Just got my 1st hour of flying!

[Emergency]

Alright, you all might have seen my old topic of just being interested in flying. But now, I'm in love with it!!

This morning, at about 11:30, I went down to a local regional airport and met up with my flight instructor, who was very nice. We took off, and I was able to fly for about 30 minutes. Then my foot fell asleep (anyone know how to prevent this?) and it woke back up when we were about to land. I learned a lot, and I am going to continue to get my pilots license this spring. I will take lessons every 2 weeks. I love flying!!

EDIT: I flew in a Cessna-172

[meritflyer]

Its a great feeling! Now, just know that there will be some seriously frustrating moments but stick with it. Work through them. Just growing pains.

As for the foot falling asleep? Tell it to pay attention!

[HH-60CC]

Originally Posted by meritflyer

Its a great feeling! Now, just know that there will be some seriously frustrating moments but stick with it. Work through them. Just growing pains.

Yeah, like prepping for the oral portion of the checkride *yeesh*

anyway, congrats!

[Crockrocket94]

Congrats on getting in the air!

Just a word of advice, try to fly as often as possible, because flying every two weeks makes it hard to become profficient. The best way possible is to "do it all at once", and not take long breaks between each lesson.

I started flying around June of 2001, and I flew probably once a week for about 3 months, then I would have a string of days together, and then due to school or whatever excuse, i would not fly for two or three weeks. This resulted in a long, drawn out path. After probably 2 years and 50 hours, i decided that i had to put college in the forefront and aviation in the back, its hard but financial and personal reasons got in the way.

About my senior year in college, around April 2006, i decided to take up flying again at a local FBO near the school. So I commuted there maybe 2 or 3 times a week, which was nicer than i had done before, but still nowhere near what I needed. I graduated from college still sans a Private Pilot and got pretty discouraged that I wasnt able to complete it part 61 in the remaining 2 months from April to May. Mind you i had around 70 hours and about 95 percent of the part 61 requirements fulfilled.

I have always enjoyed flying, and there hasnt been too many troublesome experiences with it, other than taking a long drawn out path to get the private... and I had entertained the idea of flying professionally in High School and early in college, but I wasn't sure I wanted to by the end of my Junior year in 2005. However, fast-forward a year and one BA in History, and the disgust to go into higher education, be it Law or Grad School of some discription and it bacame apparent that I wanted to do something i truly enjoyed and that I did not want to do because "there was money in it".

About June 2006, i went on a power tour of Flight schools, ranging from MESA, RAA, American Flyers, FlightSafety, etc, and with the help of my uncle, who had been in the aviation business from 1989 to about 1993, until he was furloughed by Mark Air up in Alaska, I decided upon Flight Safety.

I am not trying to persuade anyone to go to FSA, its a personal choice and an expensive one. But the point is, I got my PPL pretty fast once I got down to FSA. I did as much flying in 2-3 weeks as I had done in 2 to 3 years elsewhere.

For me, doing it all at once in a 1 to 1.5 month period would have been much more efficent and cost effective.

I recomment trying to complete the PPL in a block of time rather than taking it every two weeks.

I hope this helped a little bit, and if you have any questions feel free to PM.

Oh I am new to JC as well, but I have been a lurker for some time, (i dont know maybe 4 months) There is a wealth of information floating around here and I have become more knowledgable even by hanging around here.
It is a great site! Good Luck with your ppl!

[flyguy969]

As noted above -- fly AS OFTEN as possible. I just received my PPL took about 10 months. I paid for it completely out of pocket and when there were times when the pockets were empty I could not go and that meant I would forget things that my instructor and I would have to review which cost more $$$. But regardless I still think I finished in a relatively short time. Bottom line FLY FLY FLY. And there will always be little concepts that you may not understand or forget and that is why JC is here. Post anything you like; we will help, there are extremely knowledgeable pilots on this board. Good luck!!!

[SeanD]

Yes on the frequency of flying. I made that mistake and now Im having to go over things I already went over earlier in my training such as slow flight and landings . It is not like riding a bike. You will forget things. Good luck and enojoy it.