have never done any sim training. Maybe some tail wheel or glider time? Again, the goal is to gain practical and useful knowledge for the flying I do while having as much fun as possible.
 
Head up to idaho and get your T/W endorsement in a Super Cub or get your ASES rating. Those are the two items at the top of my list.
 
How about a seaplane rating? You could do airline tix, hotel, and course for under $3000.

Training justification - you will be more confident in your ditching capabilities on your trip next year to the bahamas.
 
Go over to Sheble and do a Seaplane rating. $3000 will even get you extra time in the Lake I believe. You'll have to toss in a little more to do the MES in the BE 18, but I rate it as highly worth it. ;)
 
Or go do some mountain flying out of McCall if their weather is ok
 
Vegas, and keep what happened to myself - and yes there would be aviation involved.
 
Jeanie said:
Or go do some mountain flying out of McCall if their weather is ok
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My buddy was just up on the snake river doing a 31 mile run this weekend, The folks at McCall were out and about in the canyons, the weather is on/off right now. $3000 won't be hard to burn through over there.
 
Henning said:
Only a Mormon can go to Vegas on $3k.
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I think I spent $500 there over the course of 3 days last time. I'll be going there for a week in April and I'm planning on that being less than a thousand.
EdFred said:
I generally double my money playing blackjack.
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Well -- you might as well quit your job then.
 
EdFred said:
I generally double my money playing blackjack.
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That leaves you $6k and gambling... that means you must be a baptist, you'll get a bottle and a hooker, get her back to the room, spend your hour belittling her and not really have sex or enjoy the experience...:rofl:
 
jesse said:
I think I spent $500 there over the course of 3 days last time. I'll be going there for a week in April and I'm planning on that being less than a thousand.

Well -- you might as well quit your job then.
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I've also lost it all too. It's not a perfect solution.
 
Henning said:
That leaves you $6k and gambling... that means you must be a baptist, you'll get a bottle and a hooker, get her back to the room, spend your hour belittling her and not really have sex or enjoy the experience...:rofl:
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Oh, it's ok. She wouldn't enjoy the experience anyway.
 
AirDC said:
:lol: Except the times that you lose all of your money and never talk about it again.
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If you understand the rules and have betting discipline doubling $3k is not difficult, though it may take a while, as in 2-3 days with average luck to do pretty safely. The primary mistake people make is to chase loosing hands with doubles lol. It's all in betting discipline and being able to keep a reasonable gouge on 10s and aces so 12 & 13 don't eat your lunch. You can also watch for over all density of high vs low cards coming out of the shoe.
 
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I think that is the right amount of time and money to get a SIC DC-3 endorsement from Dan Gryder down in Georgia.
 
Henning said:
If you understand the rules and have betting discipline doubling $3k is not difficult, though it may take a while, as in 2-3 days with average luck to do pretty safely. The primary mistake people make is to chase loosing hands with doubles lol. It's all in betting discipline and being able to keep a reasonable gouge on 10s and aces so 12 & 13 don't eat your lunch. You can also watch for over all density of high vs low cards coming out of the shoe.
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Or just play poker where you just wait (typically not very long) on other people to bet stupid and you give the house a cut for enabling you to do so.

With blackjack, the odds of you losing head for 100% the longer you sit there. You can fudge the odds with card counting etc.. but it's easier just to sit down at a poker table, find the 2-3 tourist that have been watching WSOP on ESPN, let them get a little money and emotion on the table then force them to either bet their next 6 months worth of mortgage payments or fold.
 
bartmc said:
Or just play poker where you just wait (typically not very long) on other people to bet stupid and you give the house a cut for enabling you to do so.

With blackjack, the odds of you losing head for 100% the longer you sit there. You can fudge the odds with card counting etc.. but it's easier just to sit down at a poker table, find the 2-3 tourist that have been watching WSOP on ESPN, let them get a little money and emotion on the table then force them to either bet their next 6 months worth of mortgage payments or fold.
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If you can find a poker table to get on.
 
Okay this thread is deja vu. I could have sworn I already read it and replied to it. I must be going nuts.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Okay this thread is deja vu. I could have sworn I already read it and replied to it. I must be going nuts.
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No, you did, you just did some things after that necessitated throwing you back in time until now; try not to do it again or you may end up like Groundhog Day.
 
bartmc said:
Or just play poker where you just wait (typically not very long) on other people to bet stupid and you give the house a cut for enabling you to do so.

With blackjack, the odds of you losing head for 100% the longer you sit there. You can fudge the odds with card counting etc.. but it's easier just to sit down at a poker table, find the 2-3 tourist that have been watching WSOP on ESPN, let them get a little money and emotion on the table then force them to either bet their next 6 months worth of mortgage payments or fold.
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I came to the sad realization last year that you have better odds of just walking up to a random person in the casino and betting $100 hands of rock paper scissor, or calling heads/tails, than you do at any table game.
 
AirDC said:
I came to the sad realization last year that you have better odds of just walking up to a random person in the casino and betting $100 hands of rock paper scissor, or calling heads/tails, than you do at any table game.
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Except one spot, a 'behind the line' bet in craps. It's the only even odds bet in the house.
 
AirDC said:
I came to the sad realization last year that you have better odds of just walking up to a random person in the casino and betting $100 hands of rock paper scissor, or calling heads/tails, than you do at any table game.
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well, yeah all the table games against the house are loaded in their favor that's how they put all those shiny lights up. Sports betting, I will never understand especially college level, anybody who shells out cash thinking they know what 18-22 year olds will do at any given time :confused:. Poker is the only game that you really have a shot at, you just have to hope that there's someone dumber than you at the table, which they usually aren't that hard to find thanks to ESPN and their coverage of the WSOP.

Like my buddy used to say, "Anything that has it's back against the wall and will challenge the world, won't lose very often"
 
dell30rb said:
There is a spin endorsement?
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Kind of, not really, if you're working towards a CFI you need one. You do not need an endorsement to do spins. But you're best off doing them with someone who has experience doing so before you do them solo.
 
AirDC said:
I came to the sad realization last year that you have better odds of just walking up to a random person in the casino and betting $100 hands of rock paper scissor, or calling heads/tails, than you do at any table game.
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Its kinda like learning that the tooth fairy is not real. Life will never be the same.

Apparently you handled it fine. The Jet Blue captain this week... not so much
 
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Mail me the 3K and save yourself the angst. I promise a full report. OR for a fun vacation flying treat go to Hawaii and rent a plane. I almost felt guilty getting paid to fly over there when Uncle "stuck" me at Barbers Point for a few years. Flying those islands is so different than the Keys or Bahamas because of the mountains and awesome scenery, (snow capped volcanoes, great waterfalls, etc)
 
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jtheune said:
I think that is the right amount of time and money to get a SIC DC-3 endorsement from Dan Gryder down in Georgia.
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Wow! That would be a hoot. For some reason I've wanted to fly a DC 3 since my first phase of training 20 years ago.
 
jesse said:
Kind of, not really, if you're working towards a CFI you need one. You do not need an endorsement to do spins. But you're best off doing them with someone who has experience doing so before you do them solo.
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Yeah...... sounds like a pretty good idea.....:D
 
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