Managed to squeeze in a 1.5 hour lesson after work and before it got dark this evening... and even saw a student solo for the first time. Yay!
SOOOOO good to be back at City after a prolonged absence; although I got to fly in PEI, and certainly met some interesting pilots, there is nothing quite like the take off and landing at the Island Airport in Toronto! Managed to squeeze in a 1.5 hour lesson after work and before it got dark this evening... and even saw a student solo for the first time. Yay!
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Another one of those perfect mornings for flying... calm, smooth air, nearly cloudless sky... BUT -- I am on my way to present at a conference rather than on my way to the airport. :(
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/08/19/standing-engagement-flight-school/#more-88370 Went for a daytime tower tour this morning at CYYG before heading off for the five-day drive back home to Toronto.... Figures the boys were more into the plane ride at the Haunted Mansion in Kensington later that afternoon than the tower visit before lunch! No matter! We adults enjoyed some banter with the tower guys as well as watching Jazz land from Montreal, and then a smaller plane take off before we headed back downstairs to commit to two wheels on the ground for the next week. GREAT time flying in PEI -- I'll miss this summer, and think of it often as I continue my flight studies back at CYTZ this fall/winter. Who knows, maybe by next summer I'll have my PPL and be a "real" pilot by the time I reconnect with my new aviation friends from out east?! Got to go for a tour of the tower at CYYG last night and watch my friend arrive by plane from there!! Westjet 222 was scheduled to arrive at 10:30 p.m. local time. We watched on the radar as they were handed off from Moncton, then snapped a pic as they broke through the clouds at CYYG and landed. Fun!
Although the tower there controls both CYYG and a small airport in Nova Scotia, things were fairly quiet at night. We'll be back on the next sunny day to watch some more action.... Big plans to study for my PPL exam floundered during my PEI adventures this summer, and were replaced with parenting, music cabin painting, drumming, napping, writing long emails to friends -- well, this part's okay -- FLYING with pilots on the island!!!
But this evening I finally sat down and had a wee glance at some of my old Ground School notes. And what a shock I got! Brilliant! Got to see radio nav in real life in a low stress situation this afternoon. Tom took me flying in the Beechcraft again, this time with the intent of practising some Nav stuff and demonstrating a few IFR things. (He noticed, no doubt, my pathetic nav skills last time we flew together, hehe... when the whole darned place is grass fields...!!!) Anyway, the first thing we looked at was the VOR indicator -- I had seen Korkka playing around with this in the 150 before, but suddenly it all came to life, as we tuned in the nav radio to a pre-set frequency which allowed us to pick up the CYYG VOR. We practised "flying the line" as well as "intercepting the radial" -- WOW! Who needs GPS? This is totally AWESOME!!! Next, it was time for Tom to show me the
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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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