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NW_Pilot · July 13th, 2007, 17:29

Well, I met with the "partners" this morning for breakfast and did a bit of grippin' and grinnin' and told them straight up that I was VERY underqualified at this point in time to fly this bird and that it would take nothing short of a miracle to become qual'd to be able to fly it in the amount of time they have to do it. Let's just say the meeting went well "in my eyes", and the probability of them shelling out a boatload of cash to make this happen didn't seem to phase them.

They proposed if possible, a low paying position as co-pilot on another PC12 (once qual'd) and said that paying for my Instrument/Comm/CFII/MEII might not be out of the question as in the end it would benifit them as well as me. I'm not quitting my day job yet but if the cards fall right I may be back in flight school full time very soon. Am I excited?, You betcha! But at this point i'm so stressed out by the "carrot" dangling in front of me that I can't stop looking skyward and thinking about seriously flying again, needless to say i'm not getting much work done..

I had to put aviation to the side in 2002 after my wife was almost killed in a horrible motorcycle accident, mere hours away from my inst. rating and comm. ticket and have only been kicking myself for spending $18k to get to that point. The possibility of getting back into it and to have some or all of it paid for is more than I could ever imagine.

We're all going to Boise to see the PC12 first hand and talk to the seller about arrainging some sort of co-pilot type situation but i'll have to wait and see how it goes down. Hopefully this is not the last entry in this once in a lifetime oppurtunity. In the mean time I went to my old FBO and did a quick "refresher" talked about some options and scheduled some time in the air.

NW-Pilot...OUT!

July 13th, 2007, 17:29	#9
NW_Pilot Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 59	Re: PC12 purchase...need lots of hours fast Well, I met with the "partners" this morning for breakfast and did a bit of grippin' and grinnin' and told them straight up that I was VERY underqualified at this point in time to fly this bird and that it would take nothing short of a miracle to become qual'd to be able to fly it in the amount of time they have to do it. Let's just say the meeting went well "in my eyes", and the probability of them shelling out a boatload of cash to make this happen didn't seem to phase them. They proposed if possible, a low paying position as co-pilot on another PC12 (once qual'd) and said that paying for my Instrument/Comm/CFII/MEII might not be out of the question as in the end it would benifit them as well as me. I'm not quitting my day job yet but if the cards fall right I may be back in flight school full time very soon. Am I excited?, You betcha! But at this point i'm so stressed out by the "carrot" dangling in front of me that I can't stop looking skyward and thinking about seriously flying again, needless to say i'm not getting much work done.. I had to put aviation to the side in 2002 after my wife was almost killed in a horrible motorcycle accident, mere hours away from my inst. rating and comm. ticket and have only been kicking myself for spending $18k to get to that point. The possibility of getting back into it and to have some or all of it paid for is more than I could ever imagine. We're all going to Boise to see the PC12 first hand and talk to the seller about arrainging some sort of co-pilot type situation but i'll have to wait and see how it goes down. Hopefully this is not the last entry in this once in a lifetime oppurtunity. In the mean time I went to my old FBO and did a quick "refresher" talked about some options and scheduled some time in the air. NW-Pilot...OUT! __________________ " There's old pilots, and there's bold pilots, but there aren't many old bold pilots"