When you get in your small airplane in Canada to go flying there are a bunch of requirements that it has to meet in order for the flight to be legal. The rules are scattered through the Canadian Aviation Regulations, so I thought it might be useful to gather together as many of them as… Read more »
I’ve let myself get behind on posting student news in recent weeks – and this is me starting to catch up.
All recent student pilots will be familiar with the difficulties of the dreaded checklist – that innocuous spiral-bound booklet or laminated sheet of terse instructions and checks whose contents torture and haunt the start of every flight…
Every so often I get an email or phone call from a happy family member who wants their young one to get a PPL or recreational pilot permit…
Another student milestone reached…
Flying circuits this Friday with a student at CYTZ, I noticed an interesting phenomenon – that our progress on the downwind leg seemed unusually slow. We had a lot of time to level off from the climb out, pick a distant landmark to help fly a straight leg, contact ATC and ask for a touch-and-go,… Read more »
Some years ago, flight crews on at least the largest airplanes had five members, each one of whom would have a full-time rôle to fill during the flight and without each of whom being present some important things wouldn’t get done.
My colleague Ivan was prepping a student for their PPL flight test and he asked me if I knew a good online resource to help explain what effects moving the centre of gravity of an airplane has on its flight characteristics.
More milestones have been afoot for Ivan and my wonderful students Ilinca, and Craig – both of whom recently made their first solo flights in FLYO. We and they are all looking forward to them passing their PPL flight tests!
Happy news for my recent student Matt, who is now in possession of a shiny new Aviation Document Booklet…