How to learn flying

As you know the most important focus of this blog is to people who want to fly their own airplane. Althought buying an airplane is quite expensive and not an easy thing, there is something even important that you do before that. To your surprise it may even be harder and more expensive than the aircraft itself. This is the flying education.

Nowadays it's not allowed to fly any kind of aircraft without having a proper license. But how can you get one?

First, you need to approach an aircraft school. Finding one in your area will be easy if you live in a big city with aviation traditions and might be near impossible if you are in a small town. So you may have to travel to the nearest large city for your aviation lessons.

Before you are able to start, you must pass medical exams. They are pretty serious even for the pilots of private airplanes (you can't imagine how much harder they are for commercial pilots). If you don't pass the exams you will not be able to fly. Sad., but you can't do anything about this (No one can stop you fly a paraglider however).

If you pass the exams, you need to prepare quite a lot of money for the flying education. In some cases this amount can exceed $7 - $8k. It's highly recommended that you also pay for additional flyign hours as the ones that are included in most packages are hardly enough.

Basically that's it. Happy flying!