You don't need to say sorry because you are quite correct Gerhardt. I think there are a pile of guys who really think their !!!! doesn't stink in this industry and they carry that for a long while until they meet or have to work around others who their skills and experience pale in comparison too. The circut wonder instructors I have met seem to have the worst attitude and most of my buddies probably think the same of me! hahaha.
There is a time somewhere in ones career when suddenly you wake up and realise this life is not a re-run of Topgun and you are just another pilot. That's the day you get on with being a pilot, provider and the ego disipates.
So, the sentiment seems to be throw caution to the wind and run with your dream. Who really care? I certainly don't and if you will not listen to the advise of guys like 170', Brian, Bert or 540 then take the under 1000hr crowds word and spend. Either way you can't take it when you die...right?
Hillerbee: obviously a 20yr old has more opportunity to recover if it goes wrong and flexibility to drop everything and head wherever the career calls. No offence taken nor intended from moi.
Brian -
who said I have ever had to stop fixing cars! I was a looooong way off 40 at that time and as for low hours: True (we all had in comparison to you) but I probably had more hours than you had when they sent you off in a kahki huey
By the way - how do you fit 17 pax in a 204?
