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, […]
Read MoreOne 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 […]
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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 […]
Read MoreWe had some crosswinds tonight, starting out as 13 knot direct crosswind component, so Pete and I went out to practice. It’s been pretty benign all summer, so I haven’t had much chance to practice with any real wind. Nobody else was out playing in it, which was a good sign! The winds were challenging, […]
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Today was my first solo cross-country. I thought I would be more nervous than I turned out to be, though I admit I had trouble falling asleep last night. But, I’d been to Bolton with Pete a couple of times, and we did a few laps together this morning, including a simulated emergency before I […]
Read MoreTonight we were working on the Practical Test Standards, getting me up to speed for my eventual test, since it’s getting too dark too early to do solo cross-country work during the week. It all went pretty well, I need to tighten up some stuff, but Pete thought everything was in the passing range, so […]
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