Help Need some advice

[moxiepilot]

anybody got details on this TSA requirement, I haven't delt with it yet.

I suppose this is a truncated version of midlife's response....

http://www.aopa.org/tsa_rule

It even has a 1 page printable version of domestic & international student checklist for the TSA stuff

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

does the 0.7 really make a difference when you really don't know what is going on yet?

I don't think so.

Sure it does. When I started flying, I was excited about and wanted to record every second I was in the cockpit of an airplane.

 

[husky16]

Sure it does. When I started flying, I was excited about and wanted to record every second I was in the cockpit of an airplane.

I agree that my discovery flight definitely confirmed my love of flying and really got me excited to learn more.

However, you said you wanted to record...(past tense)? So what you are saying is that the flight really doesn't matter now. Because I take it you don't record every second in an airplane now.

The importance of a discovery flight is priceless and the .7 logged is of mimimal importance

 

[jrh]

The importance of a discovery flight is priceless and the .7 logged is of mimimal importance

No, logging it is still important. It's more symbolic than anything else.

Sure, there are very few people who are ready for their checkride with 40.1 hours and say, "Whew! Good thing I was able to log that intro flight!"

But there are lots of people that look back on their first logbook, see their first instructor's signature, see some little remark like "Intro flight" in the comment field, etc. and remember that special flight. You can think back to what it felt like to steer with your feet, how you couldn't believe it when the instructor let you take off on your own, etc. For me, my intro flight was the first time I'd sat up front in a small plane. Logging it is just a nice symbol of making your first "official" flight.

Now my logbook is just a legal record of my flight experience. But for my first 250 hours or so it was practically a journal of the good times I had while learning.

 

[Lefty]

I completely agree....i count every single tenth of the hour...it seems very important to me especially now since i only have 90 hours and i haven't flown since may 28th of 04...... ...it seems very special to me to sit down drink a beer and flip through my logbook...its kind of sad really....count those hours...!

 

[Philip]

Sure it does. When I started flying, I was excited about and wanted to record every second I was in the cockpit of an airplane.

really? I thought it was kind of hokey that I got to log taxi time as "flight time"