• PPL Written: Done!

    I wrote my PPL exam Friday morning and passed with flying colours. If you ever decide to take the test at the Ontario/Toronto Transport Canada office here are some time saving tips: 1. Head to the TC office on the 4th floor first, tell reception that you want to write the PPL test. She will…

  • Break over!

    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….

  • Where’s That Landmark?

    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…

  • Practice Makes Perfect!

    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….

  • On Deck for October…

    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…

  • Being sick sucks

    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…