What do people do with a PPL?

[Dr Jekyll]

This guy did something useful with his PPL

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/5...

scroll down to post 7 for the full story.

[Condi]

Dr Jekyll said:

This guy did something useful with his PPL

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/5...

scroll down to post 7 for the full story.

Bit serious. Sadly I have no young maiden to rescue from across borders.

Thanks for all the replies. Wont hurt to apply to a few commercial schemes and see what happens.... if Im going to get paid well for sitting behind a desk better that the desk goes somewhere interesting rather than stay in one place.

[SpamCan]

A bit late to the party with this one. After passing my PPL I stooged around for nearly a year renting the club C150 that I learned to fly on and latterly the C172 taking friends and family flying, going to a few airfields around the UK. Then my hand was forced to move on as the CFI and club owner announced his retirement, closing of the club and sale of the aircraft. I could have moved to another club based on Humberside International but I fancied a change from the renting of Cessna’s and found a local syndicate offering shares in a Slingsby T67M Firefly; I was smitten from the get go, crisp handling, nice direct (pushrod rather than cable) controls, good cruise performance and fantastic visibility and for when I get round to it IFR capable.

Anyway I’m babbling on about “My” aeroplane, since passing my PPL I have done the following:
Night Rating
Variable Pitch prop sign off (necessary for the Firefly)
Several £100 burger runs to different airfields
Plenty of sight-seeing with family friends and work colleagues

What do I plan to do in the short term:
Aerobatics qualification
IR(R) or possibly leave it a bit longer and do the the full IR – not decided yet
Fly to France and Ireland (day trips or overnight stops)

Dream:
Learn to fly a warbird
Fly that warbird over the Atlantic and into Sun and Fun Florida and the EAA air venture at Oshkosh and fly it back again.

it is a dream because at the moment I don't have the finances to operate an aircraft that costs £4000/hr to run before the other associated costs.

So far my only ‘regret’ is that I did not do it sooner (a loose term as I enjoyed drag racing at a national level for a few years).

My PPL blog is on here somewhere (I’ll find the link) though it has gone to the dogs picture wise because of photo bucket.

I’m floating half and half on the commercial licence front, I don’t really want to be flying big jets, to some it’s the pinnacle of it all but for me; I’d rather flying a piper cub and tree top level and drop in to a backyard strip to deliver people/supplies, I wouldn’t want to be flying anything bigger than large piston or small turboprop twins.