I wont be flying at all this week and my flight on Sunday was canceled because of poor weather. So this means that it’s study week. I have a mid-term in my Basic Aircraft Systems class on Thursday. Plus I need to get ready for the pre-flight test with my FI on Monday. I want…
Last nights class was interesting. We had some extra time left over so the teacher pulled out his training CD-ROMs for the 747-400 and we went through the hydraulic and landing gear systems. The first thing that I noticed was the “user interface” with the plane systems. It was a mix of digital (EICAS) and…
I originally was going to go on a cross country flight on Sunday… but decided against it in favour of some practice instead. I headed out the Claremont training area to practice some forced approaches. This area is better than the north (cooks bay/Keswick) because it has more fields to choose from (and it’s not…
I know I should be studying … but I have having a hard time trying to find motivation on a Friday night. The weather looks like it is going to hold up for my x-country on Sunday. If this high pressure system stays over Ontario for the entire day it will be a great smooth…
The weather couldn’t have been more perfect for flying this morning. The sky was mostly clear and the air was smooooooooooth. Wind was calm. Today was a solo flight to practice some air work (stalls, steep turns, forced and precautionary landings) to bring them inside flight test tolerances. I was having to major issues: 1….
I elected to make today’s lesson a ground briefing to go over some things that will happen during the flight test. I spent 0.8 hours going over some questions that I had about how the flight test is going to go. After that I wrote the “mock exam”. Here is how the next couple of…
I’ve come down with a cold that hit me pretty hard today. I was supposed to go on a solo flight today to prep for my pre-test flight on Saturday. That didn’t happen. So instead I spent the day studying for the PPL written test and bummed around in MS Flight Sim. I finally updated…
I am going to illustrate how to intercept a NDB track using MS Flight Simulator 2004 in a perfect world (no wind to worry about). There are certain times that you will need to track to a NDB at a particular heading. This is mainly used in two situations: 1. You are using NDB (LF/MF)…
A buddy of mine told me today that a squatter had registered flywithblake.com. I’m not sure if I should feel honoured (that my site is large enough for a squatter to care) or angry. Don’t worry, I wont be buying flywithblake.com for any amount of money!
It’s been a busy few weeks, nontheless my training is progressing nicely. My goal of getting my license at the end of the month might be pushed back a few weeks mainly due to weather. However I think that I can get the written portion complete and my flight portion at least booked before September…