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FAR RIGHT: KOLLIN STAGNITO
Take your first overnight trip
This one is a huge milestone. Your first overnight
trip! Multi-day journeys will require more preflight
planning and you'll have to keep a closer eye on the
weather, but the payoff will be high-you'll be using
GA in a fun, new, rewarding way, and you may never
want to take a road trip again.
Triple Tree Aerodrome, South Carolina
Leave the airport with your next
flight scheduled
If you had a good CFI (or if you are a good CFI),
you already know this-leaving with your next
flight scheduled and something to look forward to
increases the chances that you'll fly sooner rather
than later. You know how your dentist doesn't let
you leave until you schedule your next cleaning?
This is like that, but fun.
Tips from an AOPA CFI
* Keep flying (obviously).
* Earn other certificates/ratings.
* Get checked out in different aircraft.
* Join a flying club, the Civil Air Patrol, or
other pilot group.
* Team up with a fellow pilot to establish
and work on proficiency goals and hold
each other accountable-make it fun,
competitive, and challenging.
* Get involved in the GA community-attend
events, seminars, talk to other pilots, learn,
and more.
* Join a charitable flying organization (start in
a nonpilot role while building hours toward
mission pilot qualifications).
* Consume AOPA/AOPA Air Safety Institute
safety and training content.
* Buy a good flight sim and connect with
ATC with PilotEdge or Vatsim for added
realism (especially helpful during IFR
training and proficiency).
-Paul Deres, vice president,
AOPA Air Safety Institute
Fly with a CFI once a year (at least)
CFIs are a vastly underutilized resource. And flying
with a CFI doesn't mean you're a bad, rusty, or
incompetent pilot-it means you want to continue
learning. Grow your skills by flying with a CFI
on a gusty crosswind day, increase your comfort
with new-to-you airspace, or get checked out in a
different aircraft type.
If you start to feel rusty, you can tell your CFI
and plan some refresher flights. And if you ever
find yourself in a prolonged lapse in flying, don't
worry-a CFI will be happy to get you back up to
standards and flying again.
Fly solo
When you're alone in the air, just you and the
airplane, you're hyper aware of your aviating
abilities, the high stakes of flying, and the privilege
of flight. The best pilots find time to fly solo and
work on improving their stick and rudder and
decision-making skills-put yourself in that camp
and fly solo as well. If you ever get to a point where
you would fly with a passenger but not fly solo (a
misguided reality that's more common than you
might think), you need to get back in the air with a
CFI and build some confidence.
You worked hard to earn the freedom to fly so
don't let it go to waste. Go fly! FT
alicia.herron@aopa.org
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