| Are you one of those people that always ask for a | | | | year to make ownership a wise move. Sometime |
| window seat? Perhaps always watching the airplanes | | | | airplane owners will purchase a plane and then lease it |
| that fly overhead? As I was traveling from San Diego | | | | to a flight school to help defray ownership cost and |
| to Nashville on a Southwest flight I wondered how | | | | even make money. |
| many people on my flight ever thought about being a | | | | When you rent an airplane most rental companies |
| pilot. | | | | charge a daily minimum flying time charge, this makes |
| Maybe it?s time to get a new view ? from the pilot?s | | | | cross country trips possible since you only pay for the |
| seat of a small airplane! Flying a small plane is not as | | | | flying time, not the time the plane sits at your |
| hard or costly as you might think, and it?s a sure fire | | | | destination, while you have fun. |
| way to spice up your life and expand your mental | | | | People become pilots for all kinds of reasons, some |
| thinking abilities. | | | | travel for business, some do fly themselves so that |
| Learning to fly will cost you from $5,000 to $9,000 | | | | they can set their own schedules and avoid airport |
| depending on where and what type of plane you | | | | delays. Others learn to fly because it changes there |
| decide to fly. Many people grab one of those interest | | | | outlook on life, builds self-esteem and allows them to |
| free credit card offers for 6 months to a year and | | | | create memories that last a life time. For me, the |
| charge the lessons. Others choose the ?pay as you | | | | experience caused me to wake up and see life from |
| fly? concept. Either way 25-30 lessons later you will | | | | a whole new viewpoint, it actually helped me in my non |
| be sitting up front, taking your friends and family flying | | | | flying life. I think this was because of the sense of |
| and seeing the world from a new perspective. | | | | accomplishment and adventure I was experiencing has |
| Flying lessons can be taken a few times a week or a | | | | a result of learning to fly. |
| few times per month, much like any private one on | | | | Some people I know just take enough lessons to fly |
| one training you set the schedule. There are two types | | | | solo? and say they did it. The cost of doing that can |
| of study in learning how to fly, ground study and in the | | | | be less than $2000 at some flight schools. |
| airplane study. As a rule of thumb most of the time | | | | People all over the world have been fascinated by |
| you will need one hour of home study for every flight | | | | flight for hundreds of years and with today?s new |
| lesson.. Flight lessons are from 1.5 to 3 hours depending | | | | technology such as that found in the new Liberty XL2 |
| on the goal of the lesson. Some lessons are shorter | | | | aircraft, flying safe fun airplanes has never been easier |
| while others are longer. | | | | or more efficient. Whatever the reason people learn to |
| After you complete your training in say 2-5 months, | | | | fly, everyone that does it agrees that it is a life |
| you may rent an airplane for a cost of $70-$150 per | | | | changing experience that lasts a life time. Maybe its |
| hour depending on how fast and how fancy the | | | | because of the beauty one sees while flying, maybe |
| airplane is. Over 75% of pilots do not own an airplane, | | | | its because flight training is where we get to |
| most because it is far less costly over a year. Airplane | | | | experience and learn more about us and the weather |
| owners will tell you that a plane must fly 200+ hours a | | | | we live in. |