Posts Tagged ‘PIC’

V1 Abort!

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Aircraft: C172
Registration: C-GQUO

I have done a couple of flights that I need to blog about still but this one was of particular interest to me and therefore I’ll do this a bit out of sequence.  If you see some other flights pop up on your RSS feed it’s true,  I backdated them.  

So the day was perfect.  Clear skies, cold air and the aircraft was ready with half tanks for my heavy load.  After last week’s flights which were perfect in clear air and in QQV I was confident that todays flight would be great.  I had been keeping my flights pretty tame with my first few passengers. They were short and more or less involved flying outbound for 10 minutes or so, performing a very shallow turn then returning for landing.  

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Flying with Friends

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I am trying something new with this posting.  Video finally makes it to my blog!  This is a video of the landing I made while flying with my friends this weekend.  It was both of their second time in a small aircraft and the weather was excellent.  I hope you like the video!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NX6LlvXe5o

Pilot in Command

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Happy Couple

Aircraft: C172
Registration: C-GYWN
Dual Time: 0.0 Total: 52.1
PIC Time: 0.9 Total: 18.9

METAR CYND 281600Z 31007KT 15SM SKC M17/M25 A3053 RMK SLP345=

If you were to fly for the first time as PIC with your wife on board, you would BEG for a day like today.  Take a look at that METAR!    Today was my day.  Rica had an appointment to have her hair done this morning so I took the opportunity to go to the club and have Simon sign off on my paperwork.  (For any prospective flight test candidates you didn’t hear it from me but Simon loves a small tea from Tim Horton’s accompanied by a chocolate chip muffin.)  I brought a medium!  

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The First Ride

Friday, February 27th, 2009

I need to stop fretting.  Tomorrow is the day I will go to the club,  obtain my newly signed Private Pilot License and then fly my very first passenger carrying flight!  Am I excited?  You bet I am, but I’m also a bit anxious. Oh yes, that old game…

Tomorrow I am booked to fly a good aircraft, C-GYWN and I am taking up my wife.  She has flown with me before on many occasions but always in the back seat and always with another PIC on board.  That all goes away tomorrow.  

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Canada’s Newest Pilot!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Well sort of.  I hate to seem as if I have blogfaded and headed on to greener pastures.  It’s not true.  In fact I have been thinking a lot about the blog and just have been entirely wound up with the wedding and flying to get any writing done.   Well that is ok, because today, I effing PASSED!!  I took my flight test this morning and passed the test!  I still cannot believe the words.  Of course there is still a bit to do,  and I will get back to you all on that but I wanted to share this huge moment with you now.  

Stay tuned for the deep down version coming shortly……..