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!
It’s on! I plan on going to the airshow on Monday.. should be interesting. For those of you who can read NOTAMS: 060908 CZYZ TORONTO FIR CZYZ PURSUANT TO SECTION 5.1 OF THE AERONAUTICS ACT, AIRSPACE IS RESTRICTED SFC TO 10000 FT MSL WITHIN 5 NM RADIUS CENTERED ON 433727N 792541W (CNE GROUNDS, APRX 1…
The lesson in the sim yesterday went without a hitch. It still wasn’t fully repaired so the rudders on the left seat were broken. Spent an hour doing things like unusual attitudes and mock flight exam stuff. Pretty uneventful. My telephone rang (I forgot to turn it off) and my FI paused the sim to…