Showing posts with label KFNT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KFNT. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026

A Nice Day For An Instrument Currency Flight

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Flying like shooting. It is a perishable skill. Instrument flying even more so. Instrument currency can also be a pain to maintain as it is ...
Sunday, June 01, 2025

Sunday Flyday - Instrument Currency Work

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Yesterday was our flying club's Wash 'n' Wax and General Membership Meeting. The planes were washed and waxed to a shine and the...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Saturday Flyday- Cold And Crisp Approaches

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This morning was cold but very clear out.  Winds at 110 degrees at 8-10 knots. So we would get to do Runway 9 approaches. Went to the airpor...
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Monday, December 09, 2024

Sunday Flyday

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The weather was finally decent enough to get out and go fly. Mr. B. flew in to Pontiac Airport and I got in his plane and we headed off to F...
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Sunday, July 07, 2024

Saturday Flyday - IFR Flying With Mr. B.

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This morning I got up and headed to the airport. I was going to fly the Archer, but I don't have my key back from when i dropped the pla...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 59 - A Pre-Checkride With Possibilities

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So I pre-flighted N8570F and got ready for today's lesson.  Wind was out of the West gusting at 290-320 around 13-20 knots. The problem ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 51 - Approaching Acceptable Approaches

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Overall I'd say the practice on my own has paid off. Approaches today were considered to be very good by Rocky, now I just need to fix a...
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Friday, May 13, 2022

Flying VFR Approach Practice On A Beautiful Day

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Headed to the airport today to do some solo approach practice.  No safety pilot so no foggles and no actually logging the approaches or inst...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Flying IFR - Now With A Safety Pilot!

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Did things differently today, and had fun doing it. No going to DCT, just to my flying club's hangar.  Luckily the hangar door opened th...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 52 - Finally It Actually Went Well

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 Today winds were out of 110, so Runway 9R and 9L would be used at Pontiac. Rocky stated we would do the VOR 18 circle to 9 at Flint and the...
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Friday, April 08, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 49 - Real IMC

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Got stuck with N1689H yet again.  Seat was f-ed up as usual low and liked to release backwards, mis-rigged with a neat left-turning tendency...
Friday, October 08, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 30 - An Interesting Diversion

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Today the weather was a little iffy. Kevin and I met prior to the pre-flight and went over it. Low clouds, rain, so yep, good IFR flying wea...
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Friday, September 24, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 27 - IFR Approaches Holds Partial Panel And Bumps

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So I had Sara as my instructor today. Sort of a mock Stage III checkride but I'm not Stage III yet. So we had N6288J. The sky while fina...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 22 - You Guessed It, More And Different Approaches

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A small change of pace this lesson. I got to the airport and did the preflight for N1689H.   I then met up with Kevin and he told me we woul...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 20 - More Approaches

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More approaches was the name of the game today. Took off with Nicholas as my instructor for today.  Nice guy.  We needed to top off the fron...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 19 - IMC Approaches

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Today the weather was pretty much Marginal VFR at best, which meant lots of real IFR time in the clouds for me. I was paired up with Reece a...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 15 - There, That's Better

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So for Lesson 15, I  dusted myself off from the fracas of Lesson 14 and then arrived early at DCT and pre-flighted the plane. I then met wit...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 10 - Approaches, Now With A Circle To Landing Feeling

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I met up with Kevin at N5337F this morning.  It was going to be a hot one, but only scattered clouds were forecast at 4-5,000 feet which was...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 9 - Some New Approaches

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So today was fly some more approaches day.  Instead of Kevin, I had Adam as my instructor, but Kevin had left him detailed instructions on w...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Flying IFR - Lesson 8- More Approaches

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Today the weather was nice and with the cloud layer at 4000 and lifting it was rather the opposite of yesterday. So I went to DCT and began ...
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