Hi Vampire

To be honest, I think this is a false economy? end of the day you both can’t book the hrs but only share the hr i.e. ½hr each, the only real way sharing flights is a benefit is that you could possibly fly further for the same money, you need 12 hrs is it? to have been flown in a 2 yr period for your licence revalidation? which includes 12 takeoffs & landing? (someone requote me if the figures are wrong), so unless you “landaway” you wont get your required takeoffs & landings in the same No of hrs if you shared & didnt land away.
Keeping current is always hard for the newly qualified PPL and is the lion share of the reason why so many PPLs let their licence lapse after obtaining. Theres no easy way around it if your budget is tight

Anyone else?

Dean

Welcome 182man

your very welcome here, as is everyone from all ilks & cultures 😀 we all share the same common denominator & thats flying 🙂

Good to share experiences from people across the pond etc
Your bird sounds like a nice plane to fly, any pics?

Dean

Still, woudl you rather it was spent on furthering my interest in flying, or spent on a Chav’s council house??? :diablo:

LOL

Im going for option 1 😉

If your an arrogant lil sh!t before your a pilot you’ll be an arrogant lil sh!t when you are a pilot, arrogance is inherant and something I hate, but do I let it get to me? naaa, are some airline pilots arrogant? hell yes, are some GA pilots arrogant? hell yes, are some people I work with arrogant? hell yes, am I going to lose sleep over it? hell no, get over it chaps & chappettes, society today is the epitamy of the diverse human:)

My view

Now Im just a mere PPL with 90 odd hrs who is just starting his ATPLs towards his fATPL
Id say that most, if not all GA pilots have not experienced a large amount of time on a flight deck of an airliner, but all commercial pilots have experienced time in a GA aircraft. (exclusive of the ex airline pilots now instructing etc)
Id say that most GA pilots have not gone through the process of obtaining a type rating and flying a GA aircraft which weighs in the ‘tonne’ catagory, but all commercial pilots have experienced time in a GA aircraft. (exclusive of the ex airline pilots now instructing etc)
Id say that most GA pilots have not undertaken the ground exams for the ATPL/CPL/IR/MER/JOT/MCC/TR/ etc but nearly all commercial pilots have undertaken these.
Id say that most GA pilots have not accrued thousands of flight hrs in their log book (exclusive of the ex airline pilots now instructing etc) but most/if not all commercial pilots have (new ATPLs obviously have not)

Now the list goes on, so in general the commercial pilot has more experience than the ‘average’ GA pilot and that has to be a fact (rememeber there are always exceptions to every rule)

To be honest, with the position Im in, and the workload I have ahead of me, Im not blind to the fact that the road ahead is a long and difficult one and I know what is expected of me, and for this I take my hat off to EVERYONE who has made it to the flight deck, it IS something to be proud of, and for the arrogance? who cares 😉

Dean

edited cos I can’t spell

Cost to me = £15 messing. Cost to taxpayer = £££££s!

so THATS why Im paying £11,000 per yr to the taxman?

that was ‘R’

Do you know Dean, for a moment I thought you were suggesting that the rules and regulations surrounding the JAR PPL were confusing and contradictory.

No, of course you are not . . .