Not a fight, just lighthearted banter.
Interesting factoid: Military pilots graduate pilot training after about a year, and have about 200hrs total.
They are rated to fly under weather conditions spanning VFR to IMC, and with an additional hundred hours or so, can fly single seat jets to war.
(Some jets have a red switch labeled “nuke”—yikes!).
For civilians, last I checked, 200hrs and you can basically get paid for flying and 250hrs to get an instrument rating.
Bonanza, cool aircraft, was it a V-tail? Were your dad or mother a dentist? You do know the Bonanza was called a “dentist killer?” (It’s an old joke).
Cheers. . .have a good day. . .
“Bonanza, cool aircraft, was it a V-tail?”
Yes, hence the wing shimmy. While we hadit we flew some fairly long trips with it to Mexico. But the “go through” at Mexically/Collexico was always an adventure unless you greased some palms, both ways.
“For civilians, last I checked, 200hrs and you can basically get paid for flying and 250hrs to get an instrument rating.”
Becoming an instrument rated pilot requires 40 hours of simulated or actual IFR conditions. How long this takes depends on how often you are able to fly. My father was a good civilian pilot and worked hard at the game. But it was about twice a month he could get under the hood with either myself or my mother who was a vfr rated pilot with right hand seat time.
rwood