Recent content by Transvection

Current PPL working on my IFR right now. I am about 4 hours in, mostly Sim time at the moment. Mostly Pattern A and Pattern B under the hood. Having fun so far! You can follow my progress or read about my PPL adventures here -> https://packflier.com

I appreciate the feedback. As a student, it is hard to know what is normal sometimes. I walked away for the first time feeling like I may not be able to do this. I still struggle with slipping a crosswind normally with a crosswind higher than about 8. The little 152 only has a component of...

Yeah, My revised plan looks decent. There are some good highways, and a few good towns as well as a lake on the way. The airfield is at an intersection of two highways so yeah, shouldn't be too bad. I just goofed on the first planning.

Congrats! Awesome Feeling huh?

No, the cross country didn't get cancelled because of that. I had drawn up my flight plan to include the VOR but she really wanted me to do it direct. The issue was she forgot to tell me that I should do direct so all of my numbers were wrong. Plus there were some low hanging clouds hanging...

For the first time since I started flying, I scared myself today. We scrapped a cross country due to various things and decided to start working on advanced takeoff and landing techniques. Aka, Softfield and shortfield takeoff and landings. The winds were gusting 10-15 with nearly a direct...

Wow, we must have been pretty close... I landed at SCR around 1:20. :) EDIT: Actually looking back at my timestamps on cloud ahoy, I was at SCR at 1:04. I wonder if you were in the pattern when I was taking off. There were two in the pattern when I headed back to TTA. Hope I didn't...

After two weeks of bad weather and my instructor being on vacation, I was able to get back in the air. Completed my first solo to another airport. Round Robin from KTTA-KSCR. It was a lot of fun, I updated my blog with the details.

Congrats!!

Nice Job! Now on to the fun stuff!

I did my first night flight last night and thought it was really cool. We only stayed in the pattern and the wind was a light crosswind so it was a pretty serene experience. Before hand I have read about some pretty bad experiences with night flight that turned some people off. It got me to...

Congrats! Feels good doesn't it? Don't worry about the hours. I solo'd at 27 with a lot of confidence. I couldn't imagine soloing at 10 hours. I barely had 10 landings under my belt at that point. Great confidence boost, keep it up!

Since I am alone, she wants to make sure that there are no issues with the engine that could be potentially caught, like a mag or vacuum failure. More than anything I think it is just an extra safety measure. When I fly with her, we do a run up every 5th landing usually. The club that I am...

Cool! My first solo was in N89433. My second was in N89333.

Second Solo today!! One more supervised solo and I get signed off to solo to the practice area. Weather has been pretty poor lately so not a lot of flying. But today was sweet