It’s an exciting experience that gets under your skin, and makes you want to learn more.
Fun and Adventure: The first time you take control of an airplane is an experience you won’t forget. It’s an exciting experience that gets under your skin, and makes you want to learn more. Each new maneuver can be challenging, but you’re having fun during the process. A pilot’s certificate lets you experience this over and over again. Exploration: Flying gives you a brand new perspective on the world. Although you may have been wowed a time or two through the tiny window of a commercial airline, the experience changes completely once you get to control where you go and what you want to see. What is mundane on the ground can be new, exciting, and even beautiful from the air. And, since flying allows you to get to remote areas with much greater speed and ease than driving, you can make a point of exploring areas you haven’t gotten to before. Accomplishment: Certain parts of pilot training can be downright difficult, but that’s a good thing. When you stick to and master a new skill, or bit of knowledge, you get the satisfaction of knowing you worked it out. Even experienced pilots learn something new every time they fly. Sightseeing: Maine and the surrounding areas offer many beautiful places to see and visit, but they can be spread out and remote. Enjoying the rocky shoreline, Mt. Katahdin or Moosehead Lake from the air is not something to be missed. Fast, Traffic Free Travel: Once you can begin traveling to your destination in a straight line, at 100 miles per hour or greater, never having to worry about tourist traffic or construction, travel times start to shrink dramatically. New opportunities to visit family, friends, or places of interest open up to pilots. Here are a few examples of travel times from Bangor (assuming a straight flight at 100 knots):