I need to find someplace where I am that will be able to teach me for a sport pilot license. And that can take my GI bill to pay for it

here is the place to start:
http://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/learn-to-fly.html
http://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/le.....test-prep.html
they have lots of resourses for the beginner
--Rick

Sweet thank you

best of luck!
--Rick

It happens.

That moment of truth, once you're past the apprehension, indeed nothing can compare to that. Well done, Chucky!

That point when you were no longer nervous and instead, amped and empowered must have been glorious! :D

SOAR skunky, SOAR!

Ha! That's it, lad! Enjoy the moment.

Yes, yes, visually clean in the last panel, I mean would not want the back of the instrument panel blocking the shot, or just a length of whatever the rod is called, collective maybe, the control stick is connected to heading out the bottom of the panel...

Sadly, placement (And I really don't see where else it could have gone.) Makes the stick of joy seem somewhat happier, given the young man's expression.

Sorry.

Those straight-on scenes in the cockpit have always been a bit of a battle as to how to depict the instrument panel.

My wife and I were joking about that as well.

Well...

He does look HAPPY to be up alone...

Woohoo! Go, Chucky!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

Music running through my head on the occasion of my first solo back in 1982... :D

What did you fly on your first solo?

Cessna 152. Second solo, a few weeks later, was my father's 1946 Ercoupe. :D

Freakin' cool man! Are you still flying? I'd love to fly an Ercoupe.

Alas, my flying career ended when my father passed away later in 1982 (although I did go on to get my A&P certificate). We found a buyer for the Ercoupe, though, and it's still knocking about Whiteman Air Park in Pacoima, CA last I checked... :D

Really? After all this time it's still there? That's pretty cool.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2.....4d-118.4090079

Awesome!

I'm pleased about it, too. After 35 years, I still miss the ol' bird.

I'm sure that's an awesome feeling!

awsom he seems a lot less nervis now

So cool is right!

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth..."

And into the sky he goes! Pretty cool finally seeing chucky taking the stick by himself, now that just leaves that pesky landing... :)

And he's up! He may be in the second half of the class to get airborne, but -somebody- has to be. We can't all be above average.

just a stepping stone. wait till he tries for his first seaplane license...

(smirks) A Virgin no more... though instead of Buster Hymen we will call this Buster Airmen?

That's intentional. I often omit the instrument panel and the rest of the controls if they're going to interfere with the view. The instrument panel would block 2/3 of the view. Even if I omitted that and still drew the horizontal part of the control stick, it would appear as this big grey bar extending into the lower middle of the panel. I don't have any formula for how and when I include or exclude them, I just go by what ever I think looks good when I'm doing the pencil drawings.

I've never done anything close to this, but I can imagine the sensation of Chucky's fear turning into exhilaration.

Way to go, Chucky! Glad you remembered your seat belt =0)

He's so cute! These pages are all well-crafted. Great job!

Thanks! Just started work on the next one.

Let me guess, on final approach, Chucky's plane is hit with a strong gusting crosswind, but after all that practice in adverse weather conditions, he lands his plane like a pro.

"Like a pro" probably wouldn't be the best description, but the plane would still be usable afterwards.

Like my flight instructor once told me. "Any landing from which you can walk away is a good landing, but any landing which leaves the aircraft in good flying condition is a FANTASTIC landing!"

I heard that one too, I think that's the best and probably most accurate saying. Especially since all of us have put that to the test multiple times as students.

Hail CowCow!!!

Chucky Lindbergh

Did they cut your shirt tail off when you got back? My instructor did that to all of his students after they had their first solo. He would write your name on it and hang it on the wall.

He didn't. I'm not sure why. In fact I wasn't aware of that tradition until after I soloed. I do remember a few cut up T-shirts in the FBO I'd been renting the planes from though.