I was only marginally ok for class last night, but my cold wasn’t gone nearly enough for me to fly this morning. No point in pushing...
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Ground school: Class 7
We didn’t finish all of the FARs we needed to cover from last week, so we started with the rest of those. Nothing especially interesting. The...
Continue reading...Head cold? Don’t fly!
I couldn’t avoid the head cold that was going around in my family, so I had to cancel this evening’s lesson. I hear flying with any...
Continue reading...Moving along
The weather was mostly great today. It sure looked nice from the ground, and the wind was calm, but at 3000 feet it was 9 knots,...
Continue reading...Ground school: Class 6
We got our quizes back tonight. The two questions I wasn’t sure about, I missed. One I already mentioned in my class 5 entry. The other...
Continue reading...Rain, clouds, more rain, more clouds
This evenings scheduled lesson was a no brainer no go. It rained all day and the ceiling was sinking throughout the day. By 4pm, the cloud...
Continue reading...One of those lessons
I was really looking forward to today’s lesson. The weather looked nice: clear, cool, but a little windy. We were in 333, the first time I...
Continue reading...Ground school: Class 5
Tonight we started with a quiz covering all of the material we’ve studied to date. The quiz doesn’t count for anything other than to show us...
Continue reading...Go, no go
This morning the weather was questionable. The area briefings suggested the clouds should go away between 8 and 10 am, anytime from the start of my...
Continue reading...Leaving the nest
Tonight, for the first time, I left the familiar surroundings of the Sanford/Lee County airport and practice area to the west. The weather was very nice:...
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