I'm hooked!

To back up the ‘always learning’ comments:

A quote from an article on Canadian Lake Pilots in Pilot Magazine a few years ago:

The hunters loaded up the aircraft with their kit and the prodigious spoils of their hunting, they taxied up to the end of the lake and turned into wind, full throttle was applied, but the aircraft only just got clear of the water before crashing into the trees at the other end. As the pilot was sitting there, upside down in his straps he said: “Funny, exactly the same thing happened last year!”

Thanks alot everyone, I’ll be sure to listen to everything pilots have to say.
Thanks for the tips,
Jonathan

So, when is your next one?

It’ll be “Effects of controls part two” in which you discover aeroplanes don’t always go where you point them!

Thanks alot everyone, I’ll be sure to listen to everything pilots have to say.
Thanks for the tips,
Jonathan

Once again Melvyn you have hit hte nail on the head. The bottom line is Have Fun

Go for it Speedy!

It is fun, it is addictive, it is expensive but you only live once. Listen to what you are told, don’t be afraid to change instructor if the one you have is taking control too much or not letting you learn and when you are around experience pilots keep your trap shut and your ears open as you can learn one hell of a lot.

Try to fly as much as you can and in as many different types, not just to type collect but to gain experience.

The other two pieces of advice I can offer are (from an interview I did with Dan Grifffith) Never fly to impress other people, only ever fly to impress yourself as you cannot bluff yourself and you have to be honest.

And the other is similar. If you make a mistake own up big time. If you forget to pull the flaps up after take off don’t try to hide it but learn from it, if you do something silly when out on your own and frighten yourself then talk to your instructor, or someone about it, and get to the bottom of it.

And have FUN.

Have fun

What is it they say? Learn from the mistakes of others as you won’t live long enough to make them all. There’s also the fact that some mistakes can have a teminal effect on one’s life. Anyway Speedbird you’ve caught the disease so I hope you realise that it is incurable and the medication is a tad expensive.

. I can now truly understand flight

LOL. Then you have reached more understanding in your 30 min. than I’ve done for the last 16 years of flying. The funny part is, you can never learn everything there is to learn about flight, no matter how much you fly. That’s what makes it such a wonderful thing, you are always learning something new! When you start your training, never fall into the pit of thinking you know it all.

Anyway, I think I know what you were trying to say. It was just how you said it that made me laugh 😀 😀