I started this blog before my first flight lesson. Read on to see what I fly today.
I have been talking about flying for months. My girlfriend, Selina, never flew with me until last weekend. Finally she can't question anymore if I were a pilot at all! Check out this picture my mom took on the flight home. I believe this flight was a...
At the mountainous airport of Saanen you find all kind of people. There is the Glacier pilot with his Maule, working on his engine in the hangar. There is the unknown blonde celebrity on the co-pilot's seat of a PC-12, desperately waiting for her limousine....
During the grey fall days it is hard to believe that there's blue skies - anywhere above. One lucky Saturday the clouds opened up a bit to let us catch a bit of sunlight. Knowing there weren't any clouds in the alps, we headed toward them for a $100 fondue....
The Franklin engine roared to live and accompanied us with its distinctive galloping sound, while taxiing to runway two five. I gave the girls a quick passenger briefing and took off into the blue skies. Crossing the alps will always amaze me. :) The...
Neither have I, nevertheless the airport at Lake Zurich felt as if it was one. After a nice and stable approach over the water - which reminded me of flying floats at 500' and below - I touched down pretty much on the numbers and I didn't even need to...
Es macht noch mehr Spass, als ich mir erträumt hatte! =) Die Super Cub ist genial. Das Flugzeug ist viel anspruchsvoller zu fliegen, als die Cessna 152. Jedenfalls in Bezug auf die Längsstabilität. Man muss richtig mit den Füssen arbeiten, nur schon in...
Ich bin noch nicht so weit. Aber fast, immerhin. Heute flog ich mit David. Vor dem Flug waren aber noch all seine Fragen zu bewantworten. Er sagte, er ginge heute viel mehr ins Detail, als an der Prüfung, sodass es mir dann einfacher vorkommen werde....
Der lange Cross-Country in der vorletzten Nacht musste leider verschoben werden. Die Temperatur und der Taupunkt war zu nah beieinander. Das bedeutet, dass jeden Moment Nebel auftauchen könnte. In der Nacht sieht man diesen recht schlecht, weshalb das...
You come home from flying with a big grin on your face. You take off your shoes and - damn, what's that smell?! - you probably had your first solo. In my case, I completed the validation process from FAA to EASA by a first solo in EASA-land. Yay! Party...
Private Pilot Checkflights are very thoroughly planned by the students. A day before mine my examiner told me to plan a flight from Seattle over the mountains to Wenatchee. I spent a half day on this flight plan. I would follow a river and a highway towards...
Finally I went flying! It was two months ago when I decided to validate my FAA certificate. I was confident to do that during the week I came back from Canada. Obviously I was wrong. I will be working on it until January or so. But let's talk about the...
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...
Der Flug passte mir irgendwie von Anfang an nicht. Schlussendlich bin ich aber doch, mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht, aus dem Flugzeug gestiegen. Vor dem Flug wartete ich zwei Stunden auf besseres Wetter. Mein Flugplatz meldete offiziell eine Wolkendecke...
Yesterday my girlfriend asked if we would go to the airport's restaurant on the weekend. I wasn't sure if I heard right but I agreed without asking why. Anyhow, I really need to give her a bouquet of lilies for this one. :) My father called today and...
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...
Every pilot is part of the voice of General Aviation. The least I can do today is to re-blog a very good read from AOPA UK; click the link for the original article. There is also a commentary about this issue written by the president of Europe Air Sports...
Heute gab es nicht viel neues, ich musste alles gelernte weiter üben, damit ich fit für die Prüfung bin. Viele, viele Konfigurationen musste ich mir merken. Bei jeder Technik ist etwas anders, seien es die Landeklappen, die Trimmung oder die Motorleistung....
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...
In class delta airspace, does air traffic control ensure separation between IFR and VFR traffic? The answer is no. Curiously enough 75% of private pilots and 70% of airline transport pilots believe it is not their responsibility. A survey revealed this...
Das war mein dritter Tag im Wasserflugzeug und schon habe ich das Seaplane Rating! =) Ich flog auch heute wieder zwei Mal. Der erste Flug heute war der Feinschliff für die Prüfung. Amenda, eine Beaverpilotin etwas älter als ich, war meine Fluglehrerin....
Fast keine Zeit um übers Fliegen zu schreiben, vor lauter fliegen! 6.1 Stunden waren es heute. Ich war fast ständig gefordert und bin jetzt sehr, sehr müde. Jetzt aber doch noch ein Blogeintrag - in den nächsten Tagen werde ich genauso müde sein! Ein...
Gestern hatte ich meinen ersten Nachtflug. Zudem flog ich das erste Mal in einer Cessna 172S. Es war 21.30 als offiziell die Nacht begann. Mit der Taschenlampe gingen wir zum Flugzeug, testeten alle Lichter - innen und aussen. Das Flugzeug, eine brandneue...
The song in this video ran today on my last.fm radio. It reminded me of this video a former student of Island Coastal recorded - by the way Rosh, if you read this, thanks so much! I remember memories of the float training crystal clear when I hear that...
Nachdem ich mich in der letzten Flugstunde etwas mit Stalls anfreunden durfte, ging es heute ziemlich ab...Nach dem heutigen Flug war es mir den Rest vom Tag nur noch schwindlig. Zu allem Übel werde ich ab heute mit dem Fahrrad zum Flugplatz fahren müssen....
"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...
