Jaminky
Pre-Flight
I’d say I’m at the bottom of the pole herejust bought a Grumman aa1b and still waiting for the first lesson!Hopefully soon
New student pilot. No plans for CFI, MEL or etc. Just trying to get to where I can go see our grandkids ore often and cut that 6 hour drive down to somewhere around a two hour flight.
...get my class III and start flying.
Unfortunately I had to take a break from flying for a bit. Nothing like it and I wish everyone here continued success
First post! I've wanted to fly since I was 14. I remember racking up as much time as I could in FSX when it came out, planning to be the youngest pilot to ever get certified
Then High School and College happened (where I did get an Aerospace degree, so didn't stray too far), and then I became a real adult with finances.
Now that I'm settled in with a good salary, I can finally do it. I took my "Discovery Flight" back in October, and talked it over with the CFI. Him and I thought it would be wisest for me to run through Ground School (shoutout to the King Schools system) during the crummy weather in our area over the winter, then go gung-ho in spring on flight training.
Have my first flight since then, to be logged in a real life log book, this weekend!
Just for the record, it was a fantastic flight out of KCPS and back. I handled everything from starting the checklist until the landing, when my CFI took over (which, I felt relieved that he did. Being my first fully in control flight, I can admit I was feeling task-saturated when we started taking ATIS info down on approach when he took over. And I could tell he could tell, because he verbalized transfer of control right as I was thinking about asking him to take it). I learned a lot, especially that it's Okay to feel saturated as a student. There's a lot to learn. As soon as I felt saturated, I would tell him, and he would supplement.
I did get a thumbs up that I flew well for my first real lesson! Next step is getting better at trimming the aircraft. That was my primary point I took home. Then my next step is trying to reduce my tendency to over-control in the air. Probably a typical problem, but, one I'm very cognizant of. I was definitely better than my first intro flight a few months ago, though! Also think I was doing a LOT better of looking ahead, and NOT staring at instruments, as opposed to my first flight I took a few months ago. I spent a whole day reading NTSB reports on 152 and 172 fatal accidents, and quickly realized that, some variation of "failure to look outside of the cockpit" was a recurring theme.
Fingers crossed that the weather holds up, and I can be going up weekly, now that it's spring! I had such a great time. I think I'm now a flight addict. lol.
It's been a long road to it but I finally made it. Finished and passed my check-ride today - I am finally a private pilot ... woohoo!
It's been a long road to it but I finally made it. Finished and passed my check-ride today - I am finally a private pilot ... woohoo!
Thanks Ahmad! Hope to catch you and everybody on here for things like that as I start flying more!Congrats. Flying is a lot of fun. I flew to KCPS a month ago for some BBQ. Was supposed to fly in this past sat and stay the night in STL but the weather turned out ugly. KCPS is a nice lil class D and I like their FBO a lot.
Cheers to that! Congratulations!!!It's been a long road to it but I finally made it. Finished and passed my check-ride today - I am finally a private pilot ... woohoo!
I’ve officially passed my checkride, and am a newly minted private pilot
First post on here, currently working on my PPL. I've spent about 2 years (finances caused me to stop a few times) and have roughly 40 hours total time between a 172k, and a Hawk XPII (that one was a real performer).
I'm nearing my checkride, still haven't knocked out the written yet. I have struggled my whole life as far as cracking books open goes. I'm getting between 75 and 80s consistently on the ASA prepware app, I've passed and gotten the Kingschools endorsement but let it expire.
Really hoping to get this monkey off my back within the next couple weeks. But I guess we'll see what happens.
Cheers!
Here's a freebee that will be a big help:Starting the instrument flight training portion tomorrow.
Congratulations! Means your instructor did his or her job.And you did yours.Passed my instrument check ride in yesterday. Great feeling. Easier than I thought or would or was stressed too much about it.
On to commercial. Check ride for that scheduled a month from today.
Passed my instrument check ride in yesterday. Great feeling. Easier than I thought or would or was stressed too much about it.
On to commercial. Check ride for that scheduled a month from today.