My First landing

[Chrism]

Hi to everyone at RecFlying,

 

I feel like the luckiest man on earth....I have always wanted to learn to fly but always been too poor/affraid/unsure/busy to do so.

 

Until my now wife bought me a TIF (my fist of many acronyms, no doubt!)and encouraged me to finally do what I've always wanted. Not only that she's also happy for me to work part-time/casually so that I can make learning a priority. How good is that? ;)

 

Perhaps 20 years of procrastination will pay off....over those years it's awesome to see the ultralight 'world' develop into the RA scene as a cheaper (and better?) way to learn than via PPL, and to have great sites and communities like this one.

 

I have been researching schools/clubs to learn with, and Gostner at Camden seems pretty good to me so far. They offer RA all the way to ATPL , but are more expensive than most for say per hour of a J160. The CFI (I think) has 1000 and 1000's of hrs of instruction so perhaps the extra expense will be well worth it. Does anyone have any recommendations or other suggestions? I live on the inner North Shore. And no I'm not wealthy!

 

Thanks all, I hope my first landing wasn' too 'heavy'!

 

Chrism

 

 

[Guest Decca]

to you too Chrism.

 

You sure have done your research, even to the point of finding these fantastic forums.

 

I don’t know why the ultralights might be more expensive on a dual (instructor) basis unless they are VH registered. With development of autopilots, glass cockpits etc unless anyone else can add a reason, I can’t see why state of the art ultralights couldn’t be used up to ATPL standard.

 

And to do that it would have to be VH reg for night VFR, CTA etc.

 

We’d be stealing your just landed thread if we continued on this line, so someone might like to take it further in say the Training forum.

 

Regards, Decca.

 

PS Your landing was Just Right (is now).