Oshkosh is finally only a week away. I have been preparing for Airventure 2011 ever since Airventure 2010 was over! I am sure these last 7 days of waiting will be the longest week of my life. I have so much to still prepare for the trip including making my tshirt/tshirts and getting all my […]
Category: Flight Training
Pictures for Airventure 2011
Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has finally arrived. (drum roll) (cymbal) I am ordering a new camera lens!!!! With Airventure 2011 at Oshkosh rounding the corner, I figured it would be no better time to splurge and buy the “aviation lens” or so its called. I have been wanting this lens to put on my camera body for […]
July Festivities (Oshkosh Included)
As you can tell I havent posted in a few days. I thought instead of writing a few short entries about a couple flight here and there, I would just combine them into one post. So bare with me if this is a bit long. Lately, I have had multiple opportunities to fly, takes lessons, […]
Are you a plain cheesecake pilot?
What do all of these things in the title represent? They are things that I have yet to do. Other than the 2 hours I have in a Piper Cub (tail wheel), I have never been in a helicopter, never done anything more than a stall in an airplane, and haven’t gotten a tail wheel […]
GPS Approaches
Yesterday I practiced GPS approaches into a class charlie airport. Of course as you well know it was on the simulator, but it was still fun none the less. Nothing to exciting happened. I was able to do the approaches pretty well and felt accomplished after I did 2 or 3 of them. It wont […]
Circling approach!
Today I had a lesson in the Red Bird Simulator (whats new) and we went to a different airport other than my home airport. This provided for new approaches to learn, new courses to enter, and new frequencys to bother with. As usual we did a couple ILS approaches and then proceeded to do a […]
Slowly but Surely
Although I have a flight lesson tomorrow, the instrument rating training isn’t going as quick as I would like it to. Hopefully my instructor will be more available soon. Its sad to see my flight school slowly going down the toilet. I don’t blame my instructor for my slow training, I blame the amount of instructors at the school. […]
Going back, back, back in time
Today I was looking at my Youtube Channel and was so amazed to watch the short video about “A day in a Life: A Student Pilot” that I had made in 2009. It was pretty funny and enjoyable to watch how I did things early on in my flight training. Now that I am a private pilot […]
100 posts later, and I am still here!
Today is a bit of a landmark not only for me but this blog as well! 100 posts ago I began a journey to provide a little insight to how the world of aviation was, how its operated, and the passion that drives a student pilot to become more than just a pilot. In the blogging world 100 posts is […]
Oil, Oil, and more Oil
Today I flew the flight schools airplane over to an airport about 10 minutes away to get its oiled changed. What a day it was to fly today, on the way there it was so smooth and wind was calm making landing a breeze. For not being in the saddle for a month or so […]