Pulki...it is in your Blood, you will always urn for the High and Mighty place in the sky!!

Fact is in General Aviation, however, there are no copilots, no dispatchers, rarely autopilots (on bush planes), no radar, and sometimes controllers that steer you wrong!! You are all on your own-100% to make all the decisions, know where you are or aren't, and deal with rapidly changing weather that you are often in or trying to stay under, in the mountains!!

It is challenging and a totally different kind of flying...and that's why we like it... but you have to be VERY CAUTIOUS you don't get in over your head....it happens very quickly. Last weekend there were Super Cubs and Mauls headed for annual Mountain Rendezvous....many stuck both east and west by funky weather....that's part of the game, and always remember when you are NOT on the Company Schedule, you don't have to get there when you said or thought you would, nor get home either. At least it will only be your wife mad when you don't show up...later than Scheduled!!

Cheers,

Started flying in 1970. Owned an American Yankee 5707L, and then a Mooney Executive 21. Flew some WWI aircraft with the Confederate Air Force (since renamed).

Got my PP in 1968, then quit for lack of funds even though a Cherokee 140 cost only $10.80/hr. wet at the time.

Started flying again last Oct. and got my multi engine rating about a month ago. Flying a Piper Geronimo, P68 Partenavia, and a C152 now, and loving every minute.

I'm working from memory so I might be off a year or so on dates....

Earned my private license while attending college in Alaska in 1977 and a float plane license in 1978. Went on to get instrument rated in 1979 at a California two week school during the summer. After graduating from college in '80, work and marriage consumed all my time. I quit flying except on occasion while hunting with my father in AK who built and modified airplanes.

I am thinking about starting again as there is a grass strip about a mile from my home.