My Youtube Channel

Here is a link to the Youtube Channel I use for my Aviation related videos.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Pilot69047

First Flight Lesson in 2 months

At the end of the week, I'll be getting my first Flight lesson in over two months, my first flight of 2010, and my first time up with my new CFI. I'll be flying a Cessna 172E.

Night Flight

Well for the first time in a Month I got to fly. I was only a passenger, but it was still great to get to fly. It was my first Night Flight and I had a ton of fun.

It's also starting to look like I'll get to start back up lessons at the start of the new year. This time in a 1964 Cessna 172E. Should prove interesting as I've only flown a 1978 172N and a 78' Cessna 152.

All Flights Scrubbed...

Due to weather all of this weekend's Flights were Scrubbed. We had a ceiling of 100ft-600ft, and visibility of 1/2sm-6sm all weekend.

Returning to the Skys - Part 2

After taking a forced one month break from Flying I'm proud to announce that this weekend I'll be once again taking Flight. This time I will be getting Flight lessons through Civil Air Patrol.

Returning to the Skys - Part 1

In the very Near future I'll be returning to the Skys once more.
More details when it turns final (Pun Intended).

Flight Lesson:11-11-09

I did my first full lesson in the Skyhawk today. Had a real fun time flying in a slightly larger, faster Aircraft.

While preflighting the plane I went through the steps with my Mom and my Sister. Then me and the CFI got in the Skyhawk. Taxied down to Runway Three Five did the run up then took of and leveled off at 2,000ft. Then made a left turn to a heading of West, a turn to a heading of South followed. Then I put the Plane in to Slow Flight, then did a Power Off Stall. After I recovered from the Power Off stall we did two Power On stalls. After that we flew Straight and Level for a little while then my CFI pulled the power to idle and said "Ok your engine just died. What do you do?" So I immediately trimmed for 65Kts and picked a suitable landing field. Once it was obvious we would make the field we did a Go Around and leveled off at 1,000ft. Then we found a long straight Road and we did S-Turns across it. After that we headed back to the airport for some Touch and Goes. First one we did a Forward slip, then an Engine Out on the second one, then on the third and Last one we did a normal Landing. All the landings were pretty smooth.

Over all not to bad of a Lesson for my first time really getting to fly the Skyhawk.

I now have 30.8 Hours logged, but sadly this lesson will be my last for at least a few weeks as my Flight Funds have been depleted.

Till Next Time,
Dustin