Are you one of those people that always ask for a window seat? Perhaps always watching the airplanes that fly overhead? As I was traveling from San Diego to Nashville on a Southwest flight I wondered how many people on my flight ever thought about being a pilot.
Maybe its time to get a new view from the pilots seat of a small airplane! Flying a small plane is not as hard or costly as you might think, and its a sure fire way to spice up your life and expand your mental thinking abilities.
Learning to fly will cost you from $5,000 to $9,000 depending on where and what type of plane you decide to fly. Many people grab one of those interest free credit card offers for 6 months to a year and charge the lessons. Others choose the pay as you fly concept. Either way 25-30 lessons later you will be sitting up front, taking your friends and family flying and seeing the world from a new perspective.
Flying lessons can be taken a few times a week or a few times per month, much like any private one on one training you set the schedule. There are two types of study in learning how to fly, ground study and in the airplane study. As a rule of thumb most of the time you...