Good luck!Waiting for my private check ride - scheduled for the 24th. Gonna be a long week of waiting.
8th flight doing aerobatics now.nnhaving a blast
Don't worry bout how many hours you have before the checkride. When you are ready, your CFI will sign you offFor my update,
Getting close to the home stretch. Instructor is trying to get me to finish up most of my solo aero experience requirements so then final stretch work on ensuring everything is to PTS.
Unfortunately weather is not cooperating. I've had to CX my last 4 weekends of solo XC attempts due to wx. Some weekends i've even had two slots.
Also to make scheduling a little more difficult, my school lost their 2 full time instructors to regionals and the part time instructors are having to cover while they try to find new ones. It's made weekends busier. i didn't jive with either of them so i went with a seasoned part timer and didn't get bit by it.
35hrs logged
whats left,
another solo XC
dual night XC
maneuvers to PTS
solo finish up.
I'm still aiming to be ready to checkride at 50 or in low 50s.
Always enjoy seeing this thread pop back up......
New here. I had my first lesson last Friday, and went up again today. I am officially hooked! Only 1.4 hours so far, as my CFI keeps things short due to my motion sickness. My goal is to have my PPL in 18 months. I'd love it sooner, but alas, I can't afford to go the quick route. Especially since my husband is also going for his (he's at 21.2 hours).
Better get that motion sickness under control or youre gonna HATE hood work!
Wonder if CFI will let you sit back seat during husbands training. Would probably be beneficialNew here. I had my first lesson last Friday, and went up again today. I am officially hooked! Only 1.4 hours so far, as my CFI keeps things short due to my motion sickness. My goal is to have my PPL in 18 months. I'd love it sooner, but alas, I can't afford to go the quick route. Especially since my husband is also going for his (he's at 21.2 hours).
2.4 hours and 2 lessons in. Been wanting to do this since I was 4 years old probably. I am 33 now, and decided: it is now or never. It is the worst and most expensive time/place in my life to do it, as I am living in Brooklyn, and have to take a train out to Long Island (KFRG) to take lessons in probably the most expensive region in the country.
But I just can't NOT do it anymore. I can't let life get in the way anymore. Work commitments kept me from getting my 3rd lesson it for TWO WHOLE WEEKS and I am going crazy. I go back up Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday (depending on weather/knock on wood) and hope to do 3 times a week from here on out.
P.S. First post woohoo!
2.4 hours and 2 lessons in [...] But I just can't NOT do it anymore. I can't let life get in the way anymore. Work commitments kept me from getting my 3rd lesson it for TWO WHOLE WEEKS and I am going crazy. I go back up Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday (depending on weather/knock on wood) and hope to do 3 times a week from here on out.
P.S. First post woohoo!
Nice. I just broke 300 hours. I have a lot more instructing to doJust passed 1k hours. I'm starting to get the hang of landings and hope to be even better when I have twice as much time.
Nice. I just broke 300 hours. I have a lot more instructing to do
Lesson #3 yesterday and I MADE A LANDING ALL BY MYSELF!
I'm trying to be at the school as much as I can but I can do only 4 days a week due to college.Time adds up fast once you get that first big job. I know you're at a 61 school. I did 61 briefly but it was mostly discovery flights.
Congrats!Well hell! Weather got me today. At least got the oral part of the checkride out of the way. DPE said I did real well on it at least. Rescheduled for next Tuesday.
Well hell! Weather got me today. At least got the oral part of the checkride out of the way. DPE said I did real well on it at least. Rescheduled for next Tuesday.
I've been GoPro-ing my flights for review, and during yesterday's lesson, mounted it on the side window slight behind me for a different view. The suction cup wasn't super stable, but I decided (and told the CFI) that if it fell, I'm ignoring it until after landing/shutdown. Well one of my (seven! woohoo!) landings was, shall we say....firm, and POP! Goodbye GoPro. Rest of the video is a view of the back of my seat
I soloed on Saturday. Now, we moved to cross-country ground work. WE did flight planning last night and we are going on a dual x-country on Saturday.