Finally On My Way

Hi everyone,

01.The Boyhood Dream lol

I'm finally off to pursue the dream, or at least the frist part thereof. Left Waterford early this morning (5am) for Shannon airport. Just over 6 hours to New York with Continental, and on my first visit to the big apple, I am debating on how I will spend my time there, all 2 hours of it(!) before I head on again to Orlando international.

Anybody would think I liked flying lol.

Over the past four weeks since finally deciding to do this course, I have been chasing documents from Ormond Beach Aviation, my home for the next eight weeks, waiting on FedEx deliveries, obtaining clearance from 'Homeland Security', basically proving I'm not a Bin Laden, despite the uncanning resemblance, getting bank statements, sorting the loan, the sole question asked of me on arrival at the US embassy was...."Is there not a flying club in Waterford where you could do this?"

02. Airbus A380@ Paris Air Show 2005

Now, this was quite a revelation to me. NOT! And as I explained, the lads in Cork (Hi Guys lol) got me a flying voucher for my birthday (May 1st), and thanks to the Irish weather, that same voucher remains unused!

So off I go, eight weeks in Florida, to the heat, sunshine, and I'll try to update this as much as I can, and throw in a few photos. First 21 days should see me doing 7 exams and a flight test, 45 hours flying, and hopefully passing the first step, the Private Pilot's Licence. After that, flying solo for 100 hours and the last few days flying twin-engined aircraft.