My Multi-Engine flight test is being booked for May 28th! Had a flight in the Seminole last night, practiced circuit work. I was having a tough time of keeping the airplane lined up with the centre line, I got that all sorted out yesterday. Over the course of the lesson, the active runway switched twice,…
Todays lesson involved some more upper air work. Today we headed to the east to the Claremont Training Area. As previously mentioned, this training area has its own frequency (I’m too lazy to dig up the old blog entry). This frequency is not noted on any charts (VTA or VNC). You have to dig into…
There has been talk in the news recently of commercial aircraft reducing their speeds in order to save on fuel costs. Over the course of a year the savings can be in the million of dollars. As the costs of fuel rises, everyone from commercial airlines to the GA pilot is looking for ways to…
I’ve flown more in the past 21 days, than I have in this past Janurary, February, and March! This past week especially was a lot of flying. Mainly due to the perfect weather. I’m 1 lesson away from doing my multi-test. Just have to tackle some circuit work, performance take-offs. I packed in three Seminole…
Does anyone have any information about the airport that used to be in King City? I heard someone make a position report “over the old king city airport” the other day and did a quick google search. The only thing that I can find was this wikimapia.org entry. Does anyone know the identifier, when it…
My goal is to get my CPL by the end of the summer. That said, I need to get on the ball and get organized. I sat down a while ago and figured out how many hours I need before I have the minimum required for the CPL test. It’s totally doable in the next…
What do you use your expired CFSs for? I think I’m going to use it to start my camp fires this summer..
I attended the “ground school” at Toronto Airways for their latest aircraft that has the G1000 avionics installed. This course is mandatory if you would like to get checked out in the aircraft. I would really like to take this new airplane on my commercial cross country to Sherbrooke, QC. Over the next coming weeks,…