get my pilot's license

Every time I pay off a bill, I will try and do a little something towards learning to fly.

http://www.liveATC.net You can listen in live (a few seconds delay, depending on the internet) on various airports at this website. I am currently listening to Class C airport KOAK – and OMG, everyone sounds like they are talking at double speed and in code again! 6 months ago, it sounded like normal conversation and I could take a diagram of the airport and figure out where the planes were! OK, another thing I can become really good at while I’m waiting for that next trip up into the air.

Due to my husband’s job (and possible jobless) situation, I have set aside flying lessons for the moment. But that does not mean I am going to stop progressing towards my pilot’s license! I passed my “written,” but that knowledge is perishable! I have to get back into studying. I am going on a trip next month – time to get the charts out, study the weather and pretend I’m going to be PIC! By the time I am in the left seat again, I want to be so overly prepared on the booklearning side of things that I will just blow my instructor away. I am trying hard to keep thinking of this delay as an OPPORTUNITY to really, really know my stuff for chart reading, weather reading, fuel burn and efficiency, all the cool physics of flying and etc. Not like I just took a class and passed the test, but like this knowledge is a part of me. I missed a lot of navigation questions on my test (my husband thinks that is not surprising as I can’t navigate when driving, either), so I know that’s one thing I need to study.

So, how to stay motivated? Study one topic a week and learn it really in depth. Every time I travel (and I travel a lot for work), get the charts, call ATIS, do the homework like I’m going to be the one flying the plane (ooh, can you imagine if I could even fly RIGHT seat on a Southwest 737? ...Ok, I’m thrilled to have even been able to be in a 172, but just think!)

Ok, so, I have all the tools… I’ll use the table of contents in my book from school as my guide, and I’ll get to it. I want to be able to know this stuff in my sleep so when I’m finally in the air again, it will all come together!

I can do it. I can do it. I WON’T give up.

When I was a little girl I would swing on my tire swing and go higher and higher and would never look down but would pretend I was actually flying. I also spent a great deal of my childhood climbing trees and hiking to the top of mountains. I love being up in the air and have always wanted to get a pilots license and fly my own plane.

I have spent the last 22 years as a mother and for practical reasons have put most of my dreams on hold. Now that my children are leaving the nest, however, some of those old dreams are getting my attention once again.

One of those dreams is to own a remote cottage or cabin in the mountains somewhere (maybe Alaksa, Colorado or Montana, etc…) and have my own small plane and pilots license to be able to fly there.

Went on a business trip, so while I wasn’t PIC, I did a few of those PIC things…have to keep practicing!

• I checked weather conditions at my departure and arrival airports
• Used my charts and followed our flight – and even correctly predicted where we would come out of the mountains
• Reviewed Class C airspace rules

have never tried to motivate myself obtaining the pilot license. Might be too expensive.

Sooooo awesome! Makes me ache to get into the left seat again – inspiration to get out of debt, make more money and GET MY TICKET! I know I’m wayyyy too old to become a fighter pilot, LOL, but I DID get to have my picture taken from the right seat of a Hughey (OK, so the helo was on the ground and turned OFF, but still, how fun!).

I flew out to San Diego for work this evening on Southwest – tried to remember everything I know about flying while on board… scary how much I have forgotten. I will probably have to do ground school all over again when the time comes – not just to pass a test, but to be a safe pilot. Gosh, I miss being in the left seat.

Always wanted to learn to fly

I actually had this goal since I was a little child. But my father said this is much to expensive and I furthermore won’t get a chance because of my glasses. So I forget this goal and some years ago – while watching some Cessnas in the sky – it came back. I got some informations and learnt that glasses are no problem for making a private pilot license and the costs are high but not unrealistic.

If only it wasent so incredibly expensive