Category Archives: Training

Money

Posted on January 26, 2006 by Colin Summers

There is an aviation joke: What makes an airplane fly? And the person being asked (usually a student pilot) tosses out all sorts of correct answers about airfoils, the Bernoulli effect, lift, and so on. The joke answer is: Money. … Continue reading →

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Bounce Number Two: Stay Ahead of the Plane

Posted on December 3, 2005 by stingraydoctor

Colin and I strapped in again on Thursday for an airport bounce. The aim was to really try out the Diamond DA20 as well as get some more new airports into the log book. We rented the plane from South … Continue reading →

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Hundredth Hour: Buffalo Burger Redux

Posted on November 27, 2005 by stingraydoctor

My brother and I are not two peas in a pod as pilots, or as people. We got into this at the same time and progressed equally smoothly, but we are quite different in temperament, and subtly different in the … Continue reading →

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First Parental Charter

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Colin Summers

Adam was having such fun flying Mom and Alex around that I had to figure out a way to take them up. The problem was that I didn’t really need to go anywhere. I don’t know where Adam is getting … Continue reading →

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Take offs are ho hum, landings however…

Posted on November 21, 2005 by stingraydoctor

I realized Sharalyn and my mom were not much worried about flying with me as I took off from the bleak and windy airport at Bullhead City. My passengers all have headsets and each headset has a mic. I can’t … Continue reading →

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The Landing

Posted on November 13, 2005 by Colin Summers

The hardest thing, by far, has been learning to land the airplane. Part of it is the pressure to do a good landing. When I flew by myself to three different airports in a little over four hours I was … Continue reading →

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The Culminating Event

Posted on November 6, 2005 by Colin Summers

As great as it was to fly all over the Los Angeles basin and out into the desert with Adam, yesterday was really the image in my head that brought me down to Santa Monica airport to begin with. I … Continue reading →

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Instrument Flying

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Colin Summers

There is tremendous satisfaction in flying precisely by instruments. Keeping the altitude at exactly four thousand five hundred feet as you glide along held in the fingertips of the atmosphere is an accomplishment. As it becomes more and more automatic, … Continue reading →

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Third German Flight Experience

Posted on October 29, 2005 by stingraydoctor

This is the last of the Germany flight posts and while the airplane was conventional all the rest of the flight was not. When I returned from flying the Katana my host at the Max Planck noticed I was beaming … Continue reading →

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But for an English lesson… grounded

Posted on October 24, 2005 by stingraydoctor

When I finally figured out how to find the smaller airports in the Stuttgart area I began shamelessly emailing flying clubs asking if I might take a ride in one of their planes. I emailed several glider clubs and one … Continue reading →

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