Local Solo flight 1, Flight 35

I only lack a handful of solo hours to be eligible for the private pilot exam, so I’m trying to work them off. Unfortunately it’s dark so early here now during the week it’s really not possible to do solo work on a week day. So this weekend I planned to get 2 flights in […]

Flight Training Lesson 34, Solo cross country back to Bolton Field (KTZR)

Today we finally got some good weather again, after all of the rain and very high winds of sandy and the other storms that have moved through recently. So, I got up and got the frost off of the Warrior and was on my way to Bolton near Columbus, OH by 9 am. The conditions […]

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 […]