A Facepuncher Learns to Fly

[L-NAESA]

One time I flicked a toothpick at a helicopter and it crashed.

[Peluri]

[QUOTE=L-NAESA;19464520]One time I flicked a toothpick at a helicopter and it crashed.[/QUOTE]

once i took out a tank with my riot shield :350:

[SBD]

[QUOTE=Methylparaben;19463980]how much is it costing you?[/QUOTE]
It'll be around the $50-60k mark to get to CPL level.

[QUOTE=Near Elite;19464222]Nice plane yo. Is it expensive?[/QUOTE]
I'd say it would have been around 80-100k new.
[QUOTE=DrumStick;19464277]Oo you live near Jandakot? I live about 20 minutes south from there.[/QUOTE]
Hehe, I'm like 15 minutes west.

For those of you who are concerned with the price of flying, I suggest to look into getting your Ultralight/Light Sport license. It's cheaper, you don't need as stringent a medical as you do for regular PPL and utralight technology has come quite far, some of the more advanced aeroplanes are quite high performing.

[mr-kaki]

You should smoke marijuana while flying so you can get high while getting high.

[Kymandu]

Congrats champ.

[skidude28]

I would love to get my flying license when I get older! Good job, OP.

[suttles]

Nice job. Good luck in the future OP.

Is it scary?

[smurfy]

Can you fly to my house?

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/fcb.png[/img]

There's a map.

[r4nk_]

Jandakot hey, I live in perth aswell :v:

[VikCreamCake]

[QUOTE=iownuall;19461635]Judging by your avatar, I am guessing your training will be short lived.[/QUOTE]

I lol'd.

[Benji]

Sounds really awesome. I'd love to do something like that.

[Vexont]

Just remember - Never go scubba diving and flying in the same day in that order.

Good luck getting your commercial license! :buddy:

[Erp]

i wanna fly

[Kawaii]

Now Facepunch can travel to distant lands, and enrich the society.

[Peacekid]

Once you can fly, get that instructor and join the mile high club OP

[blackdenton]

Congrats. I'm a private pilot myself, working on my instrument rating right now. I have about 80 hours. I remember my first lesson more than my first solo, it's a great experience. My boss let me sit copilot on his plane on the way back from Florida over break. Sure beats taking an airline back! [url]http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N43368/history/20100102/1941Z/KFMY/KEVV[/url]

[Tyler72493]

Put the FP logo on the wing.

[darkavenger]

I envy you so much, I don't have the money for flight school or lessons right now. Hell, I heard private lessons can run around $5000 for the whole course, sure as hell can't pay that...
Speaking of which, how much are you paying?

[GrubFlyer]

Fuck Lucky

Anyways I hope to go to embry riddle on ROTC partial scholarship. We are moderately poor so hopefully embry riddle will grant me a need base scholarship.

fuck i wanna fly

[srag]

Avoid flat spins, they suck. Hard.

[Luleychan]

[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;19464294]Thread music?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vWuYYnSB4[/media][/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO6giM9UAv0[/media]

Fixed.

I would tell you to do a barrel roll, but I'm not sure if its a meme or not. :saddowns:

[tjl]

So are you trying to become a freight transport pilot or do you want to fly people around?

[adadr]

Man your lucky. I've wanted to fly ever since 2nd grade and I hope I can take flight school after highschool sometime

[SBD]

[QUOTE=Suttles;19468555]Nice job. Good luck in the future OP.

Is it scary?[/QUOTE]
It actually feels quite natural. Not always pulling exactly 1 G will take a bit of getting used to however.

[QUOTE=tjl;19480502]So are you trying to become a freight transport pilot or do you want to fly people around?[/QUOTE]
Dunno yet, I'll have to toss up the money of airline flying versus its sheer boredom.

[Naas]

I wish I could become a pilot. The rules about flying and diabetes are quite strict.

[Amber902]

Judging by the OP's name, he wants to be a dive bomber.

[varj]

SBD, Remember your parachute when you take off!

[BlueSaint]

Don't forget auto-pilot when you got a chick up there, she will never frogive you if you crash.

[Llyod]

Battlefield? xD

[Big Dumb Patriot]

You'll love it. I've been flying for a while now. Interesting choice of training craft. Most of the flight schools I've been too train primarily in Cessna 152's or 172's, as they're very stable aircraft. However, that forward Canard on your bird makes it almost impossible to put that thing in a full stall. The forward air foil will stall before the primary air foil, causing your nose to drop automatically and prevent an actual stall from occurring on your primary means of lift. Basically, you get training wheels.

You'll have a great time with this. I'm having to go through ground school again as part of my training in the military, so if you have any questions please feel free to ask. I could use the extra studying, and you could probably use some help as well.