MX vs Flying

I have been wanting to put up a post about Private pilots licence. I am going to start my flying next weekend. I hope to get my licence in the next 12-18 months. I doubt I will ever get to Jet level but the thrill of flying solo will be worth the price. The only merit badge I ever got when in boy scouts was my aviation badge. The older I get the more it hurts to ride at the pace I love. I am hoping flying will bring some of that back.

Do it!

I dont know much about flying but this looks like fun. It also looks a bit tired of livin' One error and I think they are doing a recovery rather then rescue.

Pushing the power up on a transport category jet in bad weather is the 2nd best thrill I've ever experienced, landing that same jet in foul weather would be the first. For those moments alone it is the best job in the world.


Now everything else that goes with it....not so great.


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Want a real rush, have someone else fly you up, then open the door and jump out

Can't imagine anything with a higher pucker factor than a pitching and rolling runway.

O.K. maybe one... Doping the same thing at night.

Find someone with a Citabria or an Aeronca Champ and have fun Lazy 8'ing around the planet.


Smiles for days, and the Champ is cheap on fuel, though with the Citabria you can play in the sky a bit more.

I prefer planes but am on a bike budget.

Yeah, that would be the problem with "flying for fun"....

If anyone thinks MX is expensive....

I live near a US Army base (Ft Campbell, Ky) and get to see alot of army helos , and a few asst planes also. My nieghbor is a US Army warrant officer and flys a AH -64 CH-47 Chinook UH-60 Black hawk

Anyways last summer, just before my nieghbor deployed, he asked if i would like to see the Apachie flight simulator, i was said heck yea , so we went out there and he pulled strings with someone and dam if i didnt get to try it, awesome experiance to say they least, and hard to do man, it takes both feet and both hands to fly a helo, lol they call the simulator a 90 mil $ video game , lol

MX is one of the cheapest adult hobbies you can have. Hell I spend more on Hookers and blow than MX.

hear hear.

The first time I went flying with my friend in his ultra light, we had to stop at the end of the run way with the door open for 10 mins. I was breathing so fast, I fogged up the window.


We used to have so much fun me and Jerry, until he flew him and his 10 year old son into the side of a mountain.


RIP Jerry and Paul

The ex has a plane, Aaron took this picture on his way to SF.

My kid just took his first lesson today. I got him set up for an hour a week should be ready to solo on his 16th birthday in August. I just got back into it as well. Gotta do a biannual flight review which will take awhile because I haven't flown since 96. Looking forward to doing this with my kid though. Finally I'll have someone to fly with.

Did he decide on Helis or fixed wing?

Fixed wing. Tough job market for helicopters.

True, not many high paying jobs and the ones that do don't open up very often.

I have to say that flying a plane gives me much more rush and sense of achievement than clear a scary (to me) jump. I have had these rushes landing on small bush strips, taking off from some challenging ones, shooting IFR approaches in bad weather, when you're bounced around in a Caravan and popping out, on a 1 miles final, right on path, seeing that strip or runway there right where it was meant to be, great thrills, huge rush.

One of my favorite moments, flying in Africa were the early morning flights out of Arusha airport, in bad weather with low visi, flying our company's IFR departure and emerging right where you are supposed to be, over the layer, in the early morning African sunrise, with Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru peaking out of the clouds on my right wing. Up there in the smooth, silky, air... Outstanding feeling.

The same rush I get jumping a bike, I would compare it with the low level flights I would do for fun (and practice) every time I would fly to out of the bush, without passengers, trying to make it back to base, at 100 ft agl (and lower sometimes ) with my GPS switched off... yes, the word 'rush' is proper for that

If I could do it again though, there is no doubt that Navy pilot would be my calling. These guys are my heroes.