Every student pilot learns what to do if they discover a problem with an airplane they’ve flown or are about to fly – they write the defect in the journey log, and then – the airplane is grounded until an Aviation Maintenance Engineer fixes the defect and signs a release to say the aircraft is returned to service. Right? Well…
A little bit of good news recently: my student Jay made his first solo flight a little while ago, and I didn’t write about it yet.
One of the secrets of flight training is that a lot of people who start training never get to finish it. In one sense it’s a secret, in that you don’t read or hear about it. On the other hand, a bit of thought should persuade you that it’s entirely human and to be expected.
A milestone was reached …
PILOTS AND Students will all know that an aerodrome with weather reporting publishes terminal conditions called a METAR every hour, giving information including wind speed, ground visibility, cloud ceiling, temperature and dewpoint and altimeter setting. But the weather can change significantly over the course of an hour and if it does a “SPECI” is a… Read more »
Happy New Year to everyone…
ANOTHER milestone for another great student – we wish congratulations to Carlos on his first solo quite recently. Carlos has been Ivan’s student all the way from when he started back in June, and his solo was on his twelfth lesson, and eighteenth flight, when he took to the skies alone, for the first time…. Read more »
It has been a few months since I wrote about crosswind takeoffs and landings and the correct control inputs, so I guess it’s time for a reminder …
The compass deviation card in your airplane is the little label stuck somewhere near your magnetic compass that tells you …
This is a short post about some thoughts from a flight yesterday. I was talking a new student – actually someone on their very first flight in a small airplane – through a descent to land…