Tristar
Pattern Altitude
After hearing numerous promises for new airplanes and not seeing any results, we finally got a 2005 Cessna 172R with a G1000. This will be the first aircraft in our fleet less than 9 years old and also with more equipment than a KLN 89B. Even then, we have about 4 R models with that much! Most of the other airplanes are like a typical flight school beginning from around the early 1980's and older with only a VOR or two. That perfect for new students and even IFR students wanting to learn the basics but we needed someway to transition students and instructors to the advancing world of glass in the cockpit. I definitely believed thats a portion of what separated us from other bigger flight schools.
Here's a few pictures of this notorious "new airplane" we've all heard about for a year or more. Sorry I couldn't turn on the panel, apparently everyone was so mystified at the curiously in tact cockpit including a new strange box that lights up with color and no round thingies that it pretty much drained the battery after its first afternoon on the ramp.
Hopefully it wont be absolutely reduced to rubble because of its new student environment before I get a small taste of it with a CFI. ....but the CFIs have to be trained in it first!
Its really exciting but you don't dare chance flying it just yet without your fingers getting bit by other students! I'll stick to flying the 152s and RG for now.
Here's a few pictures of this notorious "new airplane" we've all heard about for a year or more. Sorry I couldn't turn on the panel, apparently everyone was so mystified at the curiously in tact cockpit including a new strange box that lights up with color and no round thingies that it pretty much drained the battery after its first afternoon on the ramp.
Hopefully it wont be absolutely reduced to rubble because of its new student environment before I get a small taste of it with a CFI. ....but the CFIs have to be trained in it first!
Its really exciting but you don't dare chance flying it just yet without your fingers getting bit by other students! I'll stick to flying the 152s and RG for now.