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Baaaaaddd Day Training!!!
from wade
wrote 6 years 1 day ago
Those training days, eh. I can admit to this...I was trying so hard to learn how to fly in the begining that I couldn't seem to put what I was learning all in one box for the big picture. I was a scatter brain. The stalls went in one box, studying for written was in another, and the landings were in another. Well, my last dual flight my chief flight instructor said, "watch your airspeed or you will stall the plane your airspeed is most important. It was all rote learning until then! The peices fell togeather...So that's why on downwind with 10* of flaps shoot for 80 kts. ...turn base now 20* of flaps and 70 kts. ...turn final now 30* of flaps and shoot for 60 kts. hoped this helped. The c-152 is a super trainer!
Yesterday was my birthday, and I finally got ...
from wade
wrote 6 years 1 day ago
The shoes! I must add my two cents. I fly land planes in flip flops if I can. Im a light traveler. I know some are thinking what a bonehead. Most pedels feel really bulky to me. I like them because I can comfortly feel the rudders from the breaks . I know what I am pressing on. I don't want to touch down with the breaks on or ride the breaks the whole landing. I use the ball of my toes only for rudder and slide my whole foot up for braking when it is time to slow down with breaks IF NEEDED. Why wear out your tires and breaks if you can help it if saftey in not an issue at the time? As far as the inflight fire thing goes I would rather feel something on fire than to giving it extra time by not feeling it which will give it extra time to get bigger and smoke maybe. I would have more time to put it out. I would also have a better idea where it is coming from or what it is before my whole shoe is on fire as I then smell something burnig and the whole cockpit is up in smoke. Most fires start out small and the sooner detected the better. I also fly in shorts for those against flying in shorts. Gonna start my own show called the "naked pilot" soon. lol.
becoming a pilot
from wade
wrote 6 years 1 day ago
wingman, The begining of the airline path is choosing a school dedicated to flying and are a bit on the high dollar side because of the kind of aircraft you will train in. Some are very fast pasted for a even higher dollar. Then if you want to go to college after go to college to get a degree. If you are serious about flying in the airlines spend your loan money there first before the college degree. I don't have any experience with these types of schools but maybe someone here can help and please feel free to correct me if I maybe wrong with this advice. I just started a thread somewhat similar to this about the pathways. I called it "multi-crew license".
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