I'm writing to saying goodbye...

[Maximilian_Jenius]

You bailing on JC too?

Still here, though my engagement has honestly dropped a bit. Been a bit more of a lurker. But, nah... just aviation, at least as a career anyway. We'll see if I ever fly again, as my much needed aviation sabbatical continues. But IR training and my AMEL, we're the best parts of my primary training (to me). I absolutely hated Commercial, it was a HUGE . At some point, when I can afford it. I'd love to get more hours in a multi, just for the fun of it and eventually rent one solo. I love seeing all the Seminoles, from AeroGuard at KDVT fly over my house in the pattern. I absolutely love multi-engine GA planes. I think insurance mandates at least fifty hours PIC, to be able to rent a multi solo. I have one hour of PIC in a Seneca. Giggle. Gonna be a while at $500 an hour, and $75 an hour for a MEI in the right seat.

 

[///AMG]

Even if you have decided this isn't a career path for you, I'd certainly encourage you to keep flying. I imagine you have the means to, and it sounds like the desire as well, maybe save doing a bunch of chandelles, or whatever the commercial involves these days. GA flying is a perfectly sufficient outlet for a lot of my friends who never wanted to do this professionally if it didn't involve afterburners. Not being at a 121 doesn't make you any less of a pilot. I imagine that it is a lot more fun and "free" in a lot of ways.

 

[ppragman]

Life is short dude. Do the things you want to do, not the things you think you want to do. Congratulations! We need more people doing the work you're going to be doing far more than we need more pilots. o7

 

[ozziecat35]

Knowing you, you gave it everything bro, and that’s something to be proud of. Like you said timing’s a bitch and in the end the luck wasn’t on your side, but not for lack of effort. Good on you for making a decision you have peace in. Next time I’m in town first ones on me.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Knowing you, you gave it everything bro, and that’s something to be proud of. Like you said timing’s a bitch and in the end the luck wasn’t on your side, but not for lack of effort. Good on you for making a decision you have peace in. Next time I’m in town first ones on me.

Thanks bro, it means a lot. If I was thirty-five to forty years old, or better eighteen to twenty-five, I'd be all over it. This career is meant to be started when you're younger. It's harder, but not impossible when you're a career changer. Life sucks and it isn't always fair. But that's life.