Yesterday, my attention was drawn to a recent legal judgement detailing how Transport Canada had wrongly interpreted its own regulations and handing a small but significant victory to aircraft owners and operators. If you’re one, or if you’re planning on taking a flight test any time soon you’ll want to read this.
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I didn’t get a chance to write last week, but hearty congratulations to another student on their first solo.
Every student pilot is told early on in their flight training something like “pitch plus power equals performance” or “attitude plus power equals performance”.
I’VE BEEN WORKING with some students on two or three manoeuvres that all begin the same way…
TODAY WAS Anat’s first solo flight.
ANYONE FOLLOWING this blog will have noticed a few “first solo” announcements recently. There seems to be a seasonality about these things – none for a while then three come at once. But that got me to thinking about how you can tell a student is ready for a first solo flight. Here’s a checklist… Read more »
Hats off to my student Chan who made his first solo this past Sunday. I started teaching Chan in October last year. We had seven lessons taking us up to the new year, then for various reasons he took a break, which was involuntarily extended until we started flying again after the COVID hiatus. Four… Read more »
CONGRATULATIONS to my student Antoine who made his first solo flight since 2004 today in C-FLYO. Antoine holds a French PPL, and is working to receive a Canadian Pilot Licence too. Transport Canada asked him to fly five solo takeoffs and landings, which is what he and I have been working on – to brush… Read more »
WELL DONE to my student Ken, who today made his first solo, in FLYO at Billy Bishop. He flew a smooth circuit and made a great landing, and I have the video to prove it. Ken’s first flight at the controls of a powered airplane was in January, and today was his eleventh lesson. At… Read more »