I like these polls.

Half an hour in a Piper Cherokee 180.

Brilliant!  I might get back up soon as I'm going to apply for some flying scholarships through the cadets this year now I'm old enough...

donnie;

We need to name you "POLL MASTER"

We've done this several times, and some are
most likely tired of my story, But who cares
about them!!!!

About 1200 hrs logged, bad eyes, never got
a lience!
Learned in a 8E Luscombe, have flown many
differant aircraft, the best was Mr. Mulligan!!
The biggest was a B-25, the best flying was
a Greatlakes biplane! Most hrs in 310.
This is over about 45 years!!

X

PS For those who didn't see it in my other
     post, Kimber starts flying leasons Tue.
 

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We've noticed!!

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27 jumps, at Uncle Sams request!!! 8)

X

My first excursion was from the rear door of
a C-130, with a very large, very black,[very good man] sargent, yelling "RUN! RUN! RUN!", I was
well away from the AC before I saw the ground,
after that, it's no big deal!!!

X

I've got about 10 hours on various light aircraft, C172, 152, Piper tomohawk, Jodel etc. I also flew grob Vikings in the ATC. And like Ozzy I willingly fall out of C.206s. Another couple of jumps and I'll be able to start AFF .

I was going to respond, when I caught BRENSEC'S penguin thing, and just about peed myself. That de-railed my train of thought.              Oh yeah, I fly for a living, but generally the passengers don't like it when you roll inverted and crash the airplane, so I have my real fun when I come home and get on the computer.

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I think if anyone removes the Penguins because of the size of the file, they are going to have a fight on their hands..............lol

I still can't stop giggling like a school girl when I see it............

Paul I'm sure the oil was your own fault. You aren't meant to play with the engines whilst airborne! No matter how interesting they look.....

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Pretty much the same story with everything English. At least every English bike I ever had anything to do with (Triumph. Norton, BSA) had to leak oil, otherwise you took it back to the dealer because there was something wrong with it!..........................lol

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Referred to by all & sundry as Dripsy Majors. The reason I opted to be an airframe (rather than engine) fitter.   8)

I'm going to begin my flight training within the next week or so (I was going to go yesterday, but the forecast called for rain, so I postponed it...and of course it didn't rain).

As far as passenger time, I've got time in a Cessna (1 flight when I was like 4...got me hooked even then!), a few in hot air balloons, and literally thousands of hours in commercial planes ranging from the B1900D to the Boeing 777-200ER.  (Flight Attendant for Continental.  lol)

Most of the time I was with CAL though, was spent in the pit....it's much more fun there than in the cabin!

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Do you blokes in the US have to 'sign up' for a course or something? I get this indication when people are saying things like 'Have to find $XXXX before I can ..........".

As I said I have had a TIF and will have my medical (fingers crossed, for me), shortly. But all we have to do here is buy the 'Student kit' with the log book and manual etc for $140-00, and from then on you can take 10 years to get to your GFPT if you like. Then another 5 years to get your PPL, if you choose.
I'm planning on having around 1 lesson every 2 or 3 weeks (quicker if I come across some extra $ in some way) and I can discontinue any time and take up again years later.
With a minimum of 30 hrs to get my GFPT, it will probably take over a year to get there, but that's OK.

Is it the same in the UK and US or is it, as I said, a bigger committment, short term, money wise, to go for a PPL?  

P.S. I don't want to seem facetious, I know there are people whose financial situation doesn't allow even a long term committment of a small amount (I've been there). But now that my kids are all grown up and there's just the Mrs and I, and I am still able to work (semi retired), I'm able to do it over an extended period (otherwise i couldn't commit either, to a short period involving $000's). So I'm just wondering if that's not possible in other places.

I see. That's pretty cheap. The lessons here are usually the hiring cost of the plane plus about $30 or $40 for the instructor. (That's Australian dollars, of course).
http://www.liverpoolflyingschool.com.au/#Anchor-Aircraf-25612

Yep, I saw the GRITS site - I said so in a post just after you gave the link ("I see, it's all clear to me now") is what I said. Sorry, maybe not clear enough. But thanks, now I know another wonderful fact..................lol

i have flown a couple of helis and props for fun. . .but i use to fly f-14's for the navy

Brensec;

The "first" leason is $49!  all included,
That's 30 minute ground school, and
a 45 minute flight!! Kimbers first leason
ran about 3 hours and was with all her
books, CD, Eguip, log book, and  nav.
aids, $450, I haven't looked at the break
down!
If you just take the First leason it is $49!!

X
Brad

Hi! Stormy;

That 'little' girl is ME! I had just turned 16!
and was already 5'10", Sometimes it was
rough, to be so tall and all your friend are
a foot shorter!! I really liked the picture,
PaPa has it on his desk!!

Reguards
Kimberle'Mare'

LOL...everyone's taller than me.   My best pal's month younger than me and he's alreay 6'3"!  I'm still 5'9",,,

Kimber, I'm just about to turn 16...may I say you were a beautiful teenager?

I've flown every one of the options exept a fighter Jet. Yes the flight controls are alot different (Especially in the 737). lets see i've flown: DeHavilland Dash 8-100, DHC-6, DHC-? Buffalo, Boeing 737-400, 720-100, Bell 206L, Learjet 34, 45, 25, Cessna Caravan, 172SP, 182T, 182RG, Beechcraft Baron, 1900D, and Yak-18T.

LOL...what can we say...we're boys.

well after trying another avenue for my pilots license's i have found another road block, but i refuse to give up, i have gone down so many roads for this that i cant quit now:) i will get those minimum required hours, for my atpl. my puny 3 hours logged will soon change.

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What exactly, is the problem. Is it the money?
If so, time will probably solve that one.......eventually. 

When I was 8 I lived in the Texas Panhandle, just outside of Amarillo, on what used to be one of the biggest cattle ranches in the US.

One evening, just before a really nasty storm a cropduster landed on the road right outside our little cluster of houses .  He tied his duster up outside and spent the night.  In the morning it was halfway across the field and sitting in a puddle of mud up past the axles.   Myself and two other little boys assisted in the digging out and recieved as payment fifteen minutes in the air each.

My turn consisted of him taking off, making a 90 degree turn and then bouncing off the roof of the barn.  (Yeah, barnstorming!)  Then he let me handle the stick while he did the rudder.  Didn't last too long.  Ten seconds after he let go I dipped the wings to about seventy degrees and we were about to go into the ground (about 300 ft) when he yanked the stick away.

After landing I noticed his heart beating through his shirt.  Lots of FUN!