[Red Badger]

AVIATION PING!....................

[crusty old prospector]

Coo.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Even budget-conscious flight schools are ready to meet the $674,000 to $1.3 million price tag, depending on model and add-ons.

I'll take two!

[BenLurkin]

They’ll all come down by themselves eventually don’t they?

[MeanWestTexan]

One of the parachute models deployed and landed in my office parking lot in 2018.

[dfwgator]

[Secret Agent Man]

Looks like a really nice aircraft.

[Billthedrill]

Very interesting. My first student solo cross-country got a little exciting on the third leg VFR-wise and that would have been a very comforting safety feature. My instructor would have laid an egg if I’d had to use it, but it beats an accident.

[Bobalu]

Pretty much everything about flying a small plane comes naturally after a short exposure to how the controls work.

But landing, now that is the tough part... talk about being nervous at first. It is only cured by long afternoons of touch and go practice.

The only real reason most teens are not pilots is that the price of admission is many times that of driving a car... it’s not really hard but it is really expensive.