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Making a Kiwi Fly: And not a moment too soon
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Wednesday, October 29, 2014. And not a moment too soon. I went up in a Tecnam P2008 to get current again. When I opened the door I was greeted with a placard on the instrument panel stating that Vfe had been changed from 68 knots to 80 knots. You may remember I made comments about this when I first flew one. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. And not a moment too soon. Ziln NZ Airside ...
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Making a Kiwi Fly: As the silly season descends
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Thursday, December 18, 2014. As the silly season descends. Just a quick catch up. Three things I want to talk about. Chris has kindly given permission for me to link his quite exquisite photos, if you look carefully at the map above I have placed the approximate location they were taken in order. 1 Westbound looking towards Kawhia Harbour. 2 Interesting rock formation off the coast at 700' AGL and 123 knots.
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Making a Kiwi Fly: September 2014
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Thursday, September 18, 2014. We had the club competitions recently to determine who would represent the club at the regionals. I entered my favourite competition and the one I am the defending champ, the liferaft drop. What was different this year was that we were going to use a Piper Pa28 Cherokee 181 Archer for the drop rather than the tried and true 172M JGP. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Stories from the Sky.
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Making a Kiwi Fly: Cold n low
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Monday, July 27, 2015. The ATIS had a current temperature of 3 degrees C, a dew point of 2 degrees C and an air pressure reading of 1033mb. Compared with the ISA standard (15 degrees C and 1013mb) that's 12 degrees and 20mb better than ISA, so the magic density altitude formula. Third circuit was a normal one due to fellow club member and blogger Barry. That would be the 4th landing, as I slipped in a second gli...
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Making a Kiwi Fly: January 2014
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Wednesday, January 29, 2014. 1) Flight in the twin. 2) A long cross country. 3) Complete my PPL terrain awareness training. 5) Still looking for a ride in something cool. PS As a footnote I am about to tick over 200 hours total time and 100 hours PIC this year. 3) Yes - and a lot of fun it was too. Lets look forward to 2014:. 1) Flight in the twin (or the 180). 2) Pass my BFR. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Making a Kiwi Fly: July 2014
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Monday, July 21, 2014. After 45 minutes of coaxing all the ice off, I got the preflight done and we set about starting it up. The Archer 3 is always started on the left magneto only (don't ask me why, I don't know). After it turns over you press the button to engage the right magneto and set the throttle to maintain 1000rpm, which required a bit more than I thought because the engine was very cold. Some brief re...
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Making a Kiwi Fly: Now thats fast!
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Monday, May 11, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Rapidly approaching middle age Kiwi guy. In love with Susan. Owns house. 0 kids, 1 dog. Works for local University fixing computers. View my complete profile. Stories from the Sky. Confessions of an NZ PropellerHead. We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging…. Yet Another Flying Kiwi. 2008 Roundup - Late. New Years Resolution Flying Goals.
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Making a Kiwi Fly: March 2015
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Monday, March 02, 2015. This years competitions was held in Whitianga, just like it was when I competed in them 9 years ago. Oh why was I going if I wasn't competing? I got the ARFOR (area forecast) printed off, and it was pessimistic as usual:. VIZ: 30km, reducing to 6000m in SHRA, to 4000m in SHRA. WX: Few SHRA developing afternoon, isol SHRA over inland areas, clearing tonight. After getting all my gear stowe...
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Making a Kiwi Fly: June 2014
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Sunday, June 22, 2014. Sorry, been awol. I left you all hanging for the second part of my trip to Warbirds over Wanaka. I apologise profusely, but there are some mitigating circumstances. I haven't been flying much because money has been rather tight. Despite the financial constraints I've had to find money for a renewal of my Class II medical and a BFR. Probably. Would I like to fly down? Suggested I might try ...
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Making a Kiwi Fly: My favourite competition
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Making a Kiwi Fly. My flying story from never been in a light plane before to PPL and beyond! Thursday, September 18, 2014. We had the club competitions recently to determine who would represent the club at the regionals. I entered my favourite competition and the one I am the defending champ, the liferaft drop. What was different this year was that we were going to use a Piper Pa28 Cherokee 181 Archer for the drop rather than the tried and true 172M JGP. It horrified me to see it at first . Confessions ...
