Spoke to my FI today to work out plans for the next week or so. Weather today prevented any flying.. at the windsock the winds were gusting to 22 knots and even at 3000′ the FD was showing 30knots wind. Not to mention the ceiling was low. Annnnyyyways… I’m going to write my PPL written…
I haven’t been flying in over a week. It’s been a good break since I had a lot of things to take care of (I’m now a proud owner of my first mortgage). This weekend has been a good opportunity to do some more studying. I’ve been mainly focusing on Instrument Procedure stuff. Mainly holds….
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)…