Pay It Forward - FREE: Flight training videos

[Texas T]

Here's about $400 - $600 original cost worth of VHS videos for anyone that's interested in learning how to fly. These videos are probably 15 years old so much of the airspace information is NOT going to be correct due to changes in regulations, due to 9-11, etc, but the basics are still going to be the basics. If you've always wanted to learn to fly or if you would like to try to instill that interest in a youngster this would be a good way to start off.

If a Houston area person wins it I'll meet you somewhere to make the transfer. If you are out of town YOU will pay the shipping. Probably about $10-$15 I would think. 19 tapes, plus packing is over 12 pounds.

If you would like these (all or nothing) reply to this thread and give me your city and pick a number between 1-100. I have a number selected and the number that is closest to this without going over will win the tapes.

Make sure you're not duplicating someone else's number ahead of you in the replies. This is better than just restricting it to the first person that happens to read the message. This is a process we use over on Glock Talk and it works well. The giveaway will run until 3 pm CST on Sunday, July 1. That means you have until 2:59 pm to post up a number.

PLEASE do not take these just to re-sell them on eBay or something similar; I could have done that myself.

The videos are by KING (http://www.kingschools.com/productDetail.asp?itemNo=EPD%20PPEC%20DVDPC) and include the following:

Private Pilot Written Exam Course (6 tapes)

Private Pilot Flight Test (2)

Takeoffs & Landings made easy

VFR with confidence

IFR with confidence

Flying the Citation

Hanger flying with a point

Complete Jeppesen Chart Review

Complete Airspace Review (this will be very outdated)

Practical Piloting

Communications

Rules to fly by

Weather Wise

http://www.thorn.org/images/misc/tapes.jpg

[BlackWidow]

Hey,
Where as i have no interest in flying, one of my buddies is a fanatic about planes, and fighter planes in general. He will be enrolling in the Sugar Land mini airport sometime in August.

If no one wants the i'll gladly meet you and pick them up and forward them to him, in hope of him becoming a better and safer pilot! Coz he's a total ******** when it comes to biking! Rides like maniac and wishes for a GSXR1000 in two stroke every night religiously!

:zen:

I pick 19...from Sugar Land...

[Dragwn]

My guess would be 69

City is Plano,TX or my work addy which is Dallas,TX

[Project-RD]

Oooh ... I'll throw my # in the hat ... 42 ... city: Houston ...

[Texas T]

Moe,
Read the instructions again.

[NUTT]

Wow, I logged about 45 hours and never finished. I'd love to get these and study up for when I get behind the flight controls again.

14 - Tomball

I'll even buy you a beer when I pick them up!!

[SirWilhelm]

I'll join the fray. I have had one real lesson, and flew Microsoft Flight Simulator until the OS changed and it wouldn't work.

Out in San Angelo, and the number is 59. Good number that changes in August.
;-)

What a gorgeous day to ride. 85 and overcast in West Texas.

[Texas T]

I have had one real lesson, and flew Microsoft Flight Simulator until the OS changed and it wouldn't work.

The bounty builds. I have found the written materials too. One book each of:
Flight Test
Written Exam Course

Some minor scribbling in the Written Exam course (in pencil) but not much at all.


As to MSFT Flt Sim, my first experience with that was in 1983 on the Commodore 64 before MSFT bought them out. As part of my office clean-up yesterday I also found the manual to my first copy of MSFT Flt Sim dated 1989. Over 200 pages.

Quoting from the manual...
System Requirements:
IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2, or compatible
At least 384K RAM if running CGA.
At least one floppy - double-sided, low or high density
CGA, EGA, VGA, or Hercules Monochrome graphics card
MS-DOS (ver 2 or later) or PC-DOS

Those were the days, huh? :mrgreen:

[whoa]

This is cool. I had a Cessna 172, so I'll drop the 1 and use 72 for my number. I'd like to get my son in a glider, which is a great way to learn to fly.

I got FS when thinking about IFR. Kept using after I blew that idea off, since its a great simulator.

What I learned about instrument fixation is one of the reasons I bought a GPS too small to read while riding. Good stuff those videos are, even if you don't want to learn to fly. Weather, navigation, how/why things work... very cool offer Texas T.

[texas_vfr]

As to MSFT Flt Sim, my first experience with that was in 1983 on the Commodore 64 before MSFT bought them out. As part of my office clean-up yesterday I also found the manual to my first copy of MSFT Flt Sim dated 1989. Over 200 pages.

WOW!! I actually remember that game. Heck, I still have my C64 and my two 1541 drives, and they all WORK! Now I need to see if I still have the game. I know I still have my Ultima's. How geeky is that??? :giveup:

Since I am pursuing my Private, I'll join in. My number is 34. :)

[Texas T]

Heck, I still have my C64 and my two 1541 drives, and they all WORK! I've still got my C64 as well, but only one of the 1541 drives, the cassette tape drive, and a C-Itoh 9-pin dot matrix printer that cost me over $300 in 1983! :shock:

But that thing was (is) durable as anything I've ever owned. I ran it until 1996 and it's been on a shelf ever since.

[D'artagnan]

Put me down for #25.

[Dragwn]

I have my Commodore64 still in the original box with all the manuals and such, no extras but it does have a price tag $184.69

[Squeaky]

I have my Commodore64 still in the original box with all the manuals and such, no extras but it does have a price tag $184.69

With inflation, that's like $599 now, huh? ;-)

[dixonduke]

Lets hope that closeness counts in geographically too.... ;)

37 is my number.

(What a great idea, and way to share,)...

[FrenzyRider]

I have a 600. So i'll drop the last two and my number is

6

[Texas T]

This is cool. I had a Cessna 172, so I'll drop the 1 and use 72 for my number. I'd like to get my son in a glider, which is a great way to learn to fly. The actual number was 87 so Whoa was the closest without going over. Send me an email with your name/address and I'll try to get these in the mail to you tomorrow. After I mail it I'll follow up with an email with the actual shipping costs and you can send me a check or paypal. Congratulations on winning and I hope your son really gets the bug. I absolutely love to fly and enjoyed nothing more than buzzing up and down the valley when I lived out in Modesto, CA.

[whoa]

Very cool! Can't wait to check them out. PM sent.
Thanks a bunch.