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Jakor

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  1. Jason, Lots of good feedback in this thread. Like you I have been really keen to get flying but have been concerned about how my weight might impact training and aircraft I might want to fly in. I had been talking about starting training for ages but my kids bit the bullet and bought me a TIF and 2 lessons for my 60th. I contacted the flight school concerned and discovered that the training would be in a Skyfox Gazelle and that being over 100kg's could be a problem - It was just the motivation I needed. I am now down to the 100kg (from 112) and am using the future training opportunity as real motivation to peel off more weight - dont plan on booking the TIF until I'm in the low 90's and expect this to be late November at this rate. I know our long term wellbeing ought to be enough motivation to drop some kilo's, but I have found that the real desire to be able to do something I really want to do has provided that extra incentive..... and to be honest, that incentive has meant that the weight loss task has been pretty easy so far. Good luck to you as you work through how to get airborne.
  2. Thank you all for your comments - your advice is all very sensible and will be taken on board. My main takeaway from the feedback is to make sure I put the horse before the cart in selecting training school and venue and to hasten slowly. As for Gnarly's suggestion - a property with it's own airstrip would undoubtedly be a step too far for the Minister for Finance & Recreation. Davidh10 - I have indeed been doing heaps of reading, including having been through the tutorials on this site multiple times. I will keep you posted as I move forward but am unlikely to do anything positive, other than continue to read and research, before mid year. Cheers, Jeff
  3. Hi everyone, I've been lurking around this site for a little while now so it's time to introduce myself and see if I can gain your insights into some of the queries I have before I plunge head first into recreational flying. I am aged in my late 50's (time flies!!) and have been retired for a couple of years. While I have always been intrigued about aviation, and have done a ridiculous amount of business travel in the big birds (most of the time having dozed off before the doors were closed), I have never taken the prospect of learning to fly too seriously....until now. Went on a small group flying holiday to the top end last year and had the chance to sit with the pilot (and steer a bit under instruction) and I was hooked. I'm about to go off to Africa for a similar trip shortly and am seriously considering taking the plunge with TIF and lessons when I get back. All that said, I do have some questions and would value input from those experienced in the world of recreational aviation. I live in the S/E suburbs of Melbourne and therefore have a few reasonably local flight schools & airfields handy - Tooraddin, Lilydale, Coldstream and Tyabb are the closest, but Barwon Heads is also a possibility as I have a holiday house down that way). The question obviously then is which one do I go to? Presumably the sensible answer would be to visit each, talk with the instructors and take it from there. However, my personality is such that when I take something on, I'm afraid I have to go whole hog. I can well see myself doing the training (full time), hopefully becoming fully licensed (RAA) and then wanting to buy an aircraft rather than rent (I have been watching the posts on the Morgan Sierra's with particular interest). Therefore, should my choice of training location be dictated to some extent by where I am likely to want to fly from into the future? If so, should I then consider the likelihood of being able to obtain hangarage for a future aircraft before I start my training? The next question in this series is then ... how difficult is it to obtain hangarage at the sorts of airfields i mentioned above? (I certainly wouldn't want to acquire an aircraft and then leave my investment unhangared)? Sorry this is so long winded but any advice would be much appreciated. In any event I hope to become a flying member of this fraternity shortly. Cheers, Jeff
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