Today I had a flight scheduled with my instructor to fly to an airport in midwest florida for a cross country instrument flight. But I had to cancel that because I got really sick this morning and I don't have a voice. But my amazing girlfriend came over and helped me today:)
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Feb 26
the past couple of days I've done a lot more studying than flying. As I have said before the flight school gives me a book of DVDs and it has helpe me tremendously. the instructors in the dvd takes the class to the skies, doing tutorials in midair. This benefits everyone because they show you in real time what to do in certain situations instead of showing in a classroom on a whiteboard.
Friday, February 25, 2011
These past couple of days I haven't been able to do as much flying as I originally would have liked to do because of time constraints with baseball practice everyday. So in its replacement I have been studying with these DVD's that the flight school has given me. Although it isn't very fun I am learning a lot of valuable information pertaining to instrument flying.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Tuesday February8
Today Scott and I took the plane up and he showed me how to control the airplane without my attitude indicator and heading indicator. I also learned how to recover from unusual flight attitudes even when my attitude indicator fails. and in the efent that an unusual atttitude gets me into a stall, I'll know how to recover from the stall using both full and partial panel.
So up to now I know how to recognize both nose high and now low unusual flight attitudes and recover to staight and level altitude flight using power, pitch and bank in the correct order. I now know how to control the plane with the loss of your altitude indicator and heading indicator by maintaining the specifid rate of descent or clim within 150 feet per minute.
Today Scott and I took the plane up and he showed me how to control the airplane without my attitude indicator and heading indicator. I also learned how to recover from unusual flight attitudes even when my attitude indicator fails. and in the efent that an unusual atttitude gets me into a stall, I'll know how to recover from the stall using both full and partial panel.
So up to now I know how to recognize both nose high and now low unusual flight attitudes and recover to staight and level altitude flight using power, pitch and bank in the correct order. I now know how to control the plane with the loss of your altitude indicator and heading indicator by maintaining the specifid rate of descent or clim within 150 feet per minute.
Friday February 4th
Today I learned how weather can affect my IFR flight. Scott taught me the causes of various wether conditions, frontal systems, and hazardous weather phenomena. I also learned how to recognize critical weather situations when I see them from the ground and in the air, so I can plan to avoid them.
Today I learned how weather can affect my IFR flight. Scott taught me the causes of various wether conditions, frontal systems, and hazardous weather phenomena. I also learned how to recognize critical weather situations when I see them from the ground and in the air, so I can plan to avoid them.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Saturday January 30
Today me and scott used the simulator instead of going flying. so he showed me how to use a ground-based VOR station that gives me useful navigation information in the cockpit. I also did more turning, including flying at a faster airspeed and learning how to use the magnectic compass and a clock when my heading indicator fails.
Today me and scott used the simulator instead of going flying. so he showed me how to use a ground-based VOR station that gives me useful navigation information in the cockpit. I also did more turning, including flying at a faster airspeed and learning how to use the magnectic compass and a clock when my heading indicator fails.
Friday January 28
Today my instructor and I took one of the flight school's planes, tookoff and headed to the training area which is just west of US 27.. in aviation there are certain sections that are made just for flight training and usually these sections are over non populated flat areas (like the everglades). So on our flight today, my instructor (Scott) gave me a pair of glasses that do not let me see outside, I can only see the instruments. the common name for these glasses is "the hood". so I learned how to fly straight and level and we did turns, climbs, and descents solely by instruments.
Today my instructor and I took one of the flight school's planes, tookoff and headed to the training area which is just west of US 27.. in aviation there are certain sections that are made just for flight training and usually these sections are over non populated flat areas (like the everglades). So on our flight today, my instructor (Scott) gave me a pair of glasses that do not let me see outside, I can only see the instruments. the common name for these glasses is "the hood". so I learned how to fly straight and level and we did turns, climbs, and descents solely by instruments.
Thursday January 27
Today at the flight school I learned about which of my sensory systems deceive me when im flying in the clouds, and which I can rely on. It really was not as hard as I thought it would be to control the airplanes using just instruments when I cant see the usual outside references.
Today at the flight school I learned about which of my sensory systems deceive me when im flying in the clouds, and which I can rely on. It really was not as hard as I thought it would be to control the airplanes using just instruments when I cant see the usual outside references.
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