How long is too long.

[Earl Pike]

Remember when you were a kid and you would fly anythIng with a string and a rubber band. Then you got a paper round and could afford engines and you were going to be fighter pilot. But life gets in the way and these distractions get in the way of life, relationships, kids, mortgages and the whole catastrophe. Then one day the kids are gone, and on fathers day you get a TIF, and that's the front end of the beginning.

 

Do you save up and take 4 weeks of work and do it in one go, or take a year. I took a year, which turned into 2, then 3. Work issues, trips overseas, bad weather, and when you get back the bloke you had when you left has gone and you start again with a new instructor.

 

Then you just get it all together and you are off again, interstate, work, the weddings and increasingly more common grandparent responsibilities.

 

Then you make a concentrated effort, because you just ordered a plane which will arrive 6 months earlier than you thought. Then it happens, the weather turns on a good one and you do it.

 

Many thanks to all that taught me that flying is a thought process supported by appropriate activity. Jonathan, Brett, Brent, Matt, James, Laurie, Graham, and especially Kerry who refused to be frightened.

 

Just navs and pax to go, in my plane.

 

Just nav

 

 

[rdarby]

It took me 10 years, true with most of the time not doing anything in between, but when I got my certificate just before Christmas it was a huge life goal. It's never too long. You can fly even when it's only in your mind, and that can keep you going until life moves aside so real living can go on!

 

 

[Guest davidh10]

It is too long if you become despondent and give it away. Clearly you didn't, so congratulations and also welcome to the forums.

 

 

[sfGnome]

Youth is wasted on the young! Sometimes you just have to get to a certain age before you get on and do the stuff you always wanted to. Don't think that I've quite reached the "I can afford ownership" stage yet though

 

 

[facthunter]

It will take more hours if you string it out, but if you are having fun along the way, it doesn't really matter. IF you are a bit lazy, you might have to motivate yourself and make the effort eventually. Keep the theory ahead of the practice and keep your theory current. Flying only now and again you might fall behind with some of the changes and get caught out. THIS applies even if you already have you certificate. Nev