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Seeing Flying with Fresh Eyes

Standing in front of our Cessna 340 we used while teaching weekend ground schools. John King
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Key Takeaways:

  • Personal flying offers profound freedom, enabling unique and broadening travel experiences to chosen destinations on one's own schedule.
  • Recent experiences with commercial airlines highlighted significant stress, time inefficiencies, and inconvenience due to airport logistics, security, and crowds.
  • Despite potential cost or speed advantages of commercial flights, the author primarily values private flying for the inherent enjoyment, challenge, and deeply rewarding experience of piloting their own aircraft.
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There was a lot of blood in the water as we flew over the bowhead whale being harvested for the sustenance of the native Inupiat community of Barrow, Alaska. It was a thought-provoking and broadening experience of the type we found we were having regularly after we began flying our own airplane for transportation.

John King

John King started King Schools Inc., with his wife, Martha, in a spare bedroom of their home. Today, the school operates out of a dedicated complex in San Diego, California, that includes a video and software production facility. John and Martha have shared flying and teaching aviation for more than 50 years.

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