Behind The Yoke

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Missing the Skies

Published May 31st, 2008 in Flight Time, General Aviation, Random musings | No Comments »

Wow - I haven’t posted in a while. Been very busy working on starting a business and getting married. Yay! Finally! With that being said, my leisure time for the last two months was stretched thin.

Its time to get on with the second chapter of my life. Time for harder work. Hard work comes rewards and rewards for me means flight lessons. With gas being so expensive now its literally impossible for me to afford flying. My father-in-law and I are going flying on Wed or Thurs. It’ll be awesome to be in the skies in the ole Twin Commanche again. Very much looking forward to the day when I can be in the left seat.

On a different note…if you’ve haven’t noticed I’m kinda of a freak about SR-71’s. I was very excited to stumble upon this guy who builds stuff from actual SR-71 parts. Way cool! 

Flight Time in Piper PA-30 out of AHN

Published November 11th, 2007 in Flight Time | No Comments »

Friday afternoon I took control of the yoke for about 30 minutes of in a Piper PA-30 Comanche with my girlfriends father. Did about a 15 minute pre-flight, taxied out and we were off! During the flight he taught me how to trim the plane (adjusting the trim tab on the elevator) so that you’re not constantly adding pressure to the yoke making your arms fatigue quicker. It amazed me how little pressure is required once you do this. Did some navigation, some 30 degree turn maneuvers and plenty of sight seeing. I’m totally hooked. I was totally engaged the whole time I was in the air.

The desire is getting stronger and stronger to get my pilots certificate. My training should start pretty soon. I’ve decided that I’ll do my training locally out of AHN with an independent flight instructor. Makes much more sense to me to do it this way since I’m not to keen on getting instruction from young lads just trying to build time for the majors.