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surroundedbyair: May 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Sunday, May 25, 2008. Flight Time or Flight Quality? At the university flying programs they measure flight experience in hours. Of course: you need 40 hours. To become a private pilot, 250 hours. To become a commercial pilot, 1500 hours. To become an airline transport pilot, 500 hours. Of turbine time in order to get a type rating in a simulator; hours, hours, hours. As windsor. And I wal...
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surroundedbyair: July 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Thursday, July 31, 2008. My flying club gives you a few minutes of free flight time as part of your monthly dues, and even though this week I have seen both the Pacific Ocean and Lake Huron, I hate to pass up free flying. It's the last day of the month.I just had to have that $100 hamburger. There's a good restaurant run by one of my former students at Twin Falls, ID. If you're going to c...
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surroundedbyair: September 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Sunday, September 28, 2008. The storm looked a lot closer while we taxied, and I told Dan "Let's tie it down before we do any debriefing." I took the picture above as we walked in. The Bonanza in the foreground was not tied down. Aha, I thought, a good chance to show my student how aviators, like sailors, take care of each other. I thought back to last summer when Landmark Aviation. The T...
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surroundedbyair: April 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Aircraft Owner Again (Please Cross Fingers). I sold my Taylorcraft BC-12D about two years ago, and it is finally time to buy another aircraft. While there are still a few details to check out, I am buying a Standard Jantar SZD-48 with two partners.that's right, a glider. Glider, at that. I like that one. Posted by Dr.ATP @ 2:30 PM. Links to this post. A local turb...
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surroundedbyair: August 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Thursday, August 28, 2008. One-on-one teaching is more satisfying. Take this evening: I was helping my 10-year-old son with his math homework, and for some reason there was something. A new glider student was having a lot of trouble flying formation with the tow plane. He was overcontrolling. We made wider and wider swings behind the poor bewildered tow pilot until I would have to...Almos...
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surroundedbyair: June 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Sunday, June 29, 2008. As it should be. Friday was one of those aviation days where everything goes right. The flight was just miserable, steady turbulence and lots of up-and-down drafts, so I had a big smile on my face when I landed. It was going to be a good soaring day. In a power airplane, you blast through the thermal, each one giving you a little slam. In a glider, you circle in...
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surroundedbyair: March 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Saturday, March 29, 2008. Smoke in the Cockpit (almost). We're still exanding his stall envelope. We did clearing turns and the first stall went pretty well, although he almost got a secondary stall. But it didn't smell. So Dennis has had more than the usual exposure to what the FAA calls "Aeronautical Decision Making": several instances of weather worse than advertised and a genuine "sys...
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surroundedbyair: October 2008
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Adventures of a guy in love with all kinds of flying. Gliders, turboprops, instructing in a 172, it's all fun for me. Sunday, October 26, 2008. One of the strange things about aviation is the non-uniformity of events. Excepting regulatory matters, the space between events is random. Take Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As a charter pilot I have been there three times. All in the same week, and for different customers! Hours of flight experience in the room. Fifty Thousand Hours! But the people I studied wit...
