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…
Yesterday’s class (instrument procedures) was all about NDB/ADF and VORs. Specifically I learned how to intercept an NDB track and fly it inbound or out. Also learned about VORs and how to track radials. I spent some time scouring the net trying to find a good NDB/VOR simulator that I can play with. I have…
School started up again for me yesterday for this semester. An interesting topic was brought up during the lesson… which direction should you slip. I was always taught to point the ailerons into the wind. That is, if the wind is coming from the right, apply left rudder and right ailerons. However my teacher suggested…
I came across this clip at liveatc.net. It is from the Toronto Centre (CZYZ) feed. I couldn’t help but chuckle at the controllers misfourtune. Listen to the clip!