by Capt.Propwash » Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:49 pm
being that you are only 14.5, my suggestion would follow BFMF.... go to a local GA airport and just have a sit-down with an instructor. Let him know what you want, "to take lessons, but you are underage", and let him know that you do have FS9 or X, and what do you really need to concentrate on so that you can know it BEFORE you pay out the big dollars.
I did just that about 2 years ago; granted I am 29, but I told the instructor that I was very interested in trying to get a personal pilots license for a Cessna 150, 172, or 182... something like that. But that I did not have much in the way of funding. I do have Flight Sim 2004, as well as X, and wanted to know if that would help me in the basics of ground school and fundementals of flight. He said it would give me a working knowledge, but as for the actuall feel.... NO. but it would help some.
get some charts anyway you can. Local GA or major airport. Talk to the pilots, they usually just throw away old Jeppesen charts, maybe you can give em $5 or something for their old ones.
as for VOR/NDB /(DME) flights... start out in the day to get the feel, then move to night, then DAY stormy weather, then NIGHT STORMY. by the time you get to NIGHT STORMY, you'll pretty much know what to do and when to do it, and you will be ready.
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