This lesson last Wednesday was just review. We reviewed flight plans on the ground, then went up and reviewed maneuvers. I forgot how much I liked practicing maneuvers… especially steep turns. When you get all the G’s pushing down on you while you’re in a 45 degree bank for a 360 turn, its a little [...]

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Yesterday’s lesson was definitely a no go. First off, we were planning on just working on maneuvers, and winds were at 18 knots, gusting to 26 knots… those would have been rather difficult turns around a point. And on top of that we pushed over 90 degrees yesterday with lots of humidity… which means a [...]

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Quite the crazy lesson I had yesterday. We started out reviewing how to make flight plans and gathering weather information for about an hour and decided it was time to get up in the air. A slight change to the lesson this time was we went pretty far and I soloed. After leaving Lunken we [...]

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So yesterday evening was my first time flying in nine days… it was almost like meeting up with an old friend. I got to Lunken about 17:30 and talked with Gary for about an hour in ground school sort of deal. We went over writing up a flight plan both on paper and on the [...]

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So at first I was just going to solo today, but then I decided I didn’t feel quite comfortable with leaving the Lunken airspace by myself, so canceled the lesson. Sharon called me back a little later with news that they just hired a guy on and that he could do my lesson this afternoon [...]

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