Thursday, December 14, 2017

Instrument rated!

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Guess who fell down on the job of blogging about flights?  You know, life is busy with two elementary-aged boys and their activities and the...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Learning from failures, learning from mistakes

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Another canceled flight.  This time ultimately because of my oversight.  Here's what happened and what I learned. I was up at 5 thi...
Friday, December 09, 2016

Jepp I/C 5: maneuvers full/partial panel, compass and timed turns, plus ILS 35R

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We had a very cold but pleasant start to the morning, with 34 degrees and a 12kt crosswind.  I proved pretty much right off the bat that...

California flying, last flight

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Le sigh.  I made these notes and have kept myself so busy I never got back to write it all up!  Now I've forgotten a lot of the details,...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

IFR Operations: Two-way radio communications failure.

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That's AIM 6-4-1 (which quotes FAR 91.185 and adds).  As I was mulling over the consequences and procedures for electrical failure, I w...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

California flying, day 2

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(I started this post Tuesday evening and have been busy working, flying and mothering so it hasn't been finished until now!  Perhaps to...

That final "final" check

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As we sat in the run-up area before departing Watsonville (KWVI), I called NorCal on the radio to get the IFR clearance over to KSNS for th...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Homework: Ammeter discharge, ALT FLD breaker out

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From the 172R POH, Section 3: Emergency Procedures, Electrical Power Supply System Malfunctions: --------------------------------------...

Crosswinds, foggled unusual attitudes and stalls, mild in-flight failure

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Yesterday morning Mark and I had an early flight.  In the interest of getting caught up with the posts and sleep a bit (I still need to wri...
Monday, November 07, 2016

Learning is hard work, part 2!

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Oh my word.  I'm sitting in the hotel at 7:17 pm trying to scrape together the energy to continue sitting in this chair, typing.   ...

Learning is hard work!

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4.9 hours over two flights today, and I am both enthused and exhausted!  It was a pretty amazing day, crammed full of good information and ...