Recent content by PWRDrill

The winds can get pretty bad around here quickly. Maybe one day I'll see you down here again?

No flying today, but my instructor began to talk to me about my *gulp* first solo. He gave me a couple written tests to satisfy the requirements of my part 141 school, and the Aero Club. I still have a few lessons between now and then, but I still can't believe those words were coming out of...

Funny that my instructor said the same thing... I'm working on it :) Hope you all don't mind my indulgence on this thread. I'm taking a page out of eMKay's thread and using this as a sort of pilot log to capture my experiences.

Well spoken. So far, I have discovered that I lose about 40 IQ points when I enter the cockpit. It is a crazy place! Simulator's don't simulate the stress of the cockpit. I'm thinking that will improve as I get more time :)

I just started my private again after a long layoff, and I'm not a pilot - yet. Take this with a grain of salt, but I believe that it can be somewhat helpful; especially if you have never done any type of flying or sim training. The cost is so small compared to actual flight training. The...

Success! Sort of :) Nate, thank you for taking the time to write up that explanation. Between that and my instructors help, I started flying straight today :) One thing that helped was I had my instructor fly straight towards a tiny cloud way off in the distance. This helped me pick a part...

I think I had a "Eureka" moment driving home from work today. I've was racking my brain to figure out why my landings are so hit-and-miss, and I think I found the problem. I am giddy to talk to my instructor about it tomorrow. I haven't seen this problem mentioned before in the various...

You can cheat with the ones that I wear, but you would have to "look up" at an pretty high angle. During my previous flight training, we used the hood. I prefer the foggles.

Been following your progress for months. Very inspirational. Love the videos. Thanks for sharing.

Today I logged another 1.8 hours. -We went over all types of stalls, power on/off, cross controlled, accellerated (not a fan of this one), and various stalls at 20-30 degrees of bank (not a fan of these either). Those T-41s sure don't like to stall easy. -Did some foggle time and some...

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome! I appreciate the feedback. I got 1.8 hours in today. Did some foggle work, power on/off stalls, turns (ascending and descending), and 6 more landings. On the power on stall, I pushed the nose over a little too much and got some 0g time...I lost about...

Hello all, I've been lurking here for a while, but I finally started my private again today after an 18 year hiatus. My prior hours were in the single digits, and pre-solo, but I'm excited to finish this time. I'm training out of KABQ in a T-41C (172 with 210 hp). Today was my first flight...