Have just been reading a few of the threads about hour building and I wanted to say:
While I know that there are a lot of flight schools in Florida and the weather is reasonably good there, and it is great for newbies bashing the circuit and learning the basics, what I can't understand is...
Why do so many of you want to hour-build there?
Hour-building is about building flight experience in different environments!
The last thing I want to see in a pilot's logbook is 250 hours of flight time in Florida -
Naples to Ockeechobee, Stuart to Melbourne, Fort Pierce to Marco Island.....on and on - MSA for the whole route: 2000 ft....Zzzzzz.
So, the average newbie goes off and gets 250 hours of time in a Cessna or a Piper and still have never flown in or near a mountain range - no variable terrain or weather experience at all.
Try Arizona or Nevada in the summer. Or Montana in winter. Alaska!!
Canyons, mountains, hot and high, flying in winter with frost and snow on the ground - none of this on a standard 250 block Florida special.
Get taildragger experience. That really separates the men from the boys.
Become AVIATORS for God's sake!
Hour building in Florida?
Apart from a few hours over the Everglades, you might as well just sit on the apron at idle, watching the Hobbs go round.
