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Old 11-16-2009 | 01:40 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by flaps 9
So true!!!

When anyone asks for my advice the subject I tell them the same thing a UAL pilot told me years ago. Find the cheapest, slowest airplane around. You're trying to build time. Whether it's a new Piper with GPS, glass, and autopilot or a 1965 C-150 you're still logging single engine piston time.

I'm not sure what flight training costs are these days but no way should anyone be paying anything close to 150K for training.
Yep. Anything I spent on learning flying was made back and then some by cleaning, waxing, fixing and selling the old slow airplanes I trained in.

Spending $150,000 and chasing girls around the beach would have been fun, but isn't necessary.
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