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Post by Jupiter on Jun 6, 2015 12:56:19 GMT
 It's been a while since I've been to an airport just to watch airplanes take off and land, as I did for so many previous years while growing up. I don't think I've been to an airport, just to observe planes taking off and landing, in at least 8 years. It's just not the same anymore, especially after 9/11. Before 9/11 you could practically stand next to runway and take pictures, sit in car, and just recreationally observe planes take off and land. Now days, with people being so paranoid, if you try that you might be looked at suspiciously. Now days, and rightfully so, everything is fenced off, blocked off, views blocked, roads closed, ect. The days of innocence are gone surrounding the recreational plane viewing types. Now if you sit or wonder around airport for to long, taking pictures or looking up at sky, they're liable to think you're plotting something. |
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Post by Jupiter on Jun 6, 2015 13:22:03 GMT
Use to always dream of obtaining private pilot licenseFor so many years I wanted to get into the sky and fly, but interest has really waned over last decade or so. Every day living, trying to survive day to day, age, time, reality, has just caught up with me I suppose. With other bills I can't really justify setting aside $10-$15,000 to obtain a private pilots license anymore.  But for years it's all I use to dream about, airplanes were the first, and kind of last magical frontier for me. It seems once I lost immediate interests in aviation, airplanes, everything else in life kind of went grey also. I often try to convince self to go to air port, hear the sound of props swirling in order to recessite an interest. Flight lessons are very demanding, very. On top of the stress of the lessons themselves is the fiscal part, wondering how you're going to pay for next lesson, and unless one has total passion for it, a kind of blind passion, logic and reason usually kick in after a while as you realize you just can't afford nor justify lessons anymore. Some stretch their lessons out over months, even years, but I don't like doing it that way, as you're always going back to refresh skills. But it can be done that way, a lesson here, a lesson there. The only way my enthusiasm could come back for aviation lessons is if I had all the money up front to take lessons daily or weekly. If the strain of 'how to pay' for lessons just wasn't there. Cause with private pilot lessons, most obtain it just for fun, and never go on to become professional pilot, which would require another $100,000 dollars in training. So justifying spending $10,000 on a license that will only be used for fun, can be difficult as you age and are swamped with other responsibilities. But again, sometimes all it takes is that one trip to airport, a trial ride inside airplane, to reinvigorate the passion.
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