Bravo Zulu Aviation

My apologies for such a tardy post…so much to catch up on.  I should be able to catch up on life in the next year or so.  The short version of the story is that I received my CFI ticket during Oshkosh week, and headed directly there to celebrate.  I enjoyed a great 3 days […]

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Bad Blogger…I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I started at an accelerated flight school, and that I’d post my experiences here.I’ve now learned exactly what accelerated means:  Work your butt off 24-7 until you’re done.  I prepared for and passed three check rides in 8 days. 3 of those days were almost entirely […]

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For a long time now I have thought that immersion in a subject is the best way to learn it.  I have been making strides to integrate more aviation into my daily life, hoping maybe to learn by osmosis.  Unfortunately the schedule at home always tends to fill up no matter how hard I try […]

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This past Friday I had planned to use my shiny new complex endorsement to fly with my wife up to Maine in our club Arrow. My early preflight planning showed the ugly weather that had passed through upstate New York earlier in the day had not made as much progress east as I hoped […]

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With some anxiety I keyed the mic just as the sun was rising over southern NY:
“NY Approach, N73450″
” N73450, go ahead”
“NY Approach N73450 is a Cessna 172, level 3000ft, over Dutchess Co, with Kennedy information X-Ray, landing Kennedy”
I could only wait, and hope for the best. I had spoken with a number of commercial pilots […]

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We’ve all looked to the sky and strained our necks towards the distant drone of an airplane. Somehow things change once you’ve actually been behind the controls of one. Despite barely catching a glimpse of a plane cruising by at some unknown altitude, you can’t help but wonder the details of the journey, the […]

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So my plan with this category, is to go back through my logbook and document in more detail the experiences that brought me to the Private Pilot level. Hopefully this will be educational if not entertaining for those involved in their own training or considering it. I think that some of the lessons I learned […]

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