"300,000! Small 2 million ...... I also have to rent a hangar, I forgot to think about this, it seems that we don't have the life to fly a plane! Hong Tao listened to this price, and his impulsive mind calmed down.

Hongtao can make up the money to buy the plane, but I am afraid that the price in the United States will have to be doubled when it is used in China. But the price is not the point, where to rent a hangar and carry out daily maintenance is the point. The airplane is not like a car, you can put it at your doorstep, you can drive it at any time, although this means of transportation is fast, but you have to take off and land at the airport.

Hong Tao felt that those large and small airports in Beijing might not give face, so he let himself park the plane there, as for the club-like private airport, Hong Tao had never heard of it, although it could not be said that there was none, but it was by no means an ordinary person could enter, and he was at most a slightly richer ordinary person.

"By the way, Carl, do you think a foreigner like me can learn to fly an airplane in the United States?" Hong Tao quickly changed his goal, since he can't afford to play with an airplane, he should be able to try it if he learns an airplane license, as for whether he can drive it after learning, that's a matter of the future, as the saying goes, art doesn't pressure you! Maybe I'll use it sometime.

"Of course you can learn, it's very easy, several of my foreign friends have already learned, just in New York, I helped them find a training school, if you want to learn, you can ask Paul to borrow a plane, he should be willing to lend it to you, but unfortunately he won't lend it to me!" Carl began to complain about his uncle again as he spoke.

"Then you tell me about the general process and the procedures that need to be handled, I will return to China after this competition, and I have just completed all the procedures." Hong Tao listened to what Carl said was quite reliable, and quickly took out the newly bought mobile phone, and adjusted the notepad to record it.

"You're going to have to find a flight school first, there's one on Long Island, and I can introduce you to a good one. Their flight instructors are retired from the Navy and Air Force, and the fees are a little higher, but it's not a problem for you! Once you've found a school, they'll show you a flight experience of both fixed-wing and rotorcraft, and you'll be able to take a training course on one of them. You can choose both, but I don't think it's fun to fly a gyroplane, it depends on your personal preferences. Karl finished looking at Hong Tao.

"Oh yes, gyroplanes aren't interesting. I'll just learn this fixed-wing, please continue! Hong Tao quickly affirmed Carl's suggestion, in fact, he thought it was good to learn how to fly a helicopter.

"Then you take the flight school recommendation letter and the course description to go to the TranspotationSecurity Administration, TSA (National Transportation Security Administration) AlienFlightStudentProgramm (foreign flight cadet) program to do a threat assessment, this assessment is very simple, like you with a temporary green card will definitely be able to pass. This is just to prevent another tragedy like 911, and it is said that those people learned to fly airplanes in driving schools in the United States, and maybe they were classmates with Paul! You say, don't you? Hey, hey, hey. "Carl only has bad things. I can't forget Uncle Paul.

"Let's get down to business first, Paul's problem, we'll go back to New York and investigate it......" Hong Tao had no choice but to dilute the mud.

"After this assessment is passed, the TSA will ask you to go and take your fingerprints or something, which is a routine procedure. After that, you will need to see a doctor who is recognized by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). Do a comprehensive medical check-up, after which you will get a supporting document, valid for 2 years. ”

"Do you think my body can get through? I had stitches in my head as a child, and bug teeth! Hong Tao heard that he also had a physical examination. I feel a little bottomless, according to the domestic pilot enrollment conditions, he is almost all over the body.

"What are bug teeth?" Carl didn't understand Hong Tao's Chinese English.

"Tooth decay."

"What does this have to do with flying a plane? We're not flying Navy fighters. It's not to fly the space shuttle, this physical examination is just to check if you have any major diseases, and the doctor will ask you to go skydiving first to prove that you don't have a fear of heights, and you can give him the skydiving certificate. You don't have to worry about your body at all, even if you are disabled, you can pass it, as long as you have a suitable prosthesis. Karl patted Hong Tao on the shoulder.

"Okay then, and then what?" Hong Tao was deeply skeptical of Carl's statement, and he felt that it was a bit exaggerated to say that this kind of small plane had low physical requirements, and to say that people with disabilities could also learn to pilot. However, he didn't want to raise the bar with Carl at this time and beg others to solve his doubts, so he had to tolerate the other party's bragging, which was the right of others.

"Then you can take these certificates to the flight school to sign up and pay the fee, they will arrange theory classes and practical classes for you, you can learn according to the curriculum, and finally pass the exam, you can get a pilot license, but this is a light aircraft license, not all planes you can drive, you don't want to fly a 767, right? Hahahahaha...... "Carl thinks he's humorous.

"How much time will it take? How much does it cost to get a license from registration to licensing? Hong Tao ignored the dead glass, and continued to ask, he had to figure out every detail, and then decide whether he really wanted to learn.

"I've been studying for more than 3 months, and the average flight school will tell you that you can take the test after flying for 35 hours, don't believe them, that's the minimum standard of the AFF, and few people can complete all the courses in such a short time, so you may need 50 hours or 70 hours to pass. It is said that Paul studied for more than 90 hours before he was just allowed to fly solo, and of course you are better than him, so don't worry, you will succeed! Carl patted Hong Tao on the shoulder again, like a senior encouraging his junior.

"What about the price?" Hong Tao still has to endure it.

"If you can't find a plane to practice, it will cost about $12,000, which is directly proportional to the time you fly, and I have a friend who only took more than 2 months and spent more than $9,000 to pass." Carl shrugged, feeling that money wasn't the point.

"Then I'm going to stay in the U.S. for 2 months?" Hong Tao felt that he must be the kind of person who learned in 2 months, and he learned very quickly about hand-brain linkage.

"Don't go to school in this season, it's cold! There is no air conditioning in the plane, the heat of the engine will not help you much, and the coach will be grounded in the snowy weather, which will delay you for a long time, you might as well come back next spring to study, and you are not going to come to the FLW competition next year? As soon as Carl heard that Hong Tao really wanted to learn, he quickly stopped him.

"That's right, I'll go back and think about it!" Hong Tao was right when he heard it, not to mention learning to fly the plane, he hadn't thought about whether to come to the United States to compete again next year, come on, he would have to spend most of his time in the United States on and off. If you don't come, it's really useless if you don't take hundreds of thousands of bonuses!

After chatting along the way, Karl drove the little plane as fast as it took to land at Hobart's civilian airport in less than four hours, more than 30 minutes before Paul and the others.

Just when he was out of the airport, Hong Tao encountered a new thing, he had to go through the entry inspection when traveling in Australia, and the inspection was very careful, all the animals and plants that do not belong to Tasmania and their products could not enter the customs, which was more ruthless than the entry inspection. In this way, the boomerang that Hong Tao bought on the Great Ocean Road was detained, because it was made of wood.

"It's one of Australia's purest states, and it's an island, so it's more afraid of biological invasions." Paul cleared Hong Tao's confusion.

"Next time I'll get a few fruit tree pest larvae from the Amazon and put them on for you! Let you check! Hong Tao's pillow full of sponge blocks was taken care of again, and the five small cloth bags inside were opened, and the sponge blocks were also poured out. With Hong Tao's rhetoric about cervical spondylosis, these sponge blocks were finally released, and Hong Tao was under the watchful eyes of several Australian customs officers, while filling sponge blocks in small cloth bags, he secretly made up his mind that he would not let these Australians have a good time.

A few minutes later, Hong Tao was pitted again, and the Vodafone phone card that Hong Tao bought in Sydney had no signal here, because there was no Vodafone Telecom transmission tower on Tower Island, and he needed to change the Telstra prepaid card here, and the result was 40 Australian dollars gone!

"You wait, Lao Tzu will come back! Next time I'll come with little bugs and eat up your forest! Crops! This way the cell phone signal is stronger! Hong Tao dragged his luggage out, and grabbed a stack of free maps from the front of the information desk to take away, anyway, there are 5 of them, and it is a fart to take a few more maps!

Tasmania is a state in Australia, located like the island of Taiwan in China, separated from the entire Australian mainland by a Bass Strait, and the city of Melbourne to the north of the strait. The whole island of Tasmania is slightly like a heart, the north side is relatively wide, the south side is slightly pointed, Hobart, as the capital of Tasmania, is located on the right side of the southern tip of Tasmania.

Judging from the map collected for free at the airport, the layout of Ta Island is very similar to that of mainland Australia, with only a few cities around the island, and the middle of the island is a temperate primeval forest with little inhabitation. Originally, the Australian mainland was sparsely populated enough, but compared with Tadao, it is still densely populated, and the total population of the city is less than 200,000, which is not as large as the least populated Mentougou District in Beijing.

In addition, this is the southernmost region of Australia, the relative latitude is about the same as Japan, and it is an island, so the temperature is relatively low, even in the midsummer season in December, the maximum temperature during the day is more than 20 degrees, a short dress is definitely not possible, and at night even a single clothes can not be worn, sweaters, thermal underwear, thin down jackets and so on have to be prepared.

This time, Paul didn't take everyone to the hotel, and after renting 4 SUV vehicles from the airport, he didn't even enter the city, and drove south along the B33 road on the east bank of the Derwent River into a sea of purple. (To be continued......)