18 Months Later...

It's now October 21st, 2009, 18 months since the last time I posted on this blog and so much has happened. First off, I am now a pilot! It took me a little over a year and I successfully passed my FAA checkride on June 22nd, 2009. It was a great day to say the least, one that I will always remember.

There are several reasons I decided to come back to this blog and I really hope that I will start using this to share my thought. The first and most important is that since getting my ticket I have not been flying much (sigh...). For some reason it's so much harder than I ever expected to motivate myself to get up there. Then there is the financial aspects of flying. Spending $100+ dollars per hour for sight seeing and taking friends up is hard to swallow at the moment, given the current financial climate. Another item spinning around in my head is the rent vs. buy concept. I pay $116.00 per hour for a ragged out Cessna 172P and I feel like I am throwing the money away. But, that's a whole seperate topic for another time...

As I progress through this process I want to use this blog as a means for student pilots, newly minted pilots and any other pilot to understand what is going on in my head. I hope to use this as a spring board to other social media channels so I don't feel like I am the only person in the world going through this process.

CessnaSteve