Going 3D

As you might have seen recently posted, some of our Velocity builder’s and owners have started flying with the GoPro camera system. I’d been interested, but never was really keen on suction-cuping a camera to the wing and have it potentially come off. It seems that mostly doesn’t happen, but then Velocity owner Bob Jackson […]

Installing GoPro Hero2 cameras and the Sky-3D system

I’d mentioned that I’d bought these cameras, but with all of the flying I’ve been doing and the, I hadn’t finished installing them. The weather was a factor on in the fact that the biggest part of the instructions is getting the under-wing-mount’s toe-in angle correct. In order to do that I need to get […]

Poor Weather

So, I’ve been trying to get in once last solo cross-country to log my last required landing at a controlled airport, and get in the last few solo hours I need, but the weather has been terrible lately, mostly with high winds. I hope to finish up in the next couple of weeks, but I’ve […]

Flight Training Lesson 33

Tonight I went up with Pete just to work on the maneuvers required for the Flight Exam (Practical Test Standards, or PTS). I’ll go back out solo on Thursday evening. We just worked on turns about a point, S turns, power on and power off stalls, steep turns, and emergency procedures. It all went fine, […]

Written knowledge test passed

One of the few remaining hurdles to getting my license has been the written (or so-called knowledge) exam. There are a couple of local CATS testing locations, and the one at Aviation Sales (KMGY) was the simplest to schedule. I’d been studying some for several weeks, and in fact took a bunch of time during our Labor […]

Flight Training Lesson 32, Long Solo Cross-Country

So the last major milestone to my pilot’s certificate was the long solo cross-country. I’ll just cop to it right now, I started the morning out feeling well prepared for the flight. The forecast was great for the morning, which should give me plenty of time to do everything I needed to do, but the […]