Winging It

Lesson 52 – Some Hood Time

November 3, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom

I was planning on making my first solo cross country flight yesterday but the weather didn’t cooperate. The winds were gusting as high as 30 knots in the area and occasional snow showers were popping up along my route to Janesville. Instead, we decided to make this a dual flight out to the practice area […]

Lesson 51 – More Overload

October 30, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom

A week ago, Sandy and I made a trip to the busy Class D Palwaukee Airport. The object of that lesson was to put me in a heavy workload situation where I had to stay ahead of the airplane to keep up. Yesterday’s lesson was more of the same but even more extreme. We flew […]

Lesson 50 – First Night Flight

October 26, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom
/ 3 COMMENTS

Thursday is one of my usual flying days but, the weather forecast for this Thursday wasn’t very good. I checked with Sandy and we decided to switch to Wednesday night. We have been trying to get my first night flight done so this was a perfect chance. I couldn’t have asked for a better evening […]

Lesson 49 – Overload

October 23, 2006
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/ By tom
/ 2 COMMENTS

Sandy decided the strong, gusty winds yesterday were just what we needed to make this lesson challenging. We flew to Palwaukee, which is one of the busier GA airports in the Chicago area, and did one landing there. We taxied back and got a quick clearance to take off to the north. Sandy had me […]

Lesson 48 – Another Round Robin

October 20, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom

This lesson was much like the last one and went even better. The plan was to fly to Lake in the Hills, Burlington and then back to Waukegan. The airplane was not yet available when I got to the airport and that made us a little late taking off. Another student was scheduled after me, […]

Lesson 47 – Back in the Air

October 16, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom

I finally got back to flying after my long layoff. I definitely have accumulated some rust that needs knocking off. That was most obvious in the landings. The plan was to take off from Waukegan and fly to Galt, enter the pattern and land there, take off again and fly to Grand Geneva, enter that […]

Holding

October 10, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom

Sorry for the lack of recent posts. In my last one, I mentioned that I missed a couple lessons because I wasn’t feeling well. As it turned out, I have had to miss several weeks of training. I have been battling a very bad prostate infection for some time now. I am finally starting to […]

Catching Up

September 23, 2006
/ airshows flying
/ By tom
/ 3 COMMENTS

It’s been a while since I made an entry and I have some catching up to do. I haven’t flown in a couple weeks but, things have been going on. I went to the air show at the Waukegan Airport on September 9. The weather was not ideal but the show did go on. The […]

Lesson 45 – Review and Some Trickery

September 8, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom
/ 3 COMMENTS

After fighting a cold for several days, I’m finally starting to feel better. I got in a long flying lesson yesterday. Even though I wasn’t feeling 100%, it went OK. This, and the next lesson, are supposed to be a review of everything I have learned so far in preparation for the Stage 3 check. […]

Lesson 44 – Soft Field and More Hood Time

September 1, 2006
/ flying
/ By tom

This lesson added another .5 hours of simulated instrument time to my total. In addition to more of the straight and level, turns and climbs and descents I did last time, Sandy added distraction by having me tune the radio and set the GPS while still maintaining my instrument scan. I kept the airplane right […]

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