Hello from the west coast

[Guest Lenroy]

Hi all

 

I am a 30 year old Private Pilot in Western Australia(Perth) I currently work with Bhp Billiton on a minesite doing a few roles. In my very precious RnR i enjoy of course flying.

 

Started flying in Geraldton still hold the record there i believe of 5.1 hours till Solo. I stopped for sometime then ressummed in Murrayfield( so then had the pleasure of going sort of solo again haha) then needed CTA experience for my PPL so started to fly out of Jandakot. Just recently aquiring my PPL. So now i have the pleasure of starting to build up my hours so i can consider one day CPL. Plans this year are NVFR and Aeros possibly IFR. Long term plan in 3-4 years is to have CPL with a instructor rating. Would be sooner but need a balance between making money,growing a family and contemplating a Career change.

 

Apart from that i enjoy bringing up my 7 month old daughter with my lovely partner of course. Playing a few rounds of Golf. Part time simulation,part time r/c chopper( allthough I seem to be more a repairer at these than a pilot ). Love the beach obviously growing up on the coast. Diving also so i go from the depths to the skies

 

Lenroy

 

 

[Coop]

Hi allLong term plan in 3-4 years is to have CPL with a instructor rating.

Welcome Lenroy, and good luck on your adventures in aviation.

 

A suggestion: Get into the cheapest aviation you can find and build your experience. Maybe LSA, maybe a syndicate aircraft, perhaps gliding (free flying if you qualify to drive a tug plane and get onto their roster).

 

Almost any sort of flying experience will do, but get as much as you can before you become an instructor. There are too many instructors with limited or narrow ranges of experience who know how to instruct, but don't know much about aviation in general.

 

Your eye-hand coordination must be pretty good if you are flying R/C Helicopters. I read once about a competition between R/C helicopter pilots and real helicopter pilots where each tried to fly the other's equipment (under instruction, of course). The R/C pilots made a fair fist of flying the real thing, but when the boot was on the other foot, the Real helicopter pilots had almost no luck trying to fly the R/C choppers.

 

Regards

 

Coop

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

G'day Lenroy and welcome to the forums. Look forward to your stories