One Zulu Delta

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This was a pretty exciting day. We flew to Bridgeport, Connecticut (BDR) for more crosswind landing practice, along with the practice of navigating to a new airport. BDR isn’t too hard to find; we just head out to the Northport Stacks (the VFR visual checkpoint near the north practice area, we’ve discussed it before), then head northeast across Long Island …

This was the longest flight lesson, I’ve had so far, at 1.9 hours. And we did it ALL. Steep turns, slow flight, power-off and power-on stalls, S-turns, turns around a point, rectangular courses, forward slips, no-flaps landings… Sometimes, this stuff feels a bit esoteric. I’ve absorbed everything I could about flight training for years: read books, websites, blogs, watched videos. I …

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The Pre-Flight I’m switching instructors. That sounds more dramatic than it really is. I was flying with one of the co-owners of the flight school. He is a great instructor, but he also has a day job like me and I was starting to get the feeling scheduling would be an issue. He was one step ahead of me and …

Just some guy with KEYS TO AN AIRPLANE. OK, so it’s not MY airplane, it’s the flight school’s. And all of the students get keys. But come ON. I get to carry AIRPLANE KEYS in my pocket.

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  Lesson #3: In Which Our Hero Lands A Plane ALL BY HIMSELF A few friends have commented on the pure joy and enthusiasm dripping from both this blog and from me as a person for the past month. I won’t apologize! I say things that make me sound like a 5 year old, and I love it! I did …

According to the FAA, at least… A lot of friends have been asking me about the particulars of flight training, i.e. when/how does one get their license, how much/often do you have to fly, what do you have to do, so I figured it would be easiest to outline the requirements of the Private Pilot Certificate here on the blog. …