Bravo NAPY. i spent some time watching BCP my self be for i joined (about a year)

Thanks for coming up with this thread, Renna. It has become one of my favorites because it reminds me how lucky I am to fly and makes me excited to hear about those who are just starting, or thinking about starting. Just as I'm always willing to give someone a ride (because I would have done anything for the chance to get a ride when I was younger), I love the fact that BCP provides a place for people all across the flying spectrum to enjoy this stuff together, no matter what they fly or how many hours they have in their logbook, if any.

Very cool.

not me! I aint a lurker, not a chance. Haven't even peeked in since last summer. My brother and I began the process of starting a trucking company last fall and that's kept me busy. Finally got things set up and started driving first of April. We were on the road a month, got the initial bills paid and decided to upgrade trucks. So we're waiting on a loan application process. Once it goes through we should be able to hit the road again and make a lot more $$. pay off the loan in short order and get on with it. We started small with a 27 year old one ton truck, upgrading to a better one ton. Maybe one 10 years old so it'll only be 1/3 of new price.

Anyway, we're just using the truckin to get us going on other things, I have some technology I need to develop into an income, but it'll take money and time so we're setting out to make the money. Once my little piece of technology gets developed into a good income (gigantic potential) I plan on helping get some pilots matched up with airplanes for what's generally called mission service. But in the process I'll have to obtain my own license to fly and something to get around in. My nature of loving the backcountry and hating the city puts me right in the seat of the best small bush plane I can find, and then I want to tune it for maximum short field performance. I hear it's best to learn on a tail wheel, so that's what I'll do. I also hear it's best to do instrument rating at the same time. Makes sense, since clouds and darkness happens on quite a regular basis. The just superstol looks like best choice so far. I'm only a couple hundred miles from them. My cousin (who lives with us) was working for a fella in KY a short time and came home with an instrument pilot training course that was given him. (boss has cessna for business) He's interested in flying but I doubt if he'll ever have enough spare money to do anything with it, he doesn't manage money very well. But I can use it.

Friends don't let friends lurk! Welcome lurky-loos! You're never the FNG for long - always one behind you.

Finally decided to jump in; long time lurker.

In a previous life (way too many years ago) used to fly for a paycheck out of KHHR (135 and instruction). Got married and had to find a real job. Unfortunately, time and such, never got back into it but like to read, dream and live vicariously. Who knows though? Maybe someday.

Lurking for months but coming out of the dark today. Live in Metro Detroit fly out of KPTK (oakland county). Contemplating jumping into aviation as a career but hard to leave the finance world behind - golden handcuffs.

Hi all! Been lurking around here for a good while. Got my PPL when I was 17, now Im 30... Used to fly alot then life (aka lack of money and time) took me for a different ride. Looking to get back into it. Figure now is as good a time as any, even though I am even more broke than before, oh well.

It's more fun being broke while flying, than broke not flying.

Gump

GumpAir wrote:It's more fun being broke while flying, than broke not flying.

Gump

i'm broke not flying. so i know

Gump, I concur. Definitely need to get back in the air. Guess I'll be needing some dual to gain back what I've lost.

Hello, my name is Phil, and I....am a lurker.

I've been a pilot for about 8 years. I used to belong to a flying club with a 85hp J3 and flew to every grass strip I could find. It was in upstate NY, but backyard strips were everywhere. It was far and away my favorite thing to do. Farms with grass strips littered the place. 3 years ago I moved to Boston and have been relegated to flying C172's on hard surfaces.
I am also an air traffic controller and have worked "the floor" at a bunch of airports and am currently a Tower Supervisor at Boston Logan Tower. I also worked the line at OshKosh tower for Airventure and Sun 'n Fun and am a Tower Supervisor at those events.

I'm around airplanes all day, but a small one would be a B737. It's far from the aviation community I enjoy. I've never met someone at a small grass strip that isn't positive and engaging. I miss that.

I lurk here to read "where did you fly today" and live vicariously. I see the pics of your planes and make plans for my life. I watch "Pops Dory" and Greg Swingle videos and wonder if I could do that. This site is a bit of aviation therapy for me, thanks Zane. Hope to see some of you guys at OSH.

If I can be useful in a post I'll contribute from now on...until then I'll lurk on!

Jarhead wrote:Hello, my name is Phil, and I....am a lurker.

I've been a pilot for about 8 years. I used to belong to a flying club with a 85hp J3 and flew to every grass strip I could find. It was in upstate NY, but backyard strips were everywhere. It was far and away my favorite thing to do. Farms with grass strips littered the place. 3 years ago I moved to Boston and have been relegated to flying C172's on hard surfaces.
I am also an air traffic controller and have worked "the floor" at a bunch of airports and am currently a Tower Supervisor at Boston Logan Tower. I also worked the line at OshKosh tower for Airventure and Sun 'n Fun and am a Tower Supervisor at those events.

I'm around airplanes all day, but a small one would be a B737. It's far from the aviation community I enjoy. I've never met someone at a small grass strip that isn't positive and engaging. I miss that.

I lurk here to read "where did you fly today" and live vicariously. I see the pics of your planes and make plans for my life. I watch "Pops Dory" and Greg Swingle videos and wonder if I could do that. This site is a bit of aviation therapy for me, thanks Zane. Hope to see some of you guys at OSH.

If I can be useful in a post I'll contribute from now on...until then I'll lurk on!

Welcome aboard Phil! All those big guys need to fly a small plane into grass strips to remember what sparked it for them. Grass/dirt/off airport is the grass roots of aviation. Sure is fun, hope you can eventually get off that hard stuff and onto soft stuff!

Jarhead wrote: 3 years ago I moved to Boston and have been relegated to flying C172's on hard surfaces.....

If I can be useful in a post I'll contribute from now on...until then I'll lurk on!

Welcome Phil! Thanks for chiming in and joining. Im down at PYM with my Skywagon project. She'll be flying here very soon. Not sure where you live in MA, but feel free to drive/fly down and say hello

Greg-

Hello everyone I'm Mike and I'm a lurker.

You see the thing is I just turned 15 last week so I feel that I don't really have an abundance of knowledge on many of the topics frankly because I'm not a pilot yet. I just read the threads and soak up all of the information that is put out there by all of the active BCP members...

From now on I will try to contribute any useful knowledge that I have to the BCP community and graduate from the lurker stage...

mrector wrote:Hello everyone I'm Mike and I'm a lurker.

You see the thing is I just turned 15 last week so I feel that I don't really have an abundance of knowledge on many of the topics frankly because I'm not a pilot yet. I just read the threads and soak up all of the information that is put out there by all of the active BCP members...

From now on I will try to contribute any useful knowledge that I have to the BCP community and graduate from the lurker stage...

welcome mike, well i'm no longer the youngest on the site now (18). to learn more, get and read some aviation magazines that's what i did.

Thanks

I do, my my dad's a member of aopa and his friends an instructor so he gives and tells me a lot of information. I also read a lot online...

Hi my name is Mike and I've been a lurker all my life. I didn't want to be a lurker it just happened, but thanks to BCP and there lurking support group I believe I can quit lurking and freely post to any thread I choose.
Thanks BCP

Welcome!

This is like a 12 step process for lurkers!

what are the 12 step's ?

In not sure on the rest but I think the first is to admit you have a problem, haha