I'm already bored after a week of having my temp certificate...

What should I do now that I have my license? I still need my High Performance & Tailwheel endorsements before I can think about touching my 185.

I think going for my instrument rating would be a smart idea but I'd rather do that in the 185 when the avionics get installed this summer. Still wouldn't hurt to get my feet wet in a 172!

Like before in all of my threads, fire away with any advice you can think of!
Ryan

Congrats!

As far as boredom after a week of having your ticket? You must be an extremely fast learner[emoji6]

Get a few hours of aerobatic time. It was one of the best thing I have done for improving my flying skills.
DENNY

Oh, the impatience of youth! (or is that "yoot"?)

Congrats on earning your license to learn! There is so much more out there, for you yet to learn. As I like to say, we are all students, just at different levels of training and experience.

The IR is very definitely worth it. It's a different kind of flying from what you've been doing, but you will become more precise, more knowledgeable about weather, and you will have to scrub fewer flights. You will also become a much safer pilot--those 3 hours or so you had of instrument flight for your private aren't by any means enough. It won't hurt you a bit to put it off for a few months, if you'd rather do it in the 185. My own IR training was in a 182, which flies very similarly, and it's a great instrument trainer.

Aerobatics is also definitely worth it. I was already a CFII and had several hundred hours in my logbook, but it gave me so much more confidence and skills that I didn't have before then. I will also say that having those skills saved my life at least once, perhaps twice. It was also a whole lot of fun, although I was never good enough to consider continuing with it to become competitive. I certainly recommend doing aerobatics sooner than later.

Cary

Get your glider and instrument ratings.

Plenty to keep you occupied.

Mike

Bored doing what over the last week? What have you been doing? Sitting at your office desk working? Or have you been flying?

Exciting is screeching tires in an out of control 185 heading for the ditch in a gusty crosswind. You don't really want that, do you?

As long as you're flying, boring isn't always bad. You need seat time. You are gaining experience every hour you spend in the airplane; any airplane. Sometimes flying around the patch is boring (maybe fatiguing is a better word), but if you have 500 hours of experience and 2000 landings under your belt in a variety of conditions, you will hopefully be a more competent pilot. Go do a bunch of stalls. Of course, get your TW and high performance endorsements. Get a float rating. Pretend you are flying a tail dragger and walk your feet on final even if you are flying a 172. As others have mentioned, get an instrument rating and do some unusual attitude training.

After your 500+ hours, you will look back and realize that you had a great time flying and it wasn't so boring. Many pilots can fly 750 hours in a year, and since you seem like an over achiever, you can get this experience by the end of summer....just in time for the 185 to come out of the shop. Then I won't be wringing my hands as much when you take controls of that beautiful bird.

gbflyer wrote:Congrats!

As far as boredom after a week of having your ticket? You must be an extremely fast learner[emoji6]

Or out of money![emoji1]

The best thing you can do is just fly...a lot. After getting my license I was eager to move on to my Instrument rating. Luckily my wiser instructor told me I needed to go out and just fly and gain experience. It was great advice.


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Grassstrippilot wrote:The best thing you can do is just fly...a lot. After getting my license I was eager to move on to my Instrument rating. Luckily my wiser instructor told me I needed to go out and just fly and gain experience. It was great advice.

+1

Just get something and go fly! You don't know what you're weak on until it hits you. Like it has been said; you have a learners permit! Go out and learn more of what you have merely been introduced to during the course of your instruction. Work on improving your slow flight skills; this will develop you into a better pilot. Since you have a 185, you will need them.

Focus on stick n rudder skills, fundamentals. Tailwheel and aerobatics should be a lot of fun, and will help prepare you for flying the 185.


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The suggestions to pursue a glider rating, getting some aerobatic instruction (or at least taking an upset recovery course) and pursuing an instrument rating are all good advice. Still, if you are bored with flying a week after getting your license, perhaps you've chosen the wrong avocation. I've been flying for more than 40 years and I still marvel at the magic of it all each time I take off. I've experienced a lot of emotions in all of my years of flying, but boredom hasn't been one of them.

pilotryan wrote:I'm already bored after a week of having my temp certificate...What should I do now that I have my license?...

Now go learn to fly.

All you really have is a learners permit, and at this point you know almost nothing about flying. Focus on what Skalywag said. Go high and practice slow flight, really slow flight, and not just in a straight line. Get over a river, one with lots of bends. Fly as slow as the plane will fly and stay right over the river. Learn to keep the ball dead center, otherwise you will be dead.

Learn to land with precision. Find a 30' wide runway and learn to always land in the middle and dead straight. Seek out runways with crosswinds, learn to land them dead straight, that's what you will need to do in any taildragger - no crab landings.

Pick a precise spot on the runway, every runway, every time, and learn to touchdown within the length of the airplane, every time. Once you've accomplished that then do it in ten feet, every time. Oh, and bouncing back in the air doesn't count.

Learn to slip to landing, both right and left, and hit your precise spot.

Now load the airplane to gross and go do this all over again.

Once you've got this down then find a runway with a 25-50 foot obstruction and start all over again.

Should keep you busy, and frustrated, and excited, and scared for the next three of four hundred hours in your log book. Guaranteed you won't be bored any more.

You need seat time. You'll also need cross country before the instrument. Since you have a 185 coming, let your insurance be your guide: you need tailwheel time. Open pilot clauses are high on skywagon insurance for a reason.

Go get paired up with a seasoned instuctor and any tailwheel airplane you can rent on a regular basis. Don't get distracted with "cub, citabria, or Cessna...." just get in it. Get your endorsement and seek out crosswinds eveytime you fly. If you are really pushing yourself every flight to learn, an hour will be "enough."

Bill

I was thinking along the same lines as Bill in the previous post. I would try to go get as much TW time as possible before picking up that 185. It'll be a lot more plane that you are used to, especially due to more HP and having a TW. Heck, go find a Cub/Champ or something that's cheap and fly the heck out of it.

Bored? Really? Maybe stepping down off your podium and doing as others have suggested will eliminate this feeling.
Flying is F-----G amazing and I'm grateful for each and every time I get to go. So many people have shitty lives and will
never get to experience the thrill of flying period, let alone flying in a small airplane that YOU are at the controls of.
Bored? Unbelievable

I can't recall ever getting bored in an airplane. Always something to practice, or somewhere to explore, and always a new skill to learn. This afternoon, my third flight of the day, I spent half an hour shooting approaches to a spot I have been shooting approaches to without landing for a while now. Wind was just right, but too muddy...one of these days it will all come together...never gets old!

Let's have some fun with this....

If you get bored flying airplanes you should:

1, Fly a pretty girl to breakfast.

Next.....

2. Find a different hobby.

While I'm in no position to comment on boredom while flying, the timing of this post is ironic. After moving to the airpark here in SW New Mexico I've been on the fence for 10 months as to what will occupy the hangar. Racking up hours after my solo at 11.8 hours some 37 years ago, I didn't feel the level of excitement when comparing running off a mountain foot launching my old hang glider. I didn't know when I moved to New Mexico that this area was a hot bed of weight shift trike activity. Well I did due diligence and researched what the latest advances in the trike world was and visited a trike forum. Today's trikes can cruise at over 100 mph and a brand new trend is being addressed with a launch date of April 5th, a extremely STOL USA designed and built trike. Of course this STOL isn't going to cruise at 100 mph, but will do 55 while sipping 2 gph from a 80 hp Rotax 912.

Now on the trike forums I was very surprised at all the GA pilots that have moved to trikes because of the fun factor. Maybe your a future weight shift pilot and don't know it yet??

So...
3. Fly a weight shift trike.
Keep em' coming, this boy needs serious help....

I probably could have chosen a better word than bored. Keep in mind I only got in two flights in since then...

What I do mean is that I feelt like I wasn't learning anything or trying to be a better pilot. I'm going to wait a week and wait for the buzz and the excitement to fade and then hop off of my high horse and try to improve my slow flight. Once I got slow flight down I'll start experimenting with my short & soft field techniques.

I'll start work on my instrument rating in the mean time. The worst thing I could do is to completely stop flying until the 185 is finished and get my tailwheel and high performance endorsements in my airplane. My goal for that airplane is to not crash/loop/break it and not refining my skills brings the risk factor up just a lil bit.

CFOT wrote:Let's have some fun with this....

If you get bored flying airplanes you should:

1, Fly a pretty girl to breakfast.

I'll start messing with that when all of my ducks are in the same pond... everyone seems to think that a lady friend is going to lighten my wallets. I wonder why they think that...


Thanks again guys. Like many before me have said, this is a license to learn and that you gotta keep searching for knowledge. With that being said I'll leave you guys with this...



Ryan