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Aviation Flight Training/ Personal Stories: First Training Flight

By benwillis 171 days ago from http://aviationflighttrainingpersonalstories.blogspot.com

I got interested in aviation at around age thirty. A little older than most flight training students that I know. I had a friend who was an A&P mechanic and had access to private planes that belonged to people that he had done work for. He asked me if I would like to go flying with another friend and him one Saturday morning. H

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Aviation Flight Training/ Personal Stories: Beginning Flight Training

By benwillis 171 days ago from http://aviationflighttrainingpersonalstories.blogspot.com

After my first flight with a flight training instructor where I got to handle the controls somewhat, I decided that I wanted to learn how to fly. I was making decent money on my job and could afford the lessons, so I signed up and paid some cash in advance. I was going to fly one hour a week. Thinking back I realize that I sho

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Aviation Flight Training/ Personal Stories/ New Flight Instructor

By benwillis 160 days ago from http://aviationflighttrainingpersonalstories.blogspot.com

Time for a new flight instructor. My old one left to go fly a Lear Jet. I was taking flying lessons from a local FBO and must admit that I was pretty naive about flight training curriculum and didn't even know that there was a syllabus to be followed. Evidently, neither did any of my first two flight instructors because I got

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Aviation Flight Training/ Personal Stories: Professional Flight School/ Orientation

By benwillis 154 days ago from http://aviationflighttrainingpersonalstories.blogspot.com

My last few posts told of my experiences with a local FBO and the beginning of my aviation flight training. Looking back, it was a waste of time and money. They brought me to my first solo flight and that was it. Not all FBO's were like this because I dealt with some very good ones later on. I have been out of aviation for a f

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Aviation Flight Training/ Personal Stories: Post Second First Solo Flight Training

By benwillis 144 days ago from http://aviationflighttrainingpersonalstories.blogspot.com

If the title of this article is confusing, let me explain. I started my flight training some months earlier at a local FBO in a PA-28. I had already soloed several times before I joined a professional flight school and started flying a Cessna 152. My earlier training was so inadequate that I had to start over from stage one. I

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