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May 11, 2006, 3:14am

Incase anyone is interested, just a small insight to my (DaBean)
personal life,

Yesterday morning I submitted my paperwork and books.
Thismorning, I went and picked up that very important, blue piece of
paper, known as my Commercial Pilots Liscence. So, as an addition to the
"curious" thread, growing up with activeworlds? not really.. came back
in 2004 (Feb) after a brief visit in 1997 or so. Ended up winning a year
and a bit free citizenship, and after that ran out I renewed for a year.
Did AW help me get where I am? I think so, although that could be seen
as a 'bad' thing as well. AW, in addition to my job, and regular sleep
schedule, kept me from wasting all my money on booze and parties, but in
turn limited my social life. The other bonus, as previously mentioned is
the reception of 20 months of training on a piece of blue paper with a
few words printed on it, worth a good $25 000, that makes me a
Commercial Pilot.

Thank you AW, for helping me attain this goal, and I'm sure the
community here will keep me enthused to upgrade my liscence to multi
engine aircraft, flying by instroment (multi-ifr), then my turbine, and
jet engine.

Cheers! Best of luck to the youngins out there, keep in school, work
hard, find something your interested in, study it, and keep at it. I'm
proof that a heck of alot can be done before you turn twenty, as I am 19
years old, and am guarenteed a job getting paid to fly charters in the
near future, possibly before the end of the summer.

FlyYukon, AKA DaBean

May 11, 2006, 3:19am

One more thing to the youngins.. be careful with your money, and you can
finish your schooling and start your career with no debt, no loans,
nobody trying to cut your legs off, and a nice savings in the bank,..
like me. Be smart, budget, dont drink often, and please don't do drugs
of any kind, and if you must do drugs, PLEASE limit yourself to
Marijuanna, and dont do it often. Cheers!

May 11, 2006, 4:18am

[View Quote] > Incase anyone is interested, just a small insight to my (DaBean)
> personal life,
>
> Yesterday morning I submitted my paperwork and books.
> Thismorning, I went and picked up that very important, blue piece of
> paper, known as my Commercial Pilots Liscence. So, as an addition to the
> "curious" thread, growing up with activeworlds? not really.. came back
> in 2004 (Feb) after a brief visit in 1997 or so. Ended up winning a year
> and a bit free citizenship, and after that ran out I renewed for a year.
> Did AW help me get where I am? I think so, although that could be seen
> as a 'bad' thing as well. AW, in addition to my job, and regular sleep
> schedule, kept me from wasting all my money on booze and parties, but in
> turn limited my social life. The other bonus, as previously mentioned is
> the reception of 20 months of training on a piece of blue paper with a
> few words printed on it, worth a good $25 000, that makes me a
> Commercial Pilot.
>
> Thank you AW, for helping me attain this goal, and I'm sure the
> community here will keep me enthused to upgrade my liscence to multi
> engine aircraft, flying by instroment (multi-ifr), then my turbine, and
> jet engine.
>
> Cheers! Best of luck to the youngins out there, keep in school, work
> hard, find something your interested in, study it, and keep at it. I'm
> proof that a heck of alot can be done before you turn twenty, as I am 19
> years old, and am guarenteed a job getting paid to fly charters in the
> near future, possibly before the end of the summer.
>
> FlyYukon, AKA DaBean

Excellent!!!

My best wishes to you in air and on the ground,
--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

May 11, 2006, 10:53pm

Congratulations!!!

[View Quote] > Incase anyone is interested, just a small insight to my (DaBean)
> personal life,
>
> Yesterday morning I submitted my paperwork and books.
> Thismorning, I went and picked up that very important, blue piece of
> paper, known as my Commercial Pilots Liscence. So, as an addition to the
> "curious" thread, growing up with activeworlds? not really.. came back
> in 2004 (Feb) after a brief visit in 1997 or so. Ended up winning a year
> and a bit free citizenship, and after that ran out I renewed for a year.
> Did AW help me get where I am? I think so, although that could be seen
> as a 'bad' thing as well. AW, in addition to my job, and regular sleep
> schedule, kept me from wasting all my money on booze and parties, but in
> turn limited my social life. The other bonus, as previously mentioned is
> the reception of 20 months of training on a piece of blue paper with a
> few words printed on it, worth a good $25 000, that makes me a
> Commercial Pilot.
>
> Thank you AW, for helping me attain this goal, and I'm sure the
> community here will keep me enthused to upgrade my liscence to multi
> engine aircraft, flying by instroment (multi-ifr), then my turbine, and
> jet engine.
>
> Cheers! Best of luck to the youngins out there, keep in school, work
> hard, find something your interested in, study it, and keep at it. I'm
> proof that a heck of alot can be done before you turn twenty, as I am 19
> years old, and am guarenteed a job getting paid to fly charters in the
> near future, possibly before the end of the summer.
>
> FlyYukon, AKA DaBean

May 12, 2006, 12:08am

lol, don't know how it worked for you, but AW definatly didn't keep me away
from pissing quite alot of money on alcohol, clubs and such. kind of gave me
a reason to go actually, i'd be online, bored as hell, so i'd phone friends
and get them to go out.

But congratulations! So, how long until you start your jet engined training?
:) i
pretty slow of me, but i think i just got your name! Fly Yukon, heheh,
like, when they say Fly British Airways and such. i think anyway? just,
who/what's yukon?

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May 12, 2006, 2:45am

If I got bored i just got lazy lol.. anyways, Fly Yukjon.. I live in
the yukon, and I fly.. voila! (Yukon Canada)

My goal is not to fly Jets, but to stick to the bush flying, which is
actual flying, not monitoring dials and screens and pressing the
autoland button. Good for a pre-retirement job tho :)

May 12, 2006, 7:29am

Nice going :D I'm trying to get enough money together to go for my
private pilot's license, although being 14 kinda limits me to being a
simulator nut so far :P Did my first flight in a PA28 last year, after
having done about 4,000 simulator hours (FS2004)...the instructor was
quite surprised at my skill level (basically I had the plane pretty much
all the way to landing). So yeah, that's what you can do if you ignore
everyone saying video games don't teach you anything. They taught me
how to fly a plane to a high standard.



-Lt

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May 12, 2006, 3:08pm

My strategy.. get a job (I started working at 11) and put 50% of the
paychek away to an account you cant touch otherwise, and do that. Should
have enough to get your private liscence by 17 or 18 :D

May 12, 2006, 4:46pm

Not as easy as that in the UK - you can't even THINK about making money
'till you're 17. I guess it's just another part of this government
thinking everybody under 18 is automatically a drug-crazed lunatic, and
everybody over 18 is a moron.


-Lt

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