A Couple of Steps Away

corey    Flying    

Hopefully, I’ve taken my second-to-last flight with my instructor on my road to the Private Pilot License. I’m scheduled to fly this Friday with another instructor for my final Stage Check. This Stage Check is where they make sure I’m good enough to take the Check Ride with an independent DPE(Designated Pilot Examiner). Which is a good thing, as it costs around $350 (not counting the plane rental)! Having to do it twice would suck!

After that, I need to do one more (hopefully only one more) flight with my instructor to get reach the ‘simulated instrument’ time requirement. This is where you wear blinders to simulate flying through clouds and not being able to see anything but your instruments. We may do this in the simulator, but we’re not sure about that yet.

I’m excited to get this done, it’s been a really long time.. My first flight lesson took place at Boulder Municipal back in 1996, almost 10 years ago!

While I won’t own a plane the moment I get my license, I am well on my way to getting started on building one of those suckers. I suppose I can live with renting for now, as I still have my Instrument Rating to do anyways.. yay, only another 35 hours of lessons! (I guess that’s not very much compared to the 72 hours it’s taken me to get this far).

To infinity and beyond!

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