I’m a little slow at writing this update, but two Saturdays ago I was doing the last of my initial introduction to air work. We practiced stalls, spins, as well as flight for range and endurance. We were going to do spiral dives, but after doing three stalls and two spins are started to get [...]
This lesson was a success! Much better than the last one. I did the pre-flight inspection myself. My instructor quickly checked things as well before we got started, but for the first time I was getting the plane ready pretty much on my own. I did not find any snags on the plane, there was [...]
Last Friday was lesson number three. It started off alright. We talked about range and endurance during the preparatory ground instruction we talked about range and endurance, slow flight, stalls and steep turns. We tried to check the weather on the school computer, but Firefox was being unresponsive (the computer was running out of virtual memory, and [...]
I now have lesson number two completed. First of all, one thing I’ve noticed about this flight was that I did not feel nauseous at all. Perhaps it was all the peppermint tea I’ve been drinking, the fact I wore sunglasses this flight, or maybe it was because my flight instructor was working me a lot harder this lesson [...]
Last Friday I was finally able to complete my very first flight. It went very well, and wasn’t that bad. Occasionally, I felt a bit nauseous from the quick altitude changes, but other than that it was good. Flying behind the controls of a small plane was an entirely new experience; almost like being in a magical Disney [...]
It has been a while since I’ve posted on this blog, but I just wanted to say that I’ve finally booked an orientation flight in a Cessna 172N. I was scheduled to go out on Tuesday, but the flight got postponed until the next day due to a thunderstorm. Well, Wednesday is here, but looks [...]
This whole fiasco surrounding ATC Dad was created and blown out of proportion by the FAA. The controversy started ATC Dad back in February when a LiveATC listener heard a seven year old on JFK ATC. He then proceeded to record the boys transmission and share it on YouTube. The ATC Controller’s only mistake was [...]
For everyone who wants to celebrate Barack Obama’s first visit to Canada, you may want to listen to the ATC for the Air Force One callsign. Conviently, LiveATC.net has the terminal, tower, ground and cleareance frequencies setup for Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport. You can find the link to the streaming audio here, or if you [...]
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Posted 17 February 2009
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I took an hour and a half flight from Dryden to Thunder Bay today in a Cessna 172SP. The winds were calm, but light flurries as I took off. Things cleared up when I got close to Dryden. Landing was a little hard and could use a bit of work. This flightw as flown IFR, [...]
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Posted 16 February 2009
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This is an amazing photo taken by Janis Krums of the rescue attempt of U.S. Airways Flight 1549. It beats CNN by far! I believe it was taken from a ferry helping with the rescue. Amazing job by the pilot making an emergency landing.
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Posted 15 January 2009
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