I showed up at Premier Flight Center on the 17th just before 9:00 am. I booked a Cherokee Piper PA28-140 for a 2 hour window. My new flight instructor Mark showed up right after me. After a quick introduction, Mark informed me that the weather was not going to be cooperating with us today. The cloud levels were at 1200 feet, which was 300′ to low for us to practice any type of maneuvers at the airport. No biggie, we decide to go over to the plane and run through a pre-flight and become familiar with the plane. \u00c2\u00a0Mark ran me through the procedures that come with renting a plane as well as the various check lists. One of the things I found quite interesting was Mark showed me how to identify water in fuel. I’ve dealt with handling fuel before but never felt the need to dump water in it.<\/p>\n
After performing the preflight we sat in the plane for a bit, went through all the controls and instruments. After that we listened to the various airport operations from ATIS (Weather), Ground Control, & Air Traffic Control (Tower). After that we went in and discussed the various things that we would be doing. We went through some basic weather information and I learned how to translate weather reports known as METARs & TAFs. It is amazing how easy they are to read once you learn the layout. I am still amazed though that weather is still reported like computer memory was small & expensive. I have another session scheduled for saturday after ground school.<\/p>\n
During Saturday’s ground school we went over general flight environment stuff. Such as required equipment in an aircraft, proper take off and landing procedures, what to do when coming near another aircraft mid flight, taxiing procedures, pattern procedures, \u00c2\u00a0airport markings, and the different types of airspace.<\/p>\n
After ground school I grabbed lunch over at the restaurant located at the FBO. When I got back to school I was amazed to discover that someone changed my reservation from the Cherokee to a Cessna 172R. Apparently the Cherokee had to go in for maintenance and would be down for some time. After some back and forth debating, We ended up taking the 172 out for a bit.<\/p>\n
I’ll be perfectly honest, this was the first time I flew in a small GA aircraft since i was 11 years old. It was pretty terrifying at first and I did have some thoughts on whether or not I wanted to continue this. I never did feel comfortable while we in the Cessna. I blame a lot of this on sensory overload. Just way too many new things going on all at once. I remember someone once telling me that flying was 5 minutes of terror, followed by boredom, followed by 10 minutes of terror while landing. This is a great description for a first flight in a GA aircraft. Mark did get to have some fun and he messed with me a bit. nothing like watching the nose of the airplane dive down by spin the trim knob to make the stomach move. Once we landed we had a chat about how I felt. After that we ended up going over some of the maneuvers for Wednesday. To be continued…<\/p>\n
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| <\/td>\n | This Flight<\/td>\n | Total<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| # of Take Offs<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| # of Landings<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| X-Country Hours<\/td>\n | 0<\/td>\n | 0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Night Hours<\/td>\n | 0<\/td>\n | 0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Total Flight Time<\/td>\n | 1.1 Hours<\/td>\n | 1.1 Hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I showed up at Premier Flight Center on the 17th just before 9:00 am. I booked a Cherokee Piper PA28-140 for a 2 hour window. My new flight instructor Mark showed up right after me. After a quick introduction, Mark informed me that the weather was not going to be cooperating with us today. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daviid.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |