The Oakland County International Airport Open House was held on August 13 and I took some pictures of the planes there with my phone. They came out pretty good. Most of them. I'll put them up later. The biggest thrill for me was seeing an A-10 tank killer fly right over my head and also fly right by me about 20 feet above Runway 27, which was 100 feet away. Talk about loud!
In learning to fly news, I've made an appointment with my new school to get paperwork done and to take a lesson with my new instructor who came recomemded to me by her own mother who also is a pilot. I'm looking forward to getting up in the air again and anxious about starting back up.
I've also played the new Microsoft Flight Simulator X demo that hit the web recently and all I can say is WOW! I'm definately going to be working in upgrades to my desktop computer. Really nice though. You can find a writeup about it at www.gamespot.com. TTFN.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Monthly Update
Okay, I certainly didn't mean for this to take quite so long. However, things happen. Lot's of things have happened this month. For example..... For the month of July, I flew a total of 1.6 hours. That's it. Not very good for a guy who is learning to fly and I probably lost what I gained from those sessions. My last lesson on July 23rd was pretty good though. I held the centerline when I taxied, something which has, at least to this point, been tough for me to do. I'd be like a drunken sailor. All over the taxiway. My new instructor was quite impressed. I like him but there's something else I need to do, more on that in a bit. I also did most of the radio work . Which after the previous lesson where I was doing a lot of stammering and trying to remember what to say. Now granted, I'm a ham radio operator and I speak on the radio a lot and not prone to "mic fright" but there's a difference. When I'm using my ham radio skills, it's socially. Except for the rare check-in to a traffic net, I don't use my skills for communication, per se. When you're in a plane, there's not a lot of socializing going on.
I'm also a member of AOPA's Project Pilot. My Mentor's name is Kevin. He's a private pilot with Single and Multi-engine endorsements and certified in Commercial and IFR operations. He's working on his instruction certification and is almost done with it. He's a nice guy and is pretty knowledgeable. He helped me make a decision fairly recently.
The decision is this. I like Tradewinds and my new instructor, but they're expensive. I'm paying $103.00 an hour for a C172 (only a couple of years old) plus $9.95 an hour fuel surcharge plus $40 an hour for instruction. That total is $152.95 an hour. 2 hours is $305.90. For that same amount of money, at Flight 101, I can get 3.2 hours of instruction. A big difference in cost. So I'm switching probably next week or so to that school. Sure the planes are older but it's going to cost me much less. And planes really don't change that much.
For those who are keeping track. 6.6 hours total time in the plane - 7 Landings.
I'm also a member of AOPA's Project Pilot. My Mentor's name is Kevin. He's a private pilot with Single and Multi-engine endorsements and certified in Commercial and IFR operations. He's working on his instruction certification and is almost done with it. He's a nice guy and is pretty knowledgeable. He helped me make a decision fairly recently.
The decision is this. I like Tradewinds and my new instructor, but they're expensive. I'm paying $103.00 an hour for a C172 (only a couple of years old) plus $9.95 an hour fuel surcharge plus $40 an hour for instruction. That total is $152.95 an hour. 2 hours is $305.90. For that same amount of money, at Flight 101, I can get 3.2 hours of instruction. A big difference in cost. So I'm switching probably next week or so to that school. Sure the planes are older but it's going to cost me much less. And planes really don't change that much.
For those who are keeping track. 6.6 hours total time in the plane - 7 Landings.
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