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This is a place holder until I get the pictures from these flights.

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Today I canceled my flight lesson. It's not the weather; it's a beautiful day out. It's because I'm unprepared. For some reason I thought I could casually just start training again by showing up the the airport once or twice a week, but that's irresponsible. I have to make sure that I'm properly prepared the day before. I have to make sure I get up early enough to have a proper breakfast and

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Today I thought I would have a relaxing reintroduction to the Cessna 152 and just get used to the fell of flying again. Not quite the case. We went though everything I've been practicing to get back up to speed: straight-and-level, steep turns, slow flight, power-on stalls, power-off stalls, slipping and touch-and-goes at Pitt Meadows. Seiji also thought I had twice the hours I I actually do, so

Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006724878505395864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924301162843743807.post-68324192163287977102009-07-12T15:00:00.000-07:002009-07-19T10:36:02.709-07:00

My friend, Josh, wants to finally start his flight training after taking his familiarization flight with me over a year ago. So on July 12 we went down to the airport for him to start and for me to get back in the left seat and continue my training. After filling out all the paperwork and going though the briefing, Josh got to fly first. He's a tall guy, so we rented 172 for him which meant I got

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My usual instructor disappeared today so I flew with a newer instructor. We did more patterns around Pitt Meadows and showed me an easy way to get down to speed in the approach. Just before turning into base, bring down the RPM from 2100 to 1900 while maintaining pattern height. That should bring the speed down just to the bottom of the white ark. Once establish on the base, bring down 10 degrees

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It's been five weeks since my last flight so we reviewed a few things such as slow flight, stalls and some pattern work around Pitt Meadows. I was a little rough and got ahead of myself on a few of the maneuvers. My instructor also said he's been getting all his students to focus on attitude control. Maybe he's just tired of being ill from all the ups and downs.

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My usual instructor is out of the country so I flew with someone else today. We practiced the traffic circuit around Boundray Bay Airport witch is a little lower than standard at 800 feet. It's a little harder to work a lower pattern as you have less time time to do all your maneuvers and checks, but once you get over that it's convenient to be able to complete more patterns in the same amount of

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Today we did more spins and I didn't want to stop. I'm starting to enjoy them and I think I should practice them once and a while so I don't start to fear them again. We also started doing pattern work, covered stalls again did an introduction to spirals. I'm getting close to the point where I can go solo.It was a perfectly clear day with not a cloud across half of Canada. Unfortunately, I forgot

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Every time I'm at the airport there's some new and interesting piece of machinery. Today there was a Bell 212 doing it's start up.Bell 212Today's the day I start doing the entire spin. I need to learn to slow down a little and go though the steps without skipping any. Below is a video if my instructor demonstrating a spin over the "blasting zone".Spin

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First I'll share with you the first thing that caught my eye on the apron today, a Boeing Kaydet. We saw this guy take off during our preflight checks and it rocketed out of there like a bat out of hell. It must have been climbing at around 1500 to 2000 feet per minute. I guess having two sets of wings has it's advantages.The ceilings were a little low today (broken at 2200 feet) but it seemed a

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I told myself that for my next flight I'm going to take the initiative and do what I know I should be doing without pausing on every item for conformation from my instructor. I'm going to fly the plane.Before ground school I've been practicing my checklists on the ground in parked planes and I've been running through the whole routine from inspection to cruise. I became quite comfortable with it

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The whole week everyone was talking about how nice it was going to be on Saturday. I started getting worried the airport would be extremely busy and stressful. When I got to the airport, it was dead quiet. Odd, I thought. Then I realized that the airport is dead because no one is stuck there doing laps around the pattern. No one is forced to do touch-n-goes and are all out and about, doing

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The scheduling was tight but I made it to class and back. Today's class was about something I used to find a bit boring: weather. It's a topic with a fairly simply theory, but remembering what does what and why is a bit complicated. For example, nearly everything comes back to the fact that high-pressure areas are usually cool and dry while low-pressure areas are warm and wet. When a high

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Today we practiced slow flight again. This time I was to practice being more accurate in maintaining altitude during transition. On my first try I climbed 200 ft; the maximum tolerance on a commercial flight test. It took me a while to make sure I was doing everything right and I moved through the process quite slowly. My instructor demonstrated entering slow flight again, this time showing how

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It’s the Easter long weekend and I had two flights booked as well as a lot of other things planned, but I end up getting sick and spend most of the weekend at home. Monday I’m feeling okay, so I’m sure to make it down to the airport as to not make the long weekend a total waste. The school's schedule was booked solid, so I wouldn’t have much flex room for the flight. As my instructor debriefs his

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I had my first lesson booked for eleven o’ clock but as I bussed down to the airport the sky was dark and wet. I had to fill out some forms, so I thought at least the trip wasn’t going to be a complete waste. When I got to the airport the rain had stopped and the clouds seemed ever so slightly lighter. Maybe there was hope. I filled out the forms and met up with my instructor a bit early. We did

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Josh and I went down to Boundary Bay Airport as we had familiarization flights booked for 1:00. When we checked in we found my instructor had the day off so we both went with Josh’s instructor to calculate our loads for our flights while the front desk worked out the scheduling. We soon found that Josh was just a bit too big for the 152 (two seat Cessna) so we upgraded him to the 172 (four seat

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