First flying Solo - your instructor will not let you fly alone untill you are absolutely ready.
Second - learning to fly in total is challenging for many people and one of the following will be a challenge to most. Aviate - Flying the plane safely and within the rules. Navigate - using your common sense and the instruments to know where you are at all times and how far it is to your next check point. The amusing part is that the new handheld GPS units and installed GPS inside aircraft make this stone simple, but you need to know backup and primary instruments like VOR instruments in case the GPS unit fails. Communicate - how to talk on the radio and to whom. This is one of your basic tools for safety..if lost or uncertain about weather, airport conditions.
At first each task will be a bit hard, sometimes scary, and not at all comfortable. You will quickly master a series of tasks and stay ahead of the airplane and aware of your surroundings so you do not stray into closed airspace or strike another object. You will earn how to take off , fly a pattern, exit a pattern and apprach and re-enter the pattern and land safely. You will soon be competent and safe. However, if you do not like or feel comfortable with your instructor, get rid of him. For example - we once had a high wind front come through the airport, my instructor insisted I fly the plane in a cross wind onj landing that approached the maximum the plane is rated to handle. I was very green, it was uneccesary to push me that hard, I fired him and found an instructor who taught just a little quicker than I could learn, gentle pushing and it worked. I like instructors who were already flying big planes for the airlines, a little more money but all were very good. In fact, one guided me through a complete electriucal system failure without a hitch, not an emergency but not something you ignore.
Flying is great, it is not easy in total but each little step is easy in the end, O.K.l except for maybe landings and navigation....these can stretch some folks.
Do it and you will like it..
I've only had my license for 3 years but I would recommend it. When I was taking lessons I did not solo until I had 80 hours of instruction. You instructor will tell you can solo when you fell comfortable enough to do so.
Piloting an aircraft is serious stuff but you and your instructor will know ground school and pilot lessions I flew solo after only 5 hours of instructor flying lessions back in the seventies. Of course instrument rating takes much longer to master. Clear weather flying is addicting you will never want to drive in traffic again.
I don't know what all this talk is about soloing after 40 or 80 (or 50!!) hours. You should be ready to solo in maybe 10 hrs, I know I did, your first take off and landings, then you have to fly either solo or with an instructor for lessons, should have your Private certificate in maybe 50-70 hours, then you can take passengers up. You can also take passengers up with an instructor along before you even get a license.
earning your private pilots license was easy for me. it is safe to fy solo after 50 hours, if you are confident about it. good luck.
ONLY IF YIU HAVE A DEATH WISH AND AHUGE INSURANCE POLICY THAT COVERS FLYING
Learning to fly is relatively easy. However, there are MANY small components that you have to do while flying and learning all of them (and doing them all safely) takes time and can be overwhelming at times.
Flying is very simple .............................its the takeoffs and landings that hurt.
My brother had his license before he had his drivers license at 16. Then went on to fly in the AF and AA. They will not let you fly until you are able!
This blog will walk you through everything in becoming a private pilot: http://360.yahoo.com/private_jet_charter Good luck with the flying. It's worth the effort.
I soloed at about 40 hours, it may have been a little sooner. I felt that I was ready before my instructor did, but I had a great instructor. You won't be allowed to solo until you are ready. It is not difficult, but it is costly. I paid about $7000--I loved it.
The physical act of flying is by far the easiest part to learn.It is the good judgment, applied skill, dedication, maturity and calmness in adversity which are the things which designate a good, safe pilot from an unsafe or mediocre one. The average pilot takes about 60 hours to get their private pilot license, and once they do, the true learning about how to fly is just beginning. Once the FAA examiner signs you off as a pilot, that is when you become truly responsible for yourself and everyone and everything that you can land on or crash into. I've met pilots that can yank, bank and turn as well as Chuck Yeager used to, but they didn't have a lick of common sense and judgment, and I refused to fly with them. Aside from all the alleged 'glory and honor' that pilots have, its what between the person's ears which makes them a good pilot, whether it be a Cessna 150 or F-22 raptor - good sense is something that all old pilots posses(and if you are paying for your own lessons, a whole lot of expendable income)
I am 17 and love flying with all my heart! Learning to fly takes alot of disipline, but is it hard no! If you really truely love it you will find that you don't even realize how much you sacrifice to learn to fly, but after you are finished with your license you realize that it was totally worth every hour and every penny...Good Luck! Hope that you develope the same passion for flight that so many others of us have!
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