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Day 27 - Monday October 27th
Ah yet another day of private ground school, but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer. It's also good to know that this is the longest ground school we will have to endure until CFI (for those who opt to do it) Today we studied about federal airspace which really seems a bit of a rehash on the FARs we learn't before.
Day 28 - Tuesday October 28th
Woh hoo, last day of ground school! After 3 and a bit weeks, over 66hrs of class time it's good that it's coming to an end. Today we got to put all our knowledge together to figure out some flight planning, which after all is what all this stuff we've been learning has been leading too.
Had another flight this evening, we departed about 6pm, before we came off daylight savings it was still light at this time but it was dark this time so I got to log the whole 1.5hrs as night, even though technically all the pre-solo flights are suposed to be day. We did a lot of touch and gos and I think the airport and rwys are much easier to see at night all lit up than they are durring the day. I found you really need to watch your glideslope cause at night you can't see where all the trees are! Also did some simuluated IFR flying with the goggles, it was kinda cool doing it at night cause then you REALLY can't see anything, espically since we were mostly flying over feilds which are pitch black at night. After 5 mins or so of turns, climbs etc I took them off, and had no idea where I was, lol Plus it was kinda nice at that hour cause it wasn't much traffic around, just a flightsafety citation doing approaches.
Did a bit more reading before bed, but tommow's going to be study study study!
Day 29 - Wednesday October 29th
Ah, a free day to study, no class or flying today, it kinda felt like the weekend, did some shopping and went through all of the questions we needed to do for practice. We also got a new room mate today, he's coming in the private audit class so by the time he finishs that we should all be on the same level (they generally try to put people of the same level together) and be able to study together. Got a flight tommarow morning then the test in the afternoon so I'll need to get most my study done today, I'm feeling fairly confident, I still got 85% on my test run, it's mainly the inconsistancies in weather reporting methods that are getting to me, ie some use AGL, others MSL, and having the rwys in mag heading and wind in true heading seems kinda stupid to me. but oh well. Oh and tommarow is my last flight before my checkride...eeep! I feel a lot more confortable after my last flight and after talking to someone who did it recently, he said it's nothing major, they just wanna be sure you can do a circuit safely, it;s not like they're setting me loose just yet!
I'll probably report on sunday on all the goings on, till then.
Ah yet another day of private ground school, but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer. It's also good to know that this is the longest ground school we will have to endure until CFI (for those who opt to do it) Today we studied about federal airspace which really seems a bit of a rehash on the FARs we learn't before.
Day 28 - Tuesday October 28th
Woh hoo, last day of ground school! After 3 and a bit weeks, over 66hrs of class time it's good that it's coming to an end. Today we got to put all our knowledge together to figure out some flight planning, which after all is what all this stuff we've been learning has been leading too.
Had another flight this evening, we departed about 6pm, before we came off daylight savings it was still light at this time but it was dark this time so I got to log the whole 1.5hrs as night, even though technically all the pre-solo flights are suposed to be day. We did a lot of touch and gos and I think the airport and rwys are much easier to see at night all lit up than they are durring the day. I found you really need to watch your glideslope cause at night you can't see where all the trees are! Also did some simuluated IFR flying with the goggles, it was kinda cool doing it at night cause then you REALLY can't see anything, espically since we were mostly flying over feilds which are pitch black at night. After 5 mins or so of turns, climbs etc I took them off, and had no idea where I was, lol Plus it was kinda nice at that hour cause it wasn't much traffic around, just a flightsafety citation doing approaches.
Did a bit more reading before bed, but tommow's going to be study study study!
Day 29 - Wednesday October 29th
Ah, a free day to study, no class or flying today, it kinda felt like the weekend, did some shopping and went through all of the questions we needed to do for practice. We also got a new room mate today, he's coming in the private audit class so by the time he finishs that we should all be on the same level (they generally try to put people of the same level together) and be able to study together. Got a flight tommarow morning then the test in the afternoon so I'll need to get most my study done today, I'm feeling fairly confident, I still got 85% on my test run, it's mainly the inconsistancies in weather reporting methods that are getting to me, ie some use AGL, others MSL, and having the rwys in mag heading and wind in true heading seems kinda stupid to me. but oh well. Oh and tommarow is my last flight before my checkride...eeep! I feel a lot more confortable after my last flight and after talking to someone who did it recently, he said it's nothing major, they just wanna be sure you can do a circuit safely, it;s not like they're setting me loose just yet!
I'll probably report on sunday on all the goings on, till then.