Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, aviation and flying are pretty much hammered into your psyche from Day 1. Between the Dayton Air Show, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and childhood tours of the Wright brother's home/shop, it's easy for an impressionable young man to develop an attraction to flight. So now, after almost 50 years of dreaming, I hope to soon begin the quest for my Private Pilot's license -- time and money permitting. I've purchased several books and started getting familiar with everything that will be required of me as a student. I've even started listening to ATC chatter on the scanner to try and get comfortable with that aspect of flying. I hope to start the process within the next 12-18 months if everything goes as planned.
For those of you that fly or are currently working towards your license, what do you know now that you wish you knew before you started flying???
Oh....and I already know about the cutting up of the shirt after your first solo flight!
