GyroDoug
10-27-2008, 10:01 PM
Dear Rotary Flight Enthusiast,
Time marches on, and each month I get a month older, but the real question I keep asking myself is; Am I any closer to being able to live my dream and fly my very own aircraft? Some months are pretty tough to find anything I have done to solidly move my dream a little closer to reality and other months are pretty exciting with several events that I can look at and use to measure my progress. Lately I have been making some marked progress and spending several hours a week in the pursuit of my dream. What an incredible feeling it is!!!! I still have all the other things vying for my time and still have the obstacles and challenges that regularly pop up and try to derail my efforts, but when I am moving forward, all those challenges just don't seem near as hard. Anyway I wanted to share with you all how exciting it is when you can honestly feel like you are doing what you can to accomplish a goal that is important to you.
Next Month (Nov.) we will be meeting the first Saturday of the month which happens to be this coming Saturday. So our next meeting will soon be here. I will be sending out our newsletter tomorrow morning so everyone should get it a few days before the meeting. We thought that would be a good reminder to everyone. I know everyone has busy lives and many things demanding your time, but I have also talked to each of you and know that each of you have some dreams and goals that pertain to Rotary Winged flight. I want to see you achieve your dreams because I know how much joy and satisfaction I feel when I feel I am on my way towards achieving my goals. I spent years wanting to fly and feeling like I didn't have the money and so I did little but read about it and dream of it. But I have looked at what happened in my life and I realize that when my dream got big enough, I found a way to make it happen. You can too. It may not happen exactly the way you expected it to or when or how you expected, but if you can turn you subconscious mind loose and let it go to work, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.
I challenge each of you to make a commitment to spend a little time each week, doing something to further your dreams. I encourage you to make a commitment to come to more of our meetings. I realize you won't be able to make every one. But if it is important to you, you could make most of them. Let's each support and encourage one another and together we can all achieve what is most important to each of us. Don't look at involvement in our organization as just one more thing that is clamoring for your time, but look at it as something you can do for your self. Something that you deserve and it's time you started rewarding yourself with something that brings you joy. Life is short and none of us have any guarantees of how long we are going to be here. Don't go out with your song still in your heart, unsung and unlived. Go after life with all the gusto you are capable of. Go after your dream of flight, and if you are heading the same direction we are, come and join us and find camaraderie and support and friendship with people you dare to dream like you do. Aviators are a special kind of person, and not everyone wants to be up in the sky looking down like a bird does. But I do and if you do too, come join me this coming weekend.
We will be meeting at the Airgyro hangar on Sat. (Nov. 1st) at 10 AM. First there will be a presentation on what it takes to get your pilot's license (or sport pilots license, if that's what you prefer) and get the training you need to safely fly in your own chosen aircraft, then I have a new video that I want to share with everyone. I promise you will love it. This will be our last meeting for the year so come and join us.
We'll see you there,
(Gyro Doug)
Doug Barker
Utah Rotorcraft Association
Time marches on, and each month I get a month older, but the real question I keep asking myself is; Am I any closer to being able to live my dream and fly my very own aircraft? Some months are pretty tough to find anything I have done to solidly move my dream a little closer to reality and other months are pretty exciting with several events that I can look at and use to measure my progress. Lately I have been making some marked progress and spending several hours a week in the pursuit of my dream. What an incredible feeling it is!!!! I still have all the other things vying for my time and still have the obstacles and challenges that regularly pop up and try to derail my efforts, but when I am moving forward, all those challenges just don't seem near as hard. Anyway I wanted to share with you all how exciting it is when you can honestly feel like you are doing what you can to accomplish a goal that is important to you.
Next Month (Nov.) we will be meeting the first Saturday of the month which happens to be this coming Saturday. So our next meeting will soon be here. I will be sending out our newsletter tomorrow morning so everyone should get it a few days before the meeting. We thought that would be a good reminder to everyone. I know everyone has busy lives and many things demanding your time, but I have also talked to each of you and know that each of you have some dreams and goals that pertain to Rotary Winged flight. I want to see you achieve your dreams because I know how much joy and satisfaction I feel when I feel I am on my way towards achieving my goals. I spent years wanting to fly and feeling like I didn't have the money and so I did little but read about it and dream of it. But I have looked at what happened in my life and I realize that when my dream got big enough, I found a way to make it happen. You can too. It may not happen exactly the way you expected it to or when or how you expected, but if you can turn you subconscious mind loose and let it go to work, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.
I challenge each of you to make a commitment to spend a little time each week, doing something to further your dreams. I encourage you to make a commitment to come to more of our meetings. I realize you won't be able to make every one. But if it is important to you, you could make most of them. Let's each support and encourage one another and together we can all achieve what is most important to each of us. Don't look at involvement in our organization as just one more thing that is clamoring for your time, but look at it as something you can do for your self. Something that you deserve and it's time you started rewarding yourself with something that brings you joy. Life is short and none of us have any guarantees of how long we are going to be here. Don't go out with your song still in your heart, unsung and unlived. Go after life with all the gusto you are capable of. Go after your dream of flight, and if you are heading the same direction we are, come and join us and find camaraderie and support and friendship with people you dare to dream like you do. Aviators are a special kind of person, and not everyone wants to be up in the sky looking down like a bird does. But I do and if you do too, come join me this coming weekend.
We will be meeting at the Airgyro hangar on Sat. (Nov. 1st) at 10 AM. First there will be a presentation on what it takes to get your pilot's license (or sport pilots license, if that's what you prefer) and get the training you need to safely fly in your own chosen aircraft, then I have a new video that I want to share with everyone. I promise you will love it. This will be our last meeting for the year so come and join us.
We'll see you there,
(Gyro Doug)
Doug Barker
Utah Rotorcraft Association