Own your own Cessna 172!

October 25, 2008

I started out as a student pilot way back in 1967, when I was 21. I’m 63 now, and in the meantime lots of things have changed my life. Not all changes and happenings were to my taste. One I remember with great joy is the glorious day when I was allowed to fly a P51 Mustang fighter on account of the owner, who recently had outfitted the aircraft with a second seat and set of controls, being thirsty and out of money. I remedied the latter, enabling him to subsequenty take care of the former. Not before my flight, of course!

Other changes were less pleasant, like the rather picturesque and unfortunately progressive range of neurological ailments that grounded me forever. So I’m flying nothing more than a computer desk now, my monitor showing MS FlightSim with usually my personal Avro Lancaster bomber instrument panel. I never got the chance to fly that one in real life, but now I can at least make believe! And I must admit that it’s rather realistic, as far as computer simulations go.

I also sell aeroplanes now, on my interesting webstore Good Aircraft where even a general aviation and aircraft related search engine is installed. All sorts of flying things are listed there, from gyrocopters to business jets, and it’s fairly easy to find your own Cessna or Piper there in order to buy it decently cheap! Of course you can’t fly safely without good manuals and other instruction stuff, and you’ll be amazed at how much documentation is still available even for antique aircraft. For me the world of aviation is still very much alive, even though I can’t pilot a real world aircraft anymore. I am still fully immersed in what was, is and will be my hobby.

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