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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hodrod" data-source="post: 4003910" data-attributes="member: 47277"><p>My father was in the army air corp in WW11.....he's favorite hobby was flying....he purchased his first plane when I was around 5 or 6 years old....I was the only member of our family that didn't get air sick so I got a lot of time flying with him....its some of my best memories of our time together.....over the years he owned 4 cessna aircraft (a 150,172,175,177) , a piper cub and a stitts acrobatic.....(a stitts not a pitts) ....when I was 16 years old I started taking flying lessons and did my first solo flight later that year...I've never owned a plane but remember dad saying it was an expensive hobby. You had insurance, the yearly annual, hanger rental, repairs from time to time and every once and a while he had to get a major overhaul on an engine which was the biggest cost next to the purchase of the plane. Flying is one of the best hobbies that I can think of....</p></blockquote><p></p>