September 2006

Today’s flight was from 12:30 to 2:30 instead of my normal morning flight due to no planes being available. It was a nice day, though. Highs...

Tonight we finished talking about aerodynamics and started on basic flight instruments, how they function, how to read them, and what to expect when they fail....

It was a much warmer day than Thursday; highs in the mid to upper 80s. The weather was questionable. Broken clouds at 1800 feet and some...

Today was a much better day. I was a little tired from being at class late last night and having to get up early to go...

Tonights class was more aerodynamics. There was a lot of review for the first hour since there were a couple new people. We talked about coordinated...

Today started out fine, but ended in some frustration. I bought a new motorcycle tank/tail bag to double as a flight bag for now so that...

Ground school started today at the club. There were about 14 students of varying ages, but all but one was male. Most were at least my...

The weather was mostly nice today. Visibility wasn’t the best, but no worse than most of my other lessons. Winds were calm, which is always nice....

Nothing major, but the vacuum pump on the plane failed today in the middle of flight. More on that later. Last night, the forecast for this...