Training

Since I haven't had much of a chance to go out and training with a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI), I have been working on my own to learn how to fly. This has been a very interesting process. One of the things that I noticed right off is how much information I have to know to fly. I have to become a weatherman, navigator, pilot, communicator, and many other things. The thought of balancing all those tasks seems daunting, but I am sure that it will become second nature over time.

I have been reading several books, including ASA's test prep book. I plan on having the knowledge of how to fly in my head before actually training, so training will be more enjoyable for me rather than feeling like I am in gradeschool and having to study every night. Something else that has helped me is AOPA. I receive the monthly magazine, Flight Training, which has alot of great articles that are very interesting to read. I also found a few websites that offer practice exams for the written knowledge test. Their links are on the left side of the blog.

Overall, I am just excited to get started and can't wait to start!

Purchase Complete

We just completed the purchase of our Piper Cherokee on August 18th! We are all very excited about it and went out to dinner as a family to celebrate. The plane is still under some maintenance and should be flying in about 10 days.

My current plan is to get some money saved up from the rental of the plane to be able to start taking lessons. We are not exactly sure how much the plane will generate, only some estimates, so for now, we want to play it safe.

More to come on the training!

Flyboys Nevada, LLC Created

On July 14, 2008, Flyboys Nevada, LLC officially received its charter as a Nevada Limited-Liability Corporation. I am starting this company with a personal ambition to learn to fly and help others that may want to learn to fly to do the same. Since I was a little kid, I have always loved airplanes. I used to dream of flying and at one time wanted to be an astronaut. But, my desires to be and entrepeneur were much greater than flying, so I started a computer business when I was in high school. That completely consumes my time, but I still want to fly.

A few years ago, my wife bought me an introductory flight at a local flight school at Henderson Executive Airport, but the school shut down because of the expansion of the airport. That was the first of many setbacks to my road to flying. I feel that I am back on track now, and hope to, in this blog, share my experience of flying. I hope this encourages many others to do the same!