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Month: October 2016

  • The PilotEdge CAT-04 Rating

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    Yesterday I did the fourth PilotEdge Communication and Airspace Training rating flight, which is a Class D towered field (KSBP) to a Class D towered field (KSMX) with no ATC services in between: Here’s the description from the PE briefing page, but the short story is that you: Get the weather at San Luis via…

  • The Benefits Of Having A Flight Simulator In Your Basement

    And I don’t just mean the powerful effect it has on women. Today my real-world flight lessons cancelled for low ceilings. I used to stress about that, but now I know it’s just part of the process. But my routine for flight training is solid enough now that I just went down to the basement,…

  • Today’s Real World Lesson: Pattern Work And Some Words That Were Great To Hear

    Today’s Real World Lesson: Pattern Work And Some Words That Were Great To Hear

    Today was flight lesson #18, and we used it to do more pattern work, spiced up with no-flaps landings (2), no-power landings (2), a short-field take off, and a soft-field take off. All of this was interesting and fun to fly, and I flew well. Well enough that when taxing back to the ramp at…

  • The South Bend GA Freight Train

    The South Bend GA Freight Train

    I’m lucky enough to be in South Bend Indiana this weekend to see the Notre Dame Stanford game with one of my very best friends. One of the amazing things that happens here on game day is watching South Bend Regional Airport turn into one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country. I…

  • Las Vegas, Baby

    A viewer request flight from North Las Vegas to Hoover Dam, with a buzz of the Las Vegas Strip at night. Not by the regs by any means, but fun. Thanks for watching! Details: – Prepar3D v 3.4.9 – ORBX OpenLC NA, SoCal, Vector, Trees – Taburet NA night lighting – A2A Cessna 182

  • I Need To Start Making Videos Like This

  • The PilotEdge CAT-03 Rating

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    The PilotEdge Communication and Airspace Training ratings continue, this time with the CAT-03, which is three laps of the pattern at San Luis Obispo. I actually flew this twice. I forgot to hook up the mic to the GoPro in the first iteration, so I flew it again the next day to re-record the video. That…

  • Today’s Real-World Lesson: More Pattern Work

    A really great lesson today in my real-world flight training. We had wonderful weather, cool and clear and sunny with winds around six knots, and we used it to do more pattern work. This included normal landings, two no-flap landings, and two power-off landings (which are the truncated approaches in the below image), as well…

  • A2A PA28 Cherokee FIP Gauges

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    Tom Tsui’s excellent set of Saitek FIP gauges continues to grow, now with a set for the A2A PA28-180 Cherokee. This is the sim aircraft I use when I’m practicing for my real-world flight training, which I do in a PA 28-161 (and the 180 is plenty close for me). While I most of Tom’s…

  • The PilotEdge CAT-2 Rating

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    The CAT-2 rating on PilotEdge, which is a flight from a non-towered (New Cuyana) to a towered (San Luis, a Class Delta) field. And this time we have fun with temporary lost comms! Thanks for watching.