Archive for the ‘Flight Training’ Category
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
I just checked the calendar. Holy hell, it's December. I've been working 50 - 60 hours a week, so flying time has been not quite abundant, and writing time has been even more scarce.
I'm up to some 65 hours now, and am preparing for my check ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
So I took a flight yesterday, and on the way down to the airport (about an hour’s drive), I called my folks. They knew I was heading out, but I could tell were still having trouble imagining me flying a plane. I can’t blame them, as I still get that ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Flight time was nixed yesterday, partially due to my schedule, partially due to weather. It worked out for the best – even after I’d called my CFI to say “Hey, I don’t think I can make it” he said that an hour later it was whiteout conditions at the field. ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Flew the 152 out of Crest today. Got in just under an hour and a half. Worked entirely on pattern procedures. We left Crest, and went right over to Auburn, did 4 touch and goes there, then went to Renton, did two touch and goes, then back to Crest for ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
So it’s been a while since I’ve been able to write, and it’s been a while since I’d had a lesson. I’ve picked up the pace a little bit over the last few weeks, though. I had an impromptu lesson two weeks ago, a night flight around Crest Field, which ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Winter’s cold, wet, and in this instance snowy and stuck-at-home-because-of-the-snow –ey. I miss flying, and I miss flying kites when I can’t fly. I am, however, playing an inordinate amount of MS Flight Sim w/ Virtual ATC (networked – there’s real people on the other end) on my TV-Computer, which ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
After several months of intermittent studying, a recent weekend intensive (the last half of a Part61 ground school course), and loads and loads of practice testing, I took the written today. I'm pleased to be able to say that despite an awful lot of other crap going on in my ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Well, at long last (just from my own delay) I'm now a "certificated student pilot" with a 3rd class medical. Can anyone explain to me what the devil happened to "certified" in the aviation community? "Certificated" is a new word that I've never heard before I started flying.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Took a lesson this morning, even though I've wretched my back out so bad I'm walking with a cane (it's quite a sight). Aside from not being able to bend over during the preflight, or climb up and refuel after getting back down, I'm grateful I wasn't in so much ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
As I write this, I am sitting on a SouthWest Boeing 737 on a flight that's temporarily grounded, stranded on the Las Vegas taxiway. We were headed into Phoenix, and the FAA halted traffic between Vegas and Sky Harbour due to weather. Fortunately, the pilots made an announcement (as we ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Got .7 hrs today in a Cessna 172N. I got to the FBO at Crest Field half hour late after I put it into my calendar wrong (Smartphones rock, but don't account for human err). So I get there, chat with my CFI for a bit, as he's someone I've ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Couldn't get enough the first time around, so we went back for more. We started out fairly early, around 8 or 9 am (definitely early for me), but I was too excited to care. My wife was with me again, so she got some instruction by proxy, until about halfway ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Fantastic day. Woke up feeling excellent. Did some errands, the sun was shining, put the sunroof back as my wife and I were driving around, went to the library for some research stuff for her, went for a nice lunch at an indian place we'd never been, then ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I've been looking for a good home instruction set, to augment my flight training. I've found several out there, the main ones appearing to be King Schools, Jeppessen, and Sporty's. I watched several clips on YouTube from each school. A friend had the King series, and another ...
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