subject: Learning To Fly [print this page] Is learning to fly one of your most elusive dreams? You'll be surprised to find out that aviation is not actually elusive. It's for everyone to learn and participate in. You may think that, in order to be a pilot, you have to pursue a career or employment at an airline or a private aviation service. While that is partly true, you can actually be a pilot without being bound to these jobs. Yes, you can still be a pilot without working as a pilot. That's what happens when you train to become a private pilot.
A private pilot is someone that operates as his own pilot. You can fly anytime you want, as often or as seldom as you want, unlike chartered or commercial pilots. All you need to do in order to fly is to file a flight plan and get everything ready. So, if you feel like flying and enjoying the skies tomorrow, you just need to plan your flight and get on your plane. So who said that being a pilot comes with that big a responsibility as piloting an airliner or a privately chartered aircraft?
You'll Have Fun Learning to Fly
Learning to fly as a private pilot is not that difficult as well. In fact, it's fun! When you start taking lessons, you will always have an instructor with you in the other seat making sure that things are alright and to take over when things start becoming wrong. The instructor is there to make sure that you learn things right, and in a manner which you will be comfortable with. There's no need to feel undue pressure, except perhaps when the day of your private pilot checkride draws near.
You Can Make Your Dreams Come True
Most of all, training to become a private pilot is your way of making your dreams come true. That should suffice for a reason to take flight lessons. Doesn't it feel good to see your dreams and ambitions finally come to fruition? It's one thing to dream, after all, and it's another to get up and start taking the steps necessary to fulfill that dream. If you have long dreamt of becoming a pilot, then taking flight lessons are the only way that you can work towards realizing that aspiration.
Taking flight lessons is an investment, not just of money but also of time and effort. However, in return, you get to do what you always wanted to do: to fly and conquer the skies as a pilot.
