▲ 5 r/flying

First Discovery Flight at 45

Been rewriting this post more than I'd care to admit. I've always to fly since discovery flight school in my first year of Uni but as a good, gullible and naive Asian kid who wanted to make his parents proud, I never followed thru.
Fast forward to 2016, I met a same age pilot in Koh Phi Phi who had started in his early 20's and now was exclusively doing SF/Singapore or SF/SE Asia routes making a buttload of money.

I thought then that being 35, I was far too late to start and never pursued it. Now I'm at a point in my life where I just want to "DO" things that make me happy you know?

I know I'll never get to be a wide body captain but beyond PPL, what has flying life been like for those that chose to get into it as a career later in your life? I can't afford my own bird & maintenance so even as a hobby, I could MAYBE only do 100hrs a year tops out of pocket.

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u/chyves — 1 day ago
▲ 36 r/tamiya

Back from Japan!

Super stocked! My first RC was a 1/10 scale nitro HPI RS4 chassis fully decked out. Was in Japan and couldn't resist this sweet deal, bought loads of hop ups for it as they were incredibly well priced. Its a project car for my nephew and I so nothing crazy but I do like the more refined things haha

For those wondering I got it at Joshin in DenDen Town Osaka.

I also got the opportunity to go to the Tamiya flagship in Ginza Tokyo and it was such a treat too!

u/chyves — 3 months ago

First off, thanks for convincing me to make the trip to Hitohira! Thank you for this group for now making me an addict. Haha

I picked up a gorgeous Makoto Kurosaki VG7 Damascus Santoku w/ ebony handle and a Hitohira Imojiya TH Damascus 120mm Petty with a Pakka Red handle.

Of course I had to get a custom Higonokami in brass.

But wait there's more! While in Osaka, I saw another post by a Redditor about Sakai Ichimonji Mitsuhide and met Brad who showed me around. I ended up getting one of their 165mm Chromax Santoku engraved in my buddy's name. This one met a lot to me because my buddy never does anything for himself, he is super selfless and his wife n kid come first so this was extra special for me to gift him something so gorgeous and engraved with his name! We were travelling as a group so it was amazing to gift it right after leaving the store 😊

u/chyves — 4 months ago