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Your first crash - $50!
Your second crash - $75!
Your third crash - $100!
Learning to to fly on your own - priceless!!!!!
Everything in the world today seems to need a instructor. Are we all really that scared of failure? What happened to if you fall off the horse get back on and try again? People I ask you? If courage and conviction are to be judged as negative qualities, and no one ever trys anything or experiments on their own. How do you suppose this hobby has advanced to this level, and continues to advance?
Just curious?
first flight with instructor - $0
second flight with instructor - $0
a month of flights with instructor - $0
a summer of soloing while hanging out with guys in club - $0
gaining new friends and having a knowledge base to refer to - priceless.
I would hardly call cutting your fingers on a running engine part of a steep learning curve. Not to be a jerk, but I will be for a second, had you been with someone with any level of knowledge on these first few flights, your cost would have been nothing, your fingers would still be intact, and you would have made new friends. To say this is frightening..had you run your plane into someone while learning, would that simply have been part of the steep learning curve? Or running the plane into someones house?
To say that learning to fly on your own is indicitive of someone who "thinks outside the box" and those that tend to lean toward the logical and flying with an instructor as inside the box thinkers is truly offensive.
If courage and conviction are to be judged as negative qualities, and no one ever trys anything or experiments on their own. How do you suppose this hobby has advanced to this level, and continues to advance?
This is the most irresponsible thing Ive read on these boards. Theres a big difference between experimentation and learning. You experiment once you understand the concepts. Theres also a big difference between being responsible and being selfish. Thinking that you can just throttle up and go is absolutely the most selfish thing I hear in this hobby. Some flyers have done it, congrats, and you are lucky you didnt hurt someone else in the process. Say you are out being "couragous" and run your plane into my son. I guarentee you Im not buying your argument.