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No experience = recipe for death

Len, seriously. Michigan is a paradise for General Aviation airports, and your pal is probably not more than a few miles away from an FBO that can get him started in a spam-can Cessna 152 or 172 that will be, as airplanes go, docile and forgiving of the kind of mistakes that EVERY new pilot makes. Surviving those mistakes is how you build experience. It is not possible to survive without the presence of a competent instructor who will literally say "my airplane" and take the controls before things get out of hand.

The thing about pilots (and you can see this pretty clearly in the writing of every one here) is that we're usually fundamentally safety conscious. Aviation tends to discourage adrenaline seekers for this reason-- the only time you ever get an adrenaline rush is when you make a horrible mistake.
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