As you might be able to tell from the title, I'm a bit older than the average flight student at 51. I am a retired Federal Air Marshal (Border Patrol/INS prior)
I'm coming into this with about 670 hours TT all SEL mostly in Cessna's with Cherokees, RV's and Bonanza's thrown in. To protect the innocent I'll not name the school, but most of you that know my posts know were I'm at.
I'll try to give an "honest" blow by blow of my daily activities and impressions.
I'm coming into this with about 670 hours TT all SEL mostly in Cessna's with Cherokees, RV's and Bonanza's thrown in. To protect the innocent I'll not name the school, but most of you that know my posts know were I'm at.
I'll try to give an "honest" blow by blow of my daily activities and impressions.
Tuesday April 14th
Posted April 14th, 2009 at 20:19 by BillErvin
Wow, Internet withdrawal
5 days without the net. Got things working tonight, so I figured I'd add a post.
Friday I moved from the apartments we've been in, to the old Pan Am/Reg Airline academy housing at Fort Pierce Airport. The school will move as soon as they get FAA's ok, they have to approve the new digs, even though they've been approved twice before.
It'll be nice to have a quite non-crowded place to study, plus I won't use gas anymore because everything at the school is within shouting distance.
Not much flying over the last week, weather, instructor gone for a few days, moving. Severe TS & Tornado warnings today When we did fly, I did well on most maneuvers, but still working on the scan. I have ASA's Instrument Procedures Trainer on my desktop and have been using it to "pretend fly" as my wife calls it. Started the Instrument Ground school Yesterday, the AC quit first thing, so we had a short day but it was fixed today and we did 2 1/2 hours on first couple of chapters.
Compass turns are a pain in the arse and that's all I have to say about that
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Early day tomorrow, hopefully no fog in the AM, I'd like to fly
TTFN
5 days without the net. Got things working tonight, so I figured I'd add a post.Friday I moved from the apartments we've been in, to the old Pan Am/Reg Airline academy housing at Fort Pierce Airport. The school will move as soon as they get FAA's ok, they have to approve the new digs, even though they've been approved twice before.
It'll be nice to have a quite non-crowded place to study, plus I won't use gas anymore because everything at the school is within shouting distance.
Not much flying over the last week, weather, instructor gone for a few days, moving. Severe TS & Tornado warnings today
When we did fly, I did well on most maneuvers, but still working on the scan. I have ASA's Instrument Procedures Trainer on my desktop and have been using it to "pretend fly" as my wife calls it. Started the Instrument Ground school Yesterday, the AC quit first thing, so we had a short day but it was fixed today and we did 2 1/2 hours on first couple of chapters.Compass turns are a pain in the arse and that's all I have to say about that
.Early day tomorrow, hopefully no fog in the AM, I'd like to fly
TTFN
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