Hi everyone
I will be starting ground school on Sept. 19 and I was wondering whether I should start my flight training now or wait until the spring due to the fact that the weather becomes quite bad in winter. Now should I start now and get about 10 hours done before the weather changes or should I wait for spring? Thanks for your input
YOu should start now and that way you will get the weather experience for every season. It also depends if you want to fly commercially or just be a fair weather pilot....
Good luck....
Wow Thanks for the quick reply Yeah thats a good point I never thought of that. The only problem that I was thinking of was that I would get quite rusty and forget alot of things when I would be grounded for a long period of time.Thanks again
More thoughts and suggestions welcomed
Edelweiss Air
I agree winter can be bad, but it can also be very good, nice calm winds, crisp air, good A/C performance. I really enjoy flying in the winter time.
I dont think there is any reason to stop flying because of the winter months. even if you only log a few hours every 2 weeks or so during the winter, those few hours will be nice.
Fly during groundschool...things will make more sense......i did my ground school 4 years ago and only now am I really flying.. I did a bit here and there and alot when I had my co-op at the airport but I think it would have been better to learn in the air at the same time as you learn on the ground.
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Winter is an awesome time to fly. You'll probably have an easier time booking a/c because so many people pansy out of the cold. Get a good pair of boots and get flyin'!
And thanks to global warming you probably won't see snow(except 1 or 2 dumps in Dec) until January.
How often will you be flying anyways?
What are you trying to achieve??? CPL-multi-ifr?
Most flight "colleges" start in Sept, so obviously, they think it's the "best" time to start....
Night comes early, so you'll be able to get the Night Flying done...
Flying during any season has it's "ups and downs" your plane is sluggish in the summer, better in the winter, snow on the ground in the winter, rain in the spring...
And if you're gonna do the ground school now, why wait 3-6 months to start flying??
Thanks for your input Rather and YYZ.
I just plan on obtaining my PPL . So I won't be doing any night flying just yet. Anyways I am going to book my first lesson for next week seeing as everyone recomends I start now
Edelweiss air
I'm also starting my PPL in the next couple of weeks and was wondering the same thing. These guys are right though.... there are a good number of crisp clear days in the fall/winter months where lessons would be great.
I just hope that these Cessnas and Pipers have good heaters..
Speaking of that... I am trying to figure out what I want to train in. I've flown a Piper Archer before and loved it, but never done the C150/172 thing. My feeling is that low wing are a little better for being more forgiving during landings and low speed work. What do you guys think? Would you say that the low wing Piper would be a better go??
If you're just getting a private licence to fly around occasionally on, get it on the aircraft that you enjoy flying most. There's a lot of room for personal opinion there but if you're thinking about purchasing talk to someone like Cat, he seems to know performance numbers for every plane that's left the pavement. One thing to think about is you'll be able to go anywhere in the world and rent a C172 but a Piper archer is probably a little more difficult to find. They're both easy to fly.
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