The New Pilot PodBlog - Ep #02 - I Can't Afford This and What is My Mission Anyway?

In this episode I discuss how my experience after my first post-checkride flight caused me to reevaluate my mission, the type of flying that I would be doing. Also, because of the cost of this flight, I realized that I needed to figure out a way to cut costs so that I could afford to keep flying.

So after some soul searching, I came to realize that my mission would be VFR flights of short to medium range cross-countries by myself or with one other person. Now all I needed to do was to find a capable, inexepensive airplane, to support this.

This lead me to check out Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). After realizing that they were capable crosscountry aircraft and inexpensive to rent (burning 5 gph helps), I decided to get checked out in one. I am currently flying the Tecnam P92 Eaglet.

I also discuss that my friend Joe Rydzewski, looking to reign in the costs of trainging, has decided to finish up his Private Pilot license in the Eaglet.


Thanks for listening.

Blues skies everyone!

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The intro and closing song is John Mellencamp's My Aeroplane.

Direct access to the mp3 is here.