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Turn, Turn, Turn, Turn
After the fiasco with the Tecnam Eaglet, my instructor didn’t want that lesson to be an entire waste of time so we hurried and jumped into a Cessna 152. My first time in this plane. It was more than an...
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Ground School
After my quick lesson, I was excited for a longer lesson the next time I made the trek out there. I was also now officially a PPL student. Making that differentiation was a big thing in my head. I had...
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Touch and Go’s
My instructor had me prep to be ready for the lesson to be slow flight, power on/off stalls, and maybe get in a few ground reference maneuvers. Great! I had studied up, watched a few UND Aerocast...
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Radio Talk
For those who don’t fly, have you ever listened to pilots talking to Air Traffic Control on the radio? If you have, you know it sounds like gibberish. You can listen to it at http://www.liveatc.net...
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Steep Turns, Slow Flight, and Stalls!
Alright, I’m finally caught up in real time with my lessons. I had my latest one yesterday. The winds were FINALLY not ridiculous, though they were definitely still there. The lesson didn’t start out...
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Headings
Here is something I’m struggling with a lot. Headings. I’ve never had to think about a compass more than North, East, South, West or some sort of combination of those. Put numbers on those and I’m...
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Silence on the Radio
I was happy to fly today after being grounded yesterday. Watching a landing on my walk in The weather looked good, clear skies, but a little windy. I trekked out there and I always like to see what...
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Thank You, Weather Gods!
The weather gods shine (and rained) down on me today. It was FINALLY a day with calm winds, actually, I think it was the first one ever since I started training. Winds were at 0kts and stayed there...
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Major Airport ATC
Yesterday, I flew home to Chicago to help my mom recover from surgery. Doing this puts a bit of a damper on flying, but I tried to make it up on the flight here. The captain announced people could...
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My Training is Very Repetitive
Weather has foiled what was to be (in my mind at least) my dramatic come back. The clouds were just too low. I was already most of the way out there when my instructor said the clouds weren’t lifting...
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Short but Sweet
I’m back in the air! Felt really nice too. I had a 4 hour block scheduled, but was only able to use an hour of it. I rolled over in bed and checked the weather around 6am, broken clouds at 800-900 ft....
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New School, New Instructor
Today, I had a flight lesson. Today, I was excited before I went flying. Today, I was happy when I left my flight lesson. Those three things haven’t correlated in awhile. It solidified my decision to...
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Dating A Pilot
Many of you may know already that I’m dating a regional airline pilot. I’ll actually tell you his name, Jake. I’m also just sick of writing “my boyfriend.” He is the reason why I’m interested in...
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Long Week, Long Cross Country
I feel like I haven’t updated in awhile, but just realize I haven’t had a lesson and it hasn’t been too long. But I’ve been busy so an update on things aviation and non-aviation (don’t worry I’ll...
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