Originally Posted by
Jaair
@KayPam really interesting suggestion. I've always been interested in aerobatics and tailwheel and considering I have to get my night rating anyway I might just do it too.
The problem is that since my license was issued I've done 2-3 hours of flying, and that was summer 2015. So my SEP rating would be expiring this summer. This was due to moving country and studying/working all the time. If I didn't have the flying bug I don't think I'd have the energy/motivation for studying full time as well as nearly full time work!
Considering this, would you say that it is worth getting back to exam standard now again or just save my money until I can give my 100% to flying full time (in a few years)?
What's the exam standard ? Are you talking about the theoretical standard or being able to re-pass a flight skill test ?
After two years without flying you should still be able to fly without any major problem.
Maybe you won't be able to get your night rating in the minimum 5 hours, but so what ?
You will train for maybe 7-8 hours instead of 5.
It just depends on your total time, how many hours of dual and pic do you have, as of right now ? If you have 90 hours of dual, then know any hour done after 100 hours of dual is "lost" (or at least spoilt) and you should follow hobbit's advice.
If you have 50 hours dual and 10 pic, then by all means you can do 20-30 hours of dual to learn what you like.
If you don't have a burning desire to get airbone (as hobbit said), yes you could do it all in one go.
But if that was the case, then maybe you should consider other carreer options as well... Becoming a pilot will require many sacrifices (the most obvious being the financial one, you could buy half or even en entire apartment with the price of a pilot training), if you think you could be happy by just being a private pilot then maybe evaluate your appetence for and competence in other fields before making an educated (mature) decision between that career (say, finance or whatever degree you're currently in) and a pilot career.
(All that under the big "IF" stated just hereabove)
I understand you are very busy with both work and study right now. You could plan one night vfr flight per week, and a large part of these flights (say half) will get canceled due to weather, there is very little theoretical knowledge to be learnt, and you could see these 2 monthly flight hours as an useful leisure.