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August 7th, 2007, 15:12
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 82
|  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, 15:34
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: N'awlinz
Posts: 1,837
   | 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, 16:02
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: In a place warmer than State College.. for now.
Posts: 973
| 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, 15:56
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| Junior Member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: KGEU / KGYR
Posts: 134
| Re: I'm a pilot!!
Congrats!!! Welcome to the club. Remember that that PPL is a license to learn now.
__________________ PP-ASEL Instrument Airplane "The only thing that stands between man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible." - Richard Devos |
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August 8th, 2007, 16:03
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: KIDP/KCNU
Posts: 3,008
| 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, 17:39
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Everywhere
Posts: 1,198
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Congrads!!!!!!!!!!!!
__________________ Paid to wait.... Fly for fun! |
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August 8th, 2007, 17:54
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gretna, LA
Posts: 2,870
| Re: I'm a pilot!!
Congratulations! Very exciting!
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August 8th, 2007, 20:34
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Union, Kentucky (CVG area)
Posts: 627
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Congrats!!! Just recently got mine myself. I'm still pumped!
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August 9th, 2007, 00:38
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Queen Creek, AZ
Posts: 354
| 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, 01:30
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: KGKY
Posts: 947
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Good job man. Congrats
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August 9th, 2007, 19:58
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: DFW
Posts: 799
| Re: I'm a pilot!!
Congrats - who did you end up going with?
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