Main wheel alignment

Check out this maintenance update to see our tire change and main wheel alignment update. Our alignment was never quite right, and we wore the insides of our tires out prematurely because of it.

Flight Training Lesson 9

It’s the long Memorial Day weekend, and I’m going to try and get a couple of flights in as well as visit the Air Force Museum with some friends of ours. Today we stayed in the pattern for the first time, doing 12 landings. I did OK, but I need to get better about pulling […]

Flight Training Lesson 8

So my instructor was reading my blog this week, and decided to make me do more steep turns to the left. Therefore I decided to just lay down the law and crush them! Actually today was a pretty good day, and I actually performed some of the maneuvers to test standards, and showed some real […]

Flight Training Lesson 7

So I was starting to kind of get the hang of it today, so Pete decided to crush me with steep turns. Wow, do I suck. Well, I actually sort of got the hang of them to the right, but for some reason doing them to the left was like trying to solve the Rubik’s cube. One […]

Flight Training Lesson 6

More of the same. Seriously, I am getting better, but apparently we’re going to keep doing slow flight, stalls, ground reference maneuvers, and emergency procedures until I’m within test standards before we move to other topics, and that may take awhile. I can tell I’m getting better, but I’m just not there yet.

Flight Training Lesson 5

I’ve been out of town all week on business, so this was the first time I could get in the air since last weekend. We did 1.2 hours of slow flight and stalls as well as emergency procedures, including one simulated engine out to the runway. I’m getting better, which is good, because the slow […]