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Jrtec13 · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 79 Location: California

Edit refer to my new post

ricktobin · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:29 am Post subject:

This info is straight from the FAA's website:

http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/pilotfaq.cfm#c

Student Pilot’s Certificate Requirements

Q. When do I need a student pilot’s certificate?

A. Before you can fly solo. You don’t need a student pilot’s certificate to take flying lessons.

Q. Am I eligible for a student pilot’s certificate?

A. You are eligible if--

* You are at least 16 years old. If you plan to pilot a glider or balloon, you must be at least 14 years old.

* You can read, speak, and understand English.

AND

* You hold at least a current third-class medical certificate. If you plan to pilot a glider or balloon, you only have to certify that you have no medical defect that would make you unable to pilot a glider or balloon.

Jrtec13 · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 79 Location: California

thank you sir. and what kinda glider would you reccomend when i turn 14.

Exxman · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:05 am Post subject:

ricktobin wrote: ...You hold at least a current third-class medical certificate. If you plan to pilot a glider or balloon, you only have to certify that you have no medical defect that would make you unable to pilot a glider or balloon.

Well that rules me out...

:(

Exxman

paulvil · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:10 am Post subject:

Call me a "mor" but if you can fly with a solo cert why do you need a P.P.L.?

Jrtec13 · Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 79 Location: California

i turn 14 on feb 20th so i dont have that far to go and all my friends say im stupid for liking planes, I say their crazy for not like them. and they say if you fly solo you will kill your self for sure.. That just really hurt my feelings and I feel like i could fly, I know flying is way different from fs2004 on the most realistic settings to the real thing. But i do have about 6 hours in a eurcoupe... so that should help. And what would a good beginners glider be?

Exxman · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:18 am Post subject:

There are always people out there that have nothing to offer other than put-downs. Ignore them jrtec...you are better than that. Stay the course, get as much info as you can and try to get near an aircraft as much as possible. We would like to see a pic of you and your plane when you get there...!!!

And get there you will.

Exxman

ricktobin · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

@ paulvil, you can fly without any documents provided their is a licensed pilot (or is it an instructor pilot?) sitting next to you. So, at 13, 14, 15; if you had a neighbor or someone like Jrtec13 does that fly's, you could go up with him and start learning early. Then when you start you're lessons you'll be ahead of the game. You need the student pilot certificate before you can fly the SOLO portions of the flight lessons.

@Jrtec13, ditto what Exx said. My 13 y.o. son has some pretty serious goals in mind and he's not letting anyone talk him out of them. He hopes to do the same as you by starting out early and eventually go into the Navy or the Air Force as a pilot. The hardest thing he has to face in that goal is the peer pressure between now and the end of high school. But you know what, when he's flying over NAS Oceana in an F-18 one day, he'll be able to look down on all those "friends" that said he couldn't do it.

Don't sell yourself short either..."I don't want to be an airline pilot"...who knows you may like flying so much and the opportunity may come up that you could do such a thing. I can't see anything wrong with that. It's rare that people can actually find a job where they get to do something they love and get paid for it.