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Jago668 wrote:I'd certainly recommend everyone get personal training on the basics. Can really make a difference. It improved my shooting a good bit and I wasn't exactly horrible. Even just an hours worth. If you teach yourself you don't know what bad habits you are forming. Having someone able to watch you and correct those, I think is well worth the money.

Absolutely! There are a number of very good instructors around, giving weekend schools in basic techniques. If you can avoid the pure Rambo types, it can be very worthwhile.

Refreshers aren't a waste of time or money either.

cb1000rider wrote:

JALLEN wrote:My flying instructor, whose flying license was signed by Orville Wright,

Really? I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but amazing he still had a medical.

It was a long time ago, Bill was probably in his 70's then, and instructors don't need a medical to instruct. They just can't fly on their own.

He was licensed in ~1930, Army Air Corp during WWII, and was a retired insurance salesman. He charged $10 a lesson, whether you rode around all afternoon on a cross country, or he met you at the airport and told you to do ten touch and goes solo. He didn't need the money. He just loved flying around in airplanes, especially when somebody else was paying for the gas.

Rules for successful flying:

1. Never land before you get to the airport.
2. Go potty every chance you get.
3. Never put yourself in a situation where you need more luck to get out of it than you can reasonably count on.

I logged about 100,000 minutes before I had to give it up. In those ~100,000 minutes, there were only 8-10 of them where I thought I was going to die, which I consider pretty good.

My flying instructor, whose flying license was signed by Orville Wright, would frequently admonish me "don't do nothing stupid!" Or was it "don't do nothing, stupid!"

It was hard to know which.