Category: Real World Instruction
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I was able to get back in the airplane today after nine-day layoff due to travel. It was great to get in a lesson, and I had a lot of fun doing more slow flight, steep turns, and stalls. My CFI has also been building up my “hood time,” which is flying with “foggles,” plastic…
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One of the best real world tools that I’ve used for my simulation work and my real world flight training has been ForeFlight, which is an electronic flight bag app that I run on my iPad. I use it to plan routes in PilotEdge, for VFR navigation and charts while flying the sim, and as a backup…
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… was a GREAT day to go flying! Clouds, some bumps, a little crosswind. A wonderful day for stalls, steep turns, and flying “under the hood” with Foggles to simulate IFR flight. And a nice landing to boot. Fun fun fun!
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One of the online resources I track as part of my flight training is Private Pilot Study, which uses Google+ hangouts to lead video conference briefings on different elements of pilotage. Tonight the topic is airspace, and it’s being led by Keith Smith, founder of PilotEdge and one of my personal web-aviation heroes. Time is…
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I’ve been told by several folks that early in my flight training I should fly both high- and low-wing aircraft so I could compare them and then settle on one for the remainder of my training. So today, after getting about six hours to date in a Cessna 172 (high-wing) I took a lesson in…
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Was another great day to go flying! Did a bunch of pattern work today. So thrilling to control the aircraft from taxi to touchdown!
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Today was my fourth real-world flight lesson, and it was a day of slow flight, stalls (power on, power off, and turning), and pattern work. In fact I did seven takeoffs and landing today across two different fields. Today was a great experience, but I would not characterize it as “fun,” and compared to earlier…
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Well, I have some news to share here, and it’s that I’ve started real-world instruction for my Private Pilot License. I suppose that building the sim was the nudge I needed to try something I’ve always wanted to do in real life. So far I’m three lessons in and having a fantastic time. I’ll post…
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