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@ 02:37 PM, July 25
Congratulation again Brady! Your certificate is well deserved! Great Blog! Thanks again to you, Jason, and EAA on a great Blog. Look forward to whatever projects or additional blogs you take on next. Please let EAA know that your fans want you to keep sharing your adventures, as you have many followers who do not want to have to go through "Brady Withdrawel"! Have fun at AirVenture!
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@ 02:49 PM, July 25
Congratulations, Brady. It's been fun, interesting and educational to watch you go through the learning process.
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@ 03:15 PM, July 25
WOW..That great Brady.... I bet you are relieved as well that the whole thing is finally over. Now you can go have FUN doing whatever you wish to do.
I am heading out tonight at 7pm for my first SOLO...Looking forward to it BIG TIME.
I posted a few more videos on my site from the last flights along with give you a shout out as well in my last entry. Thanks for keeping me motivated throughout my training!
www.mypilotchronicles.com
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@ 07:14 PM, July 25
Congratulations Brady. I have been watching your training from day one, and wish I was there with you doing the same thing. Keep us informed on your future efforts, I'm sure they will be as informative as the last one.
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@ 07:48 PM, July 25
Congratulations on passing your check ride. Thank you for documenting your journey. This is a great source for student pilots like me.
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@ 09:12 PM, July 25
Brady,
WAY TO GO MAN!!! Congratulations! I have watched your entire journey from start to finish. It has been very exciting to see because I started my private pilot training at the same time you started yours. I am getting close to my checkride so I hope to join you in the ranks of pilot-hood very soon! You should be proud! I read somewhere that you may be at Oshkosh. I will be there for the second weekend and I will look you up!
Thanks for all the time investment in your videos and blog.
Aaron Arvig
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@ 01:17 PM, July 26
Well I finllay did it Brady!! I soloed last night. Just put up new pictures and video on the site.. I know what its like now to experience such an incredible feeling. WOW.. words are hard to describe the feeling of FLIGHT!!! Have fun at Osh...See ya next year hopefully!!!
www.mypilotchronicles.com
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@ 07:55 PM, July 26
Hi Brady! Thanks for the invite but this coming thursday (July 30th) I am having surgery to remove a tumor on the left side of my neck. I won't be traveling for a few days. I am going to get a flight in before this. Who knows when my next one will. Don't take flying for granted. Again thank you for sharing with us. Hope to meet you again soon. God bless you, Paul
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@ 08:14 PM, July 26
Garrett: Congratulations! That is extremely exciting. It's an incredible feeling to look over, see an empty seat and know that YOU are flying! Congrats!
Paul: Thanks for all your encouraging notes on the blog throughout my training. Enjoy your flight this week and you will be in my thoughts and prayers on Thursday.
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@ 09:40 PM, July 26
Congratulations Brady! I have been watching your videos for the past several months and they have been a great inspiration. I just passed my Sport Pilot check ride today just before I leave for Oshkosh. What a great feeling. Maybe I'll see in there.
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@ 11:17 PM, July 26
Lane: Congrats to you as well! Please stop by the Learn to Fly Center for one of our forums, I'd love to shake your hand and congratulate you in person.
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@ 03:52 PM, July 27
Congratulations, Brady! I encourage you to take Jason up on his offer of spin training. They can be very disorienting so it's good to have experienced them under controlled conditions - just in case. Plus, they can be lots of fun (when done deliberately)!
If you're lucky, perhaps you can wrangle some time in a 2-seat Pitts. Such a fun, nimble little ship for basic aerobatics.
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@ 12:42 PM, July 28
Congratulations again Brady.
Have you considered putting together a DVD for sale with the footage you've already posted along with additional footage?
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@ 10:48 PM, July 28
WAY TO GO, I passed my check ride May 10, 2009. As I was filling out the application the section for total time I had to check the log book and found out that if I passed, which I did, on May 10, it would be 36 YEARS to the day when I started, May 10, 1973 to May 10, 2009, long time student.
ALL THE BEST
John
P.S. will the three talks you plan to do this week be be on this site?
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@ 08:36 PM, July 31
Great job on the whole project! As someone who hopes to go through the same process in the next year or so, I have found the videos extremely useful. None of the books that I have read on flight training demonstrate what the airplane is really trying to do like your videos. I even fly MS Flight Sim better after watching. Fly safe and remember to have fun out there!
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@ 09:07 PM, July 31
Congrats Brady! My brother and I are both new pilots and made our first trip to OSH this year flying (we always drove from TN since '86). There's always something new and fun to try out there!
By the way, you almost ran over us with your Gator near the Vintage Barn! I saw you and we both screamed "Brady!"...I think you need to get used to your new found fame! :)
Congrats man...hope the blog keeps going.
jf
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@ 11:18 PM, August 01
Good work i will follow your example and if you let me copy your idea of build a webpage and get sponsors to get the money for the lessons as i am low in found´s thanks and with a big desire to be a pilot
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@ 04:52 AM, August 03
It seems to me that you paid quite a bit for your training. I have seen programs that guarantee passage for only $3500. What was your instructor charges and then what was your airplane rental charge. Could you have gotten an EAA plane for free, since you work for them and are doing us members a great service?
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@ 06:46 PM, August 04
Congrats Brady! You did a great job with the blog and the videos. I had a chance to sit in a Flight Design MC during AirVenture, and I would love to take an LSA up as soon as my FBO can get one. They look like loads of fun to fly.
To other aspiring pilots out there, I chronicled my flight training experience in a blog of my own. Check it out at http://questforflight.blogspot.com
As I was told soon after my checkride, you get more than a license to fly, you get a license to learn. Tailwinds!
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@ 12:30 PM, August 05
Ron: We have considered putting together a DVD of my training videos for people who want to watch them all consecutively offline. I'll be sure to let you know when they will be available.
John: Congrats on getting your ticket! That's awesome it was on the same day you started years ago. I did record one of our forums at AirVenture and may put up a few clips here in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.
Dan: Thanks for your comments. My hope was that this video blog would allow people to come along on a flight lesson and do a virtual ride in the backseat.
Jeff: It was good seeing you at Oshkosh and I really enjoyed meeting people who've been following the blog. Sorry I almost hit you with my cart—next year I will try harder. :)
Steve: You're right - you can get a sport pilot ticket for less than I did. In fact, I'd guess that $3500-$4000 is more average than my cost of just over $5000. I had slightly more hours than average and it took me longer on the calendar than most due to a few factors which I hope to post about soon (things like weather, airplane maintenance, instructor availability). My training took about 9 months, of which I was only flying about 4 1/2 months of. That means I had 4-6 hours of lessons just to get caught up again. I've learned that this is part of real life flying though. Learning how not to give up when the conditions aren't ideal and you hit some obstacles. We persevered and finally made it though. I should also note that the figures up top were meant to show what my training would've cost to give people an idea of my training expenses. Remos graciously donated the plane to EAA to use for this project and for the AirAcademy program, and NAFI donated Jason's time and instruction. Therefore, EAA's real cost for this project was extremely low - fuel and maintenance costs - but we wanted to reflect what it would've cost had we paid for everything. We calculated $99/hr. for the airplane wet, which is what a similar Remos rents for here in Oshkosh, and $36/hr. for instruction, which is typical for instruction here. Obviously these prices will vary from location to location depending on the plane and instructor, but I think these figures are close to average for most places.
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@ 01:50 AM, August 07
Yo Brady,
I'm sure all your blog viewers would like to see just one more flight now that you have your ticket! (pref with a passenger, instructors not allowed!!!)
Jg.
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@ 05:33 AM, August 07
Conragulations :-)
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@ 12:45 PM, August 07
Congratulations!
It has been a joy to fly with you and Jason for these last few months.
Ken
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@ 01:28 PM, August 07
CONGRATULATIONS, BRADY!
Good job on the checkride!
I've enjoyed watching you learn... What's next, an instrument rating?? What a great series that would make!
Mike
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@ 03:10 PM, August 07
Great Job. You really inspired me to take the plunge. I'm just under 20 hours in and lovin it. I do have a request, now that you have succeeded. I would love to see a gag reel. Just a thought. Again great job.
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@ 03:23 PM, August 07
Brady, congratulations!!great blog, next time your in Florida come by and we can take the Maverick around the patch!!
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@ 10:01 AM, August 10
Congrats my friend! I spent 2 days at Oshkosh and really wanted to shake your hand, but I was soon overwhelmed (my 1st time) and missed you :-) Enjoy that new 'ticket', I've got a 'whole' 60hrs under my belt and every hour is a new adventure!
Brian
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@ 12:42 AM, August 12
Great job!!! Thanks for these videos, there wonderful,
Joel
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@ 04:13 PM, August 13
Congrats again Brady on a fine job of learning to fly. I have passed ground school and will be making my first flight lesson this evening around 23:00Z time.
God bless,
Russ
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@ 09:37 AM, August 17
During the course of the checkride, I was asked hundreds of questions, both in flight and on the ground. For the sake of the video, I obviously didn't want to show you all the questions, but just select a random one to show what these checkrides are like. I find it humorous that one of the questions I selected to put in the video, I actually answered incorrectly. And to beat that, I didn't discover it was incorrect until I was in front of a small crowd at AirVenture during one of our forums.
So, the correct response to the currency question I was asked is 3 take offs and landings in the previous 90 days, not 60 days. I figure the reason the examiner didn't correct me was because I erred on the side of safety, but the regulations do say 90 days.
I'm definitely still learning and appreciate those of you who caught this mistake. I'm sure I will never forget this regulation now! :)
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@ 06:58 PM, August 18
How about a post about your first passenger???
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@ 03:51 AM, August 20
Brady
Long time no hear. I was just wondering how the flying has been going. Have you been able to take up a few passengers yet? I took my wife up as my first pax and she really enjoyed it. Next was my son who was in Florida with me during the flight training process...I think we might have another pilot in the making! Learning to fly was one of the greatest experiences of my life and sharing it with your loved ones only makes it that more special.
I am back in Italy now and plan to work with a local flying group to get into the Ultra Light (Planes up to 450Kg) flying until I am able to finish my private pilot certificate. Then I should be able to take a short course to transfer the certificate to a European license. I am also very seriously considering, at the suggestion of my flight examiner, to become a Sport Pilot CFI. What better than to help others achieve their dreams!
Take care my friend and keep us up to date on your flying adventures.
Ciao,
Randy
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