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First Flight

I had my first lesson. I'm flying out of Campbell Airport near Grayslake. Cardinal Aircraft Services rents out Piper Warrior II's for students. It's a low-wing plane. One pilot I know suggested I might...

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Being On the Ground Sucks

Second lesson was today. It was a little easier and a little harder. For some reason I was a little nervous before we started - well, and during, my shoulders are fairly tense. But I think that's...

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Number 3

Been delayed. Busy weekend. Last Wednesday was Flight Lesson #3. We did stalls. Take-off stalls and landing stalls. They weren't as stomach churning nor nerve fraying as I expected. They were actually...

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Hour 4

Today was a beautiful day to fly. It was a little bumpy around 2,000', but nothing that couldn't be managed. Today my CFI had me do the preflight check of the aircraft on my own. He was actually a...

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Lesson Number 5

Today's lesson was very much the same as yesterday's with one exception - the wind. I mentioned it being pretty strong yesterday. Well, today it was stronger and pretty much straight out of the south....

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Non-flight Lesson

I was grounded today due to weather. The visibility and cloud cover were iffy, and we might have pushed it to go up, but instead we did some ground schooling. It saved me $90 on plane rental, anyway,...

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Solo!!!!

I know I'm way overdue on updates. I'm sure no one (of the two or three that were before) is reading this anymore. But I soloed today!!!! I flew the plane all by myself. No instructor. No Autopilot....

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Rigga-frackin' Crosswinds!!!

I'm still smiling about that solo. Second supervised solo was yesterday. 2 out of 4 of the landings were good, 2 were a little hard, mostly due to some squirrely winds right above the threshold, but...

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More crosswinds. . . .

I still can't log that third supervised solo, but I did get to work on x-winds again today. Thanks to a thread over at studentpilot.com, they went a LOT better today. Well some of them did, 2 called...

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Fun Hop

Well, the weather cooperated somewhat by clearing up, but the winds started kicking up pretty good. My CFI hadn't called me by 11:45, though, so I headed out to the field. As I stepped into the FBO he...

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Crosswinds are FUN!

Ok, I was originally going to title this update, "X-winds AGAIN!?!" But since I had so much fun, I opted for a more positive title. A brief recap - I had my first two solos the last week in October,...

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The weather's great! Now what?

So I got to the airport today under clear blues skies and a SLIGHTLY gusty wind right down 27. I though it might have been a little windy for my 3rd supervised solo, but my CFI had mentioned getting...

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VOR Work

Finally, after a mechanical problem my last time out, then a week off for turkey day, I got back in the air today. It was a clear, sunny day, but boy was it windy! Running some errands about an hour...

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Plotting GPS Tracks (Was: How'd you do that???)

Updated 6/15/04. Important updates should be obvious. Unimportant ones shouldn't be. I get asked a lot about how I plotted my ground tracks from my flight lessons. I figured I'd copy the response here...

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Solo #3

Click for a larger image. Today when I got out to the airport, the sky was clear and there's was only the slightest whisper of a breeze. I was finally going to get to solo again, provided the plane...

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More VOR Work

Click for a larger image. Last Wednesday, I got to do VOR work again - wow, three flying days in a row! There were two noteworthy bits about this flight. First of all, after tracking in to the...

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My First Solo Solo

Click for a larger image. Listening to the morning news on Monday told me it wasn't going to be a good week for flying. Monday itself was decent, but I was feeling a bit crummy, so I didn't fly....

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GPS Plots Updated

The GPS Plots are up to date as of today. The filenames are stupid, but since I have links to them, it'll be a PITA to fix them. I could create a dulpicate folder, use good names in the new...

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Hoodwinked!

Click for a larger image. On 12/22/03, I did hood work with my instructor. As I think I mentioned before, the hood is like a huge-brimmed hat that keeps you from looking outside the airplane. The...

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Marginal VFR

Click for a larger image. On 12/23/03, the ceilings were 1,500' AGL, so we didn't do hood work again. Since we had to stay around 1,800' MSL to maintain the legal limit under the clouds, Brice had me...

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