FL to NJ in a 172

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

True, but the other option was to beat my meat all weekend (still a good time). And we got to visit Kitty Hawk, which is a pilgrimage I think any aviator would jump on.

You don't get the point. Sigh.

 

[Trr56]

Spent 4 years on the Kitty Hawk, not that great (unless you mean the non-floating airport one)

Lol hey that would amazing too to land on in a Cessna!
I mean First Flight...Wright Brothers Memorial

 

[Trr56]

You don't get the point. Sigh.

Trust me I hear you. My main instructor told me all the time you won't even want to work for free and I only believed him once I started instructing and then getting paid good money to fly survey solo without a student trying to kill me. But at the end of the day instead of sitting at home, I got to visit a few places I have always wanted and I got to see a fellow aviator become more confident flying in IMC. That's all the justification I need.

 

[bri-guy]

Trust me I hear you. My main instructor told me all the time you won't even want to work for free and I only believed him once I started instructing and then getting paid good money to fly survey solo without a student trying to kill me. But at the end of the day instead of sitting at home, I got to visit a few places I have always wanted and I got to see a fellow aviator become more confident flying in IMC. That's all the justification I need.

At the end of the day it was just 2 pilots doing what they love to do, flying. No rush, no one telling us what to do, and stopping at some of the coolest airports along the east coast. Best trip of my life, thanks Trr56.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

No, at the end of the day it was two pilots working for free. Eventually you'll understand why that's wrong. It took me a while to figure out that the PFT I did was wrong, but I eventually did. You will, too, and then you'll wish you had listened to your fellow pilots.

 

[tlewis95]

Yeah... "at the end of the day" you guys were just lowering the bar even further for real ferry pilots. Flying for free is one thing but paying for the gas to fly someone else's airplane between two points of THEIR choosing and even when they say is yet another notch closer to the bottom.

 

[greaper007]

Capitalism..... It's just the way it goes in this field, accept it or move on. Flying planes is fun, doing something like taxes sucks.

Personally, I moved on.

First post in over a year, don't know why I chose this thread.