As of today, I’ve logged 18.9 hours and I’m really starting to feel some progress! I had a nine day hiatus when my good friend and business partner Tyler Tate was in town, then I left for a weekend reuniting with friends in Indianapolis for a great wedding. (more…)

In my last post, I had accumulated 9.3 hours — I’m only up to 12.2 hours right now, thanks to some ugly weather, plane maintenance and my CFI’s sinus infection. Today I’ll cover the planes I’m flying, my first away-from-home trip and a lesson with a fill-in instructor. (more…)

What follows is my first actual post on my flight lessons — I wrote an introduction and some background a few weeks ago. Much of this I’m writing simply for my own benefit, to help solidify my training. There’s more detail than you’ll probably find interesting — I’m also aiming to keep it accessible to anybody, so I may oversimplify some parts.

Here’s where I’m at: I’ve had eight lessons and logged a total of 9.3 hours. I try to fly twice a week (which gets tough with the weather), and a typical lesson is 2 hours at the airport — about an hour of which is actually in the sky. (more…)

This post has been procrastinated for several weeks, and so it is guaranteed to be overlong — just a warning. To me, even the very idea of what I’m writing is staggering: I’m learning to fly! Let me provide a spoiler and say that I’ve currently logged 5.7 hours of lessons, but I’m going to start from the beginning, and will then try to stay up-to-date.

I’ve had an obsession with flight for as long as I can remember — as a kid, I wore out the tape in the space camp promotional VHS tape, flew flight simulators on every computer I owned, and loved trips to the Air and Space Museum. I explored flight training when I was nearing graduation from high school, but I ended up taking a different direction. (more…)