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Permalink Reply by Gary Welch on October 13, 2016 at 2:54pm

Not sure where in Norcal you're located but Northcoast Air at STS has a Cessna 162 available for flight training. I recently took my flight review in it.

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Permalink Reply by Roger Wibbels on October 13, 2016 at 4:24pm

Thanks for the reply Gary, but I'm in the Central Valley (Merced) area.

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Permalink Reply by Roger Wibbels on October 13, 2016 at 6:37pm

There have been several issues to include a local flight school going out of business, a local CFI losing his lease on his plane, and of late I had another CFI who was initially interested in flying off the 40 hours of flight test time, decide that he didn't have the time.  I'm getting up in years, and not really interested anymore in flying anything other than my plane, let alone the expense these days, thus if I can get the 40 hours flown, then I can get instruction in my plane.  The nearest 152 is an hour and a half away, and after several trips, its evident that, although the two planes are somewhat similar, their flight characteristics are very different, and a license in the 152 won't necessarily make me a safe pilot to fly off my flight test period.  Or maybe I'm just being a wus!!

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Hoyt on October 15, 2016 at 7:17am

Perhaps he could go straight to Sport Pilot (via Buzz) on the 750. 

Give Buzz a call and ask him.  http://www.flybuzzair.com/

Buzz did my transition training.  Great learning experience, and when I got home the first thing I did was fly my own plane for the first time.

Patrick Hoyt

N63PZ

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Permalink Reply by Gary Welch on October 15, 2016 at 11:04am

It's an hour an 15 minute drive from you, and they don't have a light sport similar to yours, but have you considered this:

http://www.californiasportaviation.com/index.html

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Permalink Reply by Louis W. Ott on October 15, 2016 at 4:21pm

Have you tried Paul Hamilton's flight training center in Carson City, NV?

http://sportpilottraining.sportaviationcenter.com/

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Permalink Reply by Gary Welch on October 15, 2016 at 8:22pm

He is looking for something within reasonable distance from his home, I gathered. He needs to get his Sport Pilot license, not just transition training.

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Permalink Reply by Roger Wibbels on October 16, 2016 at 10:57am

Thanks for the help/tips.  I really appreciate the experimental community and the passion we share for flight.  I will look into these tips, in the meantime I will also continue to try to find a licensed pilot/cfi who would be willing to fly off the 40 hours.  My preferred course at this point is to get the license in my 701.

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