Hi All,
I got my private ticket in 1978 and quickly followed it with Comm, Multi and Instrument. I have +1.5k hrs in all kinds of fun airplanes, mostly singles. I have time in ultra lights, gliders, experimental, open cockpit bi-planes, and a lot of time that I never logged.

I worked for Mooney Aircraft Company in Kerrville TX and flew the Porsche PFM for about a 100 hrs and got to work on the TLS with many hrs there too. Also the EFS...I'll let you Google that one. Fully aerobatic, 360 deg per second roll rate Mooney. Later Mooney used the data to create the Ovation.

My early hours were built flying thrashed airplanes out of South and Central America into the US for MAJOR maintenance. ( I emphasize major cause these things shouldn't have been in the air at all). I am a survivor of 1ea inflight fire to dead stick landing. 1 ea crash of a Cherokee six as a passenger, bad enuf that we broke it in two. (4 POB all walked away) 1ea engine failure at FL270 IFR on top. Back up vac pump and battery almost got me through an instrument approach into Chanute KS 30 minutes later broke out just as everything went dead. No battery left.

Any regrets? Yes, I never got to fly Bush in AK....There's still time tho