Showing posts with label Flight 101. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flight 101. Show all posts
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Flying Lesson #100 - A Rather Economical Lesson

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Lesson 100 started out most promisingly - I got there early and the winds were calm, visibility fine and it wasn't as cold as it has bee...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Flying Lesson #99 - Strong Winds Combined With A New Way Of Doing Things

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Well, Lesson #99 just kicked my tail. Well, the winds did anyways. Continuing on from our previous lesson of having me looking outside more...
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Saturday, February 04, 2017

Flying Lesson #98 - Flying After A Long Wait

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This morning was a beautiful one. There was a yellow ball in the sky that had been conspicuous by its absence for the past few weeks and on...
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Monday, January 09, 2017

Flying Lesson #97 - Maneuver Heaven

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Continuing the tale of sunk flying costs, I took off in N73455 with Bob and headed to the practice area. Once there we did slow flight, whi...
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Saturday, January 07, 2017

Flying Lesson #96 - Cold Flight

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So I arrived at KPTK and proceeded to do the preflight and scrape the frost of the leading edge of the wings, windshield etc. Winter flying...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Flying Lesson #95 - The Serious Pre-Checkride Program

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By the act of simply scheduling a solo I can make the weather absolutely sucky. Two cancelled days in sequence where I had booked to fly sol...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Flying Lesson #94 - Short Fields With A New Instructor

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For lunch I dropped by Flight 101 for a lesson. I had it scheduled with Ray as going to Crosswinds during the week is pretty much out and I...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Not Flying Lesson

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Last night with the snow coming down the TAF for Pontiac was predicting lousy weather for this morning - snow, rain, low viz so i halfway ex...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Flying Lesson #93 - Crosswinds in The Cold

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A rather large weather system is heading for Michigan and it seemed that everyone wanted to go flying this morning. I was flying with Ray an...
Saturday, December 03, 2016

Flying Lesson #92 - Recon of Diversionary Airfields

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Lesson 92 started as KPTK was humming with Operation Good Cheer. Operation Good Cheer is when volunteer pilots deliver gifts to children in...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Flying Lesson #91 - Short Field Landings Suck

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Yesterday at noon the weather was far to nice to eat lunch indoors. So I called and Ray and a plane was available and I got a lesson in. W...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Picking Up Ice In The Run-Up Area....

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Is nature's way of telling you you're not getting a flying lesson in this morning. The presence of ice forming on aircraft not rate...
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Friday, November 18, 2016

Flying Lesson #90 - Gusting Winds Of November

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Since I already had a lesson booked with Ray at Flight 101 I figured I'd go with it. This would be a long lunch type lesson with some p...
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Monday, November 07, 2016

Flying Lesson #88 - Leaping To Lapeer, Roamin To Romeo

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Yesterday afternoon, being a beautiful day without a cloud in the sky and a light crosswind we headed to Lapeer to do some landings. As it...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Flying Lesson #88 - The Long And The Short Of It

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First we flew northeast over Romeo and then on to a new airport. Marine City Airport, 76G is on the shores of Lake St. Clair, right near...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Flying Lessons #86 and #87 More Crosswind Practice

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Yesterday the winds were blowing from around 110-180 gusting away from 9-1 or so. This meant it was Runway 9L time and lost of fun with the...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Flying Lesson #85 - Getting Back To Standards - Good Landings In Gusty Winds

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Today was marginal VFR with 2,400 foot ceilings or so and gusting winds. When I was scheduled to fly the winds were forecast to be (and in ...
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Private Pilot Oral Exam Prep With A Fellow Student

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The Oral Exam takes place before the flying portion of the Private Pilot test and it's apparently become quite involved and apparently g...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Flying Lesson #84 - Crosswinds And Positive Improvement

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Ray was back and the weather was suitable for flying but with a 10-12 knot direct crosswind. Yep, time for crosswind landing practice. Unf...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Flying Lesson #83 - Crosswind Craziness

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Today, while a nice day weather-wise, had a wind that decided to make life difficult with a gusting crosswind. The wind was gusting from 10...