Ben Peters
Well-Known Member
Long time lurker, first time poster! Been super interested in aviation since I was a kid, got about 25 hours when I was in high school, ran out of money, went to college and got an engineering degree. I've been working in software since then and never pursued aviation because of money and "it didn't make sense".
Anyway, a few months ago (10 years later) I decided to get back into it anyway, and I've had an absolute blast. After 3 reschedules over 1.5 months due to weather and a 2 day checkride (first day was oral + a short flight where I opted to discontinue after weather started moving in) I finally became a pilot and got my PPL last week!
I'm still not sure exactly where I want to take aviation - I'm 30 years old, and software pays well with good QOL - but I can't get enough of flying at the moment and I'm really glad I took the plunge. I'm looking forward to getting more experience and starting to work on my instrument (and probably commercial) in the coming months.
Hopefully I'll get to meet some of the people on here in the future - living in Jackson, WY at the moment and flying out of KDIJ.
Anyway, a few months ago (10 years later) I decided to get back into it anyway, and I've had an absolute blast. After 3 reschedules over 1.5 months due to weather and a 2 day checkride (first day was oral + a short flight where I opted to discontinue after weather started moving in) I finally became a pilot and got my PPL last week!
I'm still not sure exactly where I want to take aviation - I'm 30 years old, and software pays well with good QOL - but I can't get enough of flying at the moment and I'm really glad I took the plunge. I'm looking forward to getting more experience and starting to work on my instrument (and probably commercial) in the coming months.
Hopefully I'll get to meet some of the people on here in the future - living in Jackson, WY at the moment and flying out of KDIJ.
