Flair Update

Excellent effort and congratulations! Go fly a couple VFR day cross country flights solo to build your self sufficiency. Or maybe take a friend. But not a pilot or CFI. Sit down with a good CFII and map out a plan to get to IFR. Use a syllabus. It's easy to modify most any syllabus to turn the lessons into XC IFR dual lessons; this will give you great training/experience. We are moving into the time of year when it's easy to fly at night w/o staying up until midnight. You'll get better IFR training at night than in the day time. IFR and Commercial both require 50 hours of XC greater than 50NM, but the details are different. This is why it's important to work out a plan early with a good CFI. Be sure to include the Commercial requirements while knocking out the 50 hours for IFR. If you have CFI in your sights, consider eventually doing ASEL Commercial maneuvers in the right seat and saving a few bucks. When you finish IFR, consider doing initial Commercial and CFI in a glider. It 1) breaks the habit of staring at the gauges, 2) counts towards 250, and 3) makes the ASEL counterparts into additional ratings - much simpler; I did ASEL Commercial and CFI on the same day as add on ratings.