Joe Oliva

• Personal home page: http://www.Jetpix.com

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/bboard postings

• July 25, 2003: You will need 10 hours of dual instruction in a complex airplane to be eligible for the checkride.
• October 13, 2003: "It doesn't have a moving-map GPS or an autopilot. There is no way that I would take it into the clouds without a very experienced copilot"
• January 13, 2004: The Short Answer is flying is as safe as you want to make it...

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• January 8, 2002, on Plastic Airplanes:

  Glad to hear your learning to fly. In addition to my aviation photography pursuits (www.Jetpix.com), I am also a 4,000 hr Airline Transport Rated pilot, Gold Seal Flight Instructor, and FAA Aviation Safety Counselor. If you ever have any questions that you may want a second opinion on, please don't hesitate to ask. Also, thanks for quoting my friend, Mary Shafer. She's helped me out a lot with some SR-71 photo work. Mary is a wonderful friend, and great admirer of my work. Anyway, the gist of my post. have you considered the purchase of a NEW Cessna 172 or 182? Cessna began turning them out again a few years ago. I think you'd like the new models. Plus unlike the Cirrus or the Diamond, the windows OPEN, which make them good, inexpensive platforms for aerial photography. I've been shooting from them for over 10 years. and the wing strut is not difficult to work around at all. Two things I like about 172s: they can fly and land pretty slowly without power (think forced landing), and...