Let me tell you what I found to be a waste of time and what turns out to be helpful as I've started my research on-line. Tonight I'll review what I received and learned from pilotjourney.com.
The first response I received from pilotjourney.com contained links to on-line seminars, an on-line handbook, pilot forums hosted by piotjourney, a list of career pilot schools and a link to where you can purchase their "Discovery Flight", which is an introductory lesson.
The first link to click on was to an on-line seminar titled Learn to Fly. It's a bit of a cheesy slide show offering encouragement and practical tips as you go forth. Encouragement such as taking lessons often and stick with it, encouragement such as how to save money during training by taking lessons often, using modern planes at schools with more than one or two airplanes. Practical tips such as using and following syllabus, study 2 hours for every 1 hour lesson, get your medical certificate prior to your first lesson and don't worry about how many hours it will take, rather work towards passing the Practical Standards Test. They also suggested taking the written exam as early as possible. All of the information from this seminar is decent if not presented in a hokey way.
I was surprised as they suggested that financing your training was practical and cost savings. Can someone tell me how paying to use money ever "saves" you money? They answer this question by suggesting that financing your training keeps you on track and saves you in the long run. I agree with that but if paying the money back would be difficult, as in my case, it doesn't make sense. Saving money is a better bet as I have started to do, but it's going to take some time to save that much.
All in all this on-line seminar was helpful as it was free, but I wouldn't recommend it as a must see.
Next time I'll review pilotjourney.com's next on-line seminar titled "Discovery Flight".
Matt,
ReplyDeleteTo eliminate motion sickness, chug a fifth of Jack Daniels one hour before each training flight. You will pass out on the tarmac while walking to the plane, thereby negating any chance of flying that day....therefore no air sickness!
Mike T.
Matt,
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure my comments are being posted.
Anyway, good on you, for having a airsick free flight.
Mike T.