2019 is my first experience of learn to fly with microlight aircraft, I was so grateful for able to find flying club here in my town called Jogja Flying Club or JFC. When 9 years ago I saw my mentor flying with his own plane of Columbia 350 I think that he is truly rich guy but nowadays I could say that owning a plane is not about how rich you are but this is about choice, just same as when you choose to own a car or not.
I stumbled on youtube or any social media platform about how could I learn to fly with my personal plane, than I found few names of celebrity even ordinary people who also own a Cirrus SR20, Cessna 172 till Beechcraft Bonanza and fly their own plane around the globe. When only celebrity own those plane I could think that we must as rich as them but when I saw ordinary people just like you and me own a plane than I think this gonna be achievable.
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Challenge to Contact Jogja Flying Club at the First Time
This flying club is just growing their system cause few years ago all the member is too senior so nobody able to reach millennial member by using internet or social media. Till someone known as Fashln, Yudha, and Yoga organize this club better by upload their activities on Instagram so there will be more people to see and come to the hangar to learn to fly .
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Since there is no specific personwho handle of email or whatsapp chat reading than if you contact JFC through Instagran than you need few hours to reply, surely I hope this club is getting bigger and got someone who gonna take care of it. When someday you visit my town and wanna learn to fly than you can send a message on Instagram and wait fo rthe reply. Generally there are few options about learn to fly in Jogja Flying Club such as:
- Joy Flight – with Trike or Fixed Wing aircraft cost $30 to $100 depend on type of microlight that you choose and duration of fly
- Introducing of Left Seat – If you want to know how is the feeling for being a captain than you must seat on the left, so no matter what aircraft that you choose, from the tiny microlight till airbus than captain is always on the left. Here in this program the instructor will teach you how to learn to fly in a captain seat position that cost around $200
- Private Coaching of 20 Hours Flight – In more specific this the program for someone who really concern and want to learn deeper to be a pilot. You gonna learn from A to Z as a basic knowledge about flying a microlight aircraft for 20 hours till you personally able to fly solo. This program will cost around $2800 to $3500
My First Experience of Joy Flight Program with a Sky Ranger Nynja in 4000 Feet
God blessed me so great till I got a fast answer about my joy flight schedule on Saturday morning and I’m so excited so to do this dream fly experience. I ride my scooter out of home at 6 am and go to Adisucipto Airport where Jogja Flying Club hangar located, I know that I will pass the Air Force gate so I make sure to wear long trousers and shoes as well. My instructor today is Yudha a truly humble guy who telling me so much information about how to fly with a microlight aircraft.
Yudha’s father own a travel ticket agent and his mom’s is teaching on an airlines crew school till his family decide to buy a small airplane of Sky Ranger Nynja, and this my plane today! Hangar is open and I saw paradise inside it, there are 15 to 18 small aircraft parked in this hangar, from the hang gliding aircraft, trikes, and few of fixed wing of Sky Ranger, Aquilla, and Zenith 750.
Fly in this school take you into high discipline procedure, so before you fly you must check your plane’s engine, oil, fuel, wings and all the aircraft’s body till the most exciting moment is checking your runway, yeaaaah! this is that couldn’t happen if you fly with commercial aircraft cause today I ride a big pick up scooter and go to the grass runway and check surrounding. If I found some big rocks or any metal pole of aircraft’s parts than I take them out from my runway.
Today I wanna fly to Kaliurang highland area directly from Adisucipto Airport and the time is up!
Yudha show me to turn the engine on for little while and he ask me to seat in on the right just to prepare ans show me some information about flying. The Sky Ranger is starting moving on taxi way and we just waiting for our turn to head up to the sky. I put my headphone so I can hear what Yudha talk to the Airport Tower and it was so cool. The first time of Yudha take the engine throttle up is also exciting moment and yeah this tiny aircraft is start to run on a grass runway and head up to 2000 feet.
Since I’m gonna fly to highland than I got some turbulence (which is good to feel it) cause there are few valleys and hills that I passing by and Yudha ask the tower so we can head up more into 4000 feet, actually I wondering to get a cloud surfing experience but this morning sky is so clear so no cloud at all.
I saw the beautiful scenery of Merapi volcano mount from 4000 feet and truly amazing, and what next is truly blown my mind away.
Yudha know me have a dream to learn to fly and wanna take Nina and all my kids to fly together on my dream Cirrus SF50 so when we want to come back to Adisucipto airport Yudha let me drive his Sky Ranger….OMG this is what I want to do! Confuse, nervous and afraid for sure but my desire is bigger than it so I hold the stick and drive this amazing Sky Ranger back to airport and decrease the altitude from 4000 into 2000 feet. When I catch up at 2000 feet than I let Yudha hold the stick and bring us back town down at the main runway of Adisucipto airport/
It was truly great experience that I had this morning and surely I suggest you to learn to fly when you want to see this world with other perspective. I post my video below and hope you got inspire with this,