For the first time this afternoon, I had someone in the plane taking video of me flying. I had taken my drummer friend and web designer Joel, who is staying with us for a few weeks, with me to my flight lesson this afternoon. Unbeknownst to me, he was taking photos and videos from the back seat. What a GREAT opportunity to actually SEE what one is doing right or wrong, from right in the plane!!! Totally have to find a way to do this in a 150, lol!
...is an interesting way to analyse skills and gaps. I've video'd myself teaching before, in a classroom, or when giving a workshop, and I've always found watching myself teach or a facilitate a very humbling experience, but one from which I learn a great deal (the camera doesn't lie!!)
For the first time this afternoon, I had someone in the plane taking video of me flying. I had taken my drummer friend and web designer Joel, who is staying with us for a few weeks, with me to my flight lesson this afternoon. Unbeknownst to me, he was taking photos and videos from the back seat. What a GREAT opportunity to actually SEE what one is doing right or wrong, from right in the plane!!! Totally have to find a way to do this in a 150, lol!
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The neat thing about a small airport is that you can get up close and personal to bigger planes sometimes. Here's a Westjet flight shortly after landing at the Ch'town Airport in Prince Edward Island... when we arrived, we stayed on a bit at the end, and the Captain let us into the cockpit to have a look-see and even a sit down; turns out the guy used to do some flight instructing at CYTZ about 15 years ago!
Lots of fun to see all the buttons, knobs and switches compared to the relatively few in the Cessna 150! Ahhhh, there is something quite thrilling about the airport, especially when one has a little insight into the inner workings of aviation. The teeny tiny bit of knowledge and understanding I’ve acquired since learning to fly these past months has vastly increased my appreciation of the elaborate taxiways and familiar hold short and take-off procedures as we prepare to leave YYZ behind this afternoon and head east to PEI for the long weekend. Although the take-off roll is not quite as exhilarating when one isn’t the person applying full throttle and pulling back on the control column, the whole process is nevertheless exciting, and now that I have experienced first-hand the amount of time it takes to climb out in the circuit in a Cessna 150, I am amazed at how quickly we are soaring above the city and moving into pastures beyond the neatly ordered rows of streets in the suburbs outside of Toronto. In fact, already I am staring outside at the most incredible combination of cirrus wisps and cumulous puffs over the Lake.
PEI, here we come… (Or, really, here we ARE if you are reading this, for it means we have landed and I was successful in locating internet at the Ch’town Airport before heading out to St. Pete’s Harbour for a few days!) If so, you will want to visit this website: http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/publications/tp13014-menu-5527.htm Here you can download all manner of study guides and other references, along with a sample exam, including an answer key.
Happy Studying!! Wow -- just when you thought things couldn't get any busier with the constant Porter Traffic, Air Canada arrives on the scene at CYTZ!!! I snapped this shot outside of Hanger 4 this morning, just before my lesson , and then actually got to hear the pilot of this inaugural flight communicate with tower before taking off just after we had turned crosswind from 08! |
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AuthorVera C. Teschow is a certified teacher and mother of twin boys Alex and Simon. In addition to documenting her flying lessons, she also blogs about babies, teaching and life in general. Categories
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