It is true… a siesta… hiatus… break… is being taken from flying lessons.. Would you like to hear my logic behind it? Of course you would.
Basically it all comes down to financial reason. I am coming close to the end of my full time Internship in which I will be going back to [...]

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Arriving at Lunken as the sun was dipping past the horizon, it was a strange feeling… Usually I’m leaving the airport at this time, not just getting here. Tonight, we start night flight with a nighttime cross-country… and I don’t think anything more could have decided otherwise for us.
During preflight we were checking lights [...]

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I showed up to Lunken today with my flight plan prepared only to find out that there were slight changes in plans…. well, major changes in plans…. complete changes in plans.
Not only were we changing locations of our cross country, but we were going to be flying a four-seater Piper Cherokee with a passenger in [...]

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Yesterday was a gorgeous day. I had such a fun time flying!
If you normally follow my flight lessons, you have probably noticed an absence in blogs. Yesterday I went up for the first time in about two weeks. Between iffy weather last week and being sick, I just never got the chance [...]

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I went up solo today. Flew about 25 miles southeast to Meldahl Lock and Dam, did some maneuvers and toyed around for a little bit. I did one practice stall, but the stall horn wasn’t working. So when I started falling out of the sky I corrected fine and decided to head [...]

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