Hello to all, thought i had better introduce myself as i have been visiting this site daily for over 10 month's now and have totally enjoyed it and learnt so much, and then it hit me (like a saucepan over the head:hittinghead:) that i should be contributing as this is what the forums are all about.
A bit about myself, I live in Warrnambool, Vic and am a single parent(father), I have always been interested in aviation and thinking that i would never be able to afford it life moved on but the interests always remained, playing with and building R/C planes. Then one day on a regular trip to the newsagent i stumbled upon the "Recreational Aviation" Magazine reading it from front to back in one sitting the dreaming began and every month the same new mag front cover to back in one sitting.
Then on a motorbike trip in december 06 with friends to Gippsland we dropped into Latrobe Regional Airport to have a look as my mate is a helicopter nut, as we looked about the perimeter fence we came across Anthony Morrison from Pioneer Aviation after chatting for a bit and him showing us around in and through his new Jab he took us for a tour of the other hangers and got to see a large range of recreational aircraft and there pilots, well that was it the decision had been made, i had to find a way to get into rec aviation.
After getting home from that trip i began searching for places nearby that trained in rec aviation, checking price's etc.. i had just about decided on a school that was 45mins away when a mate forwarded on a email saying that the local flying school was getting a sportstar and beginning to train recreational pilots, so off to book-in for a Tif and now i'm 6.2 hours into my training loving every minute.