It's Time

So I'm ready to do it.

The money is almost in place.

The time is becoming more and more free.

Work is not the attention-deficit-disorder inducing circus that it once was.

The spouse is slowly overcoming the fear and loathing (or is it just shock and awe?)

The school has been shopped around. The instructors have been questioned. The planes have been sufficiently gawked at and caressed.

It's time to fly.


It's also time to give some voice to my background and experiences that have led me to this point and to my upcoming flight training. Undoubtedly, there are many blogs on this subject, and many real books as well. Indeed, I have already purchased many of them. But if you are a true student of flight, you have probably already discovered that there is no such thing as too much information. There are always new avenues to explore and new lessons to be learned (hopefully at someone else's expense).

It is always fun to observe the progress along one's own and others' paths. This is my purpose. With luck, this online journal will fill in the emotional and other non-flying gaps in the logbook to allow me to see that I am moving forward. I expect that there will be a few plateaus along the way, and I hope they do not become too discouraging. I have already done more reading than my friend who already has his certificate. I think it will work out all right.