Articles Archive for January 2006
Interesting Things, Training »
I came across this image of how the ramp guys at Jetsgo used to tag other employees baggage. This particular group of people were on their way down to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Someone in the group commented: “U.S. customs took a photo of the 10 of us with our bags. they never saw anything to that extent. you should have seen the looks on peoples face when we were walking through the airport like that.”
I think the guy that attached his stuff to the pylon is hilarious!!
Training »
If the weather is nice, I hope to have 25 hours of flying done by the end of February. I’m not 100% sure (i’m going to ask my FI tonight) but I think I can start flying Solo at around 25 hours.
Days I plan on flying:
1/15/2006 12:00 - 14:00
1/22/2006 12:00 - 14:00
1/24/2006 14:00 - 16:00
2/4/2006 15:00 – 17:00
2/5/2006 09:00 – 11:00
2/6/2006 10:00 – 12:00
2/11/2006 12:00 – 14:00
2/12/2006 12:00 – 14:00
2/13/2006 09:00 – 11:00
2/18/2006 14:00 – 16:00
2/19/2006 10:00 – 12:00
2/20/2006 10:00 – 12:00
2/26/2006 12:00 – 14:00
2/27/2006 09:00 – 11:00
My Meterology teacher used to work …
Training »
I spent a few hours on Tuesday booking flight time with the on line scheduling software. I decided to take a peek again on Thursday and noticed that there was an opening for today. I booked it and prayed that the weather would be nice.
I got up this morning to a blue sky! The first one in probably 2 weeks. Called dispatch and the lesson was still on – awesome!
Today was going to be the same stuff we did in the sim, but in real life. I did the walk …
Training »
I was a little nervous before arriving at the airport but had some time to relax as I arrived early.
The lesson was structured in two parts, first was the ground briefing where we went over some of the basics. Talking about the instruments, parts of the plane, and how to detect and fix carb icing. Other items we covered were:
- How to find that “picture” for a specific attitude in the plane. Whether it be straight and level or a banked turn. All of your references are “visual” (during VFR …
