I started this blog before my first flight lesson. Read on to see what I fly today.
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I became an American during the last months. Everything went fast. Now I'm back in Switzerland and I almost feel stuck. When I walked in at the flight school in Seattle they didn't know about me. Their e-mails got lost. No worries - the chief instructor...
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Wow, I flew 50 hours on floats. I am so happy my smile goes all around my head! I spent more time on floats than on wheels. My total time is 102.2 hours and in 150 hours I'm gonna have my first job! Yay! The only problem is now my lack of money. On my...
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Tons of landings again. 3.5 hours nonstop up and down. During the last four flights I did more than one hundred landings. That's totally crazy. My landings became pretty good now but I still didn't like most of them. Tom's trick is to fly a perfect arc...
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Some more pictures! I'm so tired after three hours of training... My instructor started now with emergency drills and he sets me a bit more under pressure. Or maybe I set myself more under pressure. Anyways here some pictures of a sandy beach at Pitt...
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After seven hours intensive training I am not sure how many landings I actually did today. I wrote 60 into my logbook for the last two flights. That's crazy. There wasn't much more to do in this weather today. Sometimes I had to avoid clouds at 500 feet...
Post lesenThe airplane is repaired, I am well rested and ready to shoot hundreds of landings. Tom's plan is to give me some basic seaplane instruction. We're going to fly about 6 hours tomorrow. The last days were great to learn some things about aircraft maintenance....
Post lesenWe hopped from wave to wave and I struggled to keep the planing attitude of the airplane. "Higher, lower, make small changes, higher, too high, there we go.", Tom was permanently talking to me until we got airborne. The wind was strong and the takeoff...
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I had a day off. I flew seven days in a row up to six hours a day. I slept in this morning and Tom had a fishing patrol at ten anyways. He came back and told me he gives me a brake now. He meant it was good I had a hard week. As a pilot you have to work...
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"Victoria Harbour it's floatplane Golf Kilo November Hotel. We're 10 miles to the west and we'll follow the shoreline at one thousand five hundred for Elk Lake and Shawnigan Lake." We flew around Victoria! I love the city. I went there with my girlfriend...
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I was tired tonight after six hours of flying. Instead of trying to learn I surfed the internet. I found some neat videos on youtube of other guys after their first solo. And I realized - I know I'm late - that I am a pilot. Wow, what a feeling. My passion...
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