The Stingy Pilot

One of the best ways you can cut down the cost of learning to fly is to have friends in high places. When I say "high places" of course, I mean thousands of feet AGL. If you happen to have a friend who is a CFI, airplane owner, a pilot, or even another student pilot, you could benefit from advice, resources, experiences, or even discounts on training time. Here's a list of a few ways having friends in aviation can help: There's a lot to learn As I started getting serious about my flight training, I was surprised at just how much there is to learn. I thought that since I'm an airplane nut and since I've been casually studying airplanes for years, the knowledge portion of flight training wouldn't be that difficult for me. I was very wrong. For me, I could pick up all of the stuff about aerodynamics and how actually flying an airplane works, but memorizing all of the various regulations and meteorology concepts has been pretty overwhelming. There are great re

I haven't posted in a while (over 5 years 😬) because it occurred to me that no one really wants to read a blog about flight training from someone who isn't actually flight training. Well, I'm still not technically actually flight training yet, but I'm finally getting really serious about it. I'm in the process of talking to CFIs and flight schools, I finished ground school, I have my costs all budgeted out, most of it saved up, and a plan for how the rest will be saved up. I'm actually ready to start training now, unfortunately my flight school isn't ready for me yet... Its probably still going to be a few months before my actual flight, but I'm going to try to crank out as many blog posts as I can between now and then, because once I actually start flying, things are going to get really  busy and I won't have as much time to write. Anyway, just wanted to drop a quick post just to let you (my imaginary readers) know that I'm getting started back