Got My Ticket today!!!!

After an additional 5.5 hours practicing forward slips to a landing and soft
field landings, I got my ticket today. I will admit it is exciting to
finally get your ticket checking to see if it's truly mine, yep, has my
name on it.

Now that the "pressure" is off, I plan to just fly and enjoy the scenery
while continuing to learn as much as I can concerning aviation.

Total hours - 78.4
Total time - First flight 5/1306....PPL ASEL Flight 5/12/06. (Should have
waited 1 more day to make it an even year )
Total cost - $4137.00 - this includes everything - instructor, fuel, books,
sectionals, etc.

My plan is to forge on and get Instrument Rated.

Thanks to all those who gave me moral support when I failed the first time.
--
CareBear

Congratulations!

Total time - First flight 5/1306....PPL ASEL Flight 5/12/06. (Should have
waited 1 more day to make it an even year )

It was exactly one year. Had you waited a day, it would have been a
year and a day.

Jose
--
Quantum Mechanics is like this: God =does= play dice with the universe,
except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no universe.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Good job CB, and the best of luck with the IR.
Dudley Henriques


"CareBear" wrote in message
...
After an additional 5.5 hours practicing forward slips to a landing and
soft field landings, I got my ticket today. I will admit it is exciting
to finally get your ticket checking to see if it's truly mine, yep, has
my name on it.

Now that the "pressure" is off, I plan to just fly and enjoy the scenery
while continuing to learn as much as I can concerning aviation.

Total hours - 78.4
Total time - First flight 5/1306....PPL ASEL Flight 5/12/06. (Should have
waited 1 more day to make it an even year )
Total cost - $4137.00 - this includes everything - instructor, fuel,
books, sectionals, etc.

My plan is to forge on and get Instrument Rated.

Thanks to all those who gave me moral support when I failed the first
time.
--
CareBear

Jose you are correct. I was looking at the 2 dates.

Thanks,

--
CareBear
"Jose" wrote in message
. ..
Congratulations!

Total time - First flight 5/1306....PPL ASEL Flight 5/12/06. (Should
have waited 1 more day to make it an even year )

It was exactly one year. Had you waited a day, it would have been a year
and a day.

Jose
--
Quantum Mechanics is like this: God =does= play dice with the universe,
except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no
universe.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

On 05/12/07 12:07, CareBear wrote:
After an additional 5.5 hours practicing forward slips to a landing and soft
field landings, I got my ticket today. I will admit it is exciting to
finally get your ticket checking to see if it's truly mine, yep, has my
name on it.

Congratulations, CB!


Now that the "pressure" is off, I plan to just fly and enjoy the scenery
while continuing to learn as much as I can concerning aviation.

That's a really good plan. Get out there and fly, as often as you can.


Total hours - 78.4
Total time - First flight 5/1306....PPL ASEL Flight 5/12/06. (Should have
waited 1 more day to make it an even year )
Total cost - $4137.00 - this includes everything - instructor, fuel, books,
sectionals, etc.

That's pretty cheap. I think I estimated that it ran me something like $7500
or so...


My plan is to forge on and get Instrument Rated.

Thanks to all those who gave me moral support when I failed the first time.

Well, you never really failed, did you? You just didn't pass until today ;-)

Best of luck on the IR. I had a lot of fun getting mine.


--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane, USUA Ultralight Pilot
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA

CareBear wrote:

My plan is to forge on and get Instrument Rated.

Good plan. There is never a better time to start on that then now
because you are at the peak of your training and confidence level.

Thanks to all those who gave me moral support when I failed the first time.

Oh and Congratulations! You have just accomplished what a very
small percentage of people in the world have done. Do some flying
now to enjoy your success... but try and make them cross countries
because you need 50 hours for the Instrument rating!

All the best and keep the greasy side down.

On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:07:47 -0500, "CareBear"
wrote:

After an additional 5.5 hours practicing forward slips to a landing and soft
field landings, I got my ticket today.

Excellent!

Enjoy the freedom!

"CareBear" wrote in message
...
After an additional 5.5 hours practicing forward slips to a landing and soft
field landings, I got my ticket today.

Way to go! Now we get to teach you the secret "licensed pilot" handshake.

Welcome to the club.

Vaughn

"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
...

"CareBear" wrote in message
...
After an additional 5.5 hours practicing forward slips to a landing and
soft field landings, I got my ticket today.

Way to go! Now we get to teach you the secret "licensed pilot"
handshake.

Welcome to the club.

Vaughn


Yeah
What Vaughn said.
Got mine 7/9/67.
What handshake?
;*)

On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:07:47 -0500, CareBear wrote:

Whoa!... Way to go! Congratulations


Total hours - 78.4
Total cost - $4137.00 - this includes everything - instructor, fuel, books,

I've got to assume you own the aircraft?


--
Dallas