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August 7th, 2007, 14:12
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007
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|  I'm a pilot!! I passed my oral/flight test Sunday!! The examiner I had was a really personable and nice guy. I knew 98% of all the questions he answered except mainly 2 that come to my mind right now. When does class E airspace begin, and G end... Which I plan on doing a write up on that with a pic. of a sectional so anybody that's confused can hopefully get it. Because I was having a hard time understanding the Blue/Magenta shading in Class E... And he explained it really well. The other one was about TFR's, he asked me some examples and I told him for example, if president bush is in town, or maybe a large wildfire where they are doing water-bombing. He still wanted to hear another answer and I wasn't quite getting what he wanted, so he asked "Are you a sports fan?" and i thought... Duh! You can't fly over the Super Bowl!... Or large gaterings of people, and that was the answer he was looking for. The flight part of the test went pretty good. I flew RIGHT OVER the VOR that I was going for. The wind was blowing pretty good and it was 28 miles out from the airport and it was my first time flying to that VOR, so I felt a little better about it. The only things I really could of done better on, was the approach to departure stalls, and S-turns around a road. On the departure stalls, he said I was wanting to "break" the stall and I needed to let it just stall more smoothly. And on the S-turns, I wasn't quite judging the distance I needed when flying downwind and I was leveling off before I hit the road. But other than that, I did everything else great. So it took me about a year and 2 months to get it. Which may seem a long time to some of you guys, but I started when I turned 16 so I had quite a bit of solo time waiting for my 17th birthday to come around. I think I have around 63 hours or so. Thank you all...this is absolutley the best site for pilots anywhere. Period. --Okie_Pilot |
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August 7th, 2007, 14:34
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Trollbane
Posts: 1,440
   | Re: I'm a pilot!! congratulations! 
__________________ Private pilot, instrument Embry-Riddle Alumnus USN Active http://forums.jetcareers.com/changin...nfessions.html |
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August 7th, 2007, 15:02
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: In a place warmer than State College.. for now.
Posts: 877
| Re: I'm a pilot!! Thatta way to go! IMHO it is the best feeling of any of the ratings! |
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August 8th, 2007, 14:56
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| Junior Member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: KGEU
Posts: 118
| Re: I'm a pilot!! Congrats!!! Welcome to the club. Remember that that PPL is a license to learn now.
__________________ PP-ASEL Instrument Airplane "Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere....write that down." -Van Wilder- |
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August 8th, 2007, 15:03
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: KIDP/KCNU
Posts: 2,998
| Re: I'm a pilot!!  Good Job
__________________ www.flywhiteair.com http://www.myspace.com/desertdog71 Following message is for SkyCougar.  Took my chances on a big jet plane, Never let them tell you that they're all the same. |
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August 8th, 2007, 16:39
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Everywhere
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| Re: I'm a pilot!! Congrads!!!!!!!!!!!!
__________________ Paid to wait.... Fly for fun! |
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August 8th, 2007, 16:54
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gretna, LA
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| Re: I'm a pilot!! Congratulations! Very exciting! |
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August 8th, 2007, 19:34
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Union, Kentucky/ Burleson, Texas
Posts: 600
| Re: I'm a pilot!! Congrats!!! Just recently got mine myself. I'm still pumped! |
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August 8th, 2007, 23:38
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Queen Creek, AZ
Posts: 310
| Re: I'm a pilot!! Good Job! Congrats!
__________________ Tha Lord's gonna save ya, brotha! GO SPURS GO! A&P Mechanic/ Private Pilot /51.5 Hrs logged http://www.logshare.com/log.jsp?emai...stegui@msn.com |
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August 9th, 2007, 00:30
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: KGKY
Posts: 924
| Re: I'm a pilot!! Good job man. Congrats
__________________ CFI, CFII, IGI |
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August 9th, 2007, 18:58
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: OKC
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| Re: I'm a pilot!! Congrats - who did you end up going with? |
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