Tag Archives: Solo Flight
Lesson 23: Long Solo Cross Country to Homer
Aircraft: C172 N52654 Flight Time: 3.2 hours Total Hours: 33.9 I’d been looking forward to my long cross country. In some ways, it’s the culmination of my flight instruction and the real test of my piloting skills. The requirement is to … Continue reading
Practicing Maneuvers
Aircraft: C172 N52654 Flight Time: 1.1 hours Total Hours: 30.7 With the weather not clear enough for my long cross country yesterday, I took 654 over to the practice area and brushed up on maneuvers. In preparation for my checkride, I’ll … Continue reading
Lesson 22: Solo Cross Country to Soldotna
Aircraft: C172 N52654 Flight Time: 2.0 hours Total Hours: 29.6 I’m approaching 30 hours now, and looking forward towards my private pilot checkride, which at the current pace, should be sometime in April. As I make each new entry in my … Continue reading
Lesson 20: Solo Cross Country to Talkeetna
Aircraft: C172 N52654 Flight Time: 2.2 hours Total Hours: 25.1 A high pressure system brought two days of nothing but clear blue skies to Southcentral Alaska. It was so clear that the current weather report called for 100 mile visibility over … Continue reading
Solo Touch and Go Practice
Aircraft: C172 N52654 Flight Time: .7 hours Total Hours: 18.4 At this stage in my flight training, I’m starting to take a close look at my progress and evaluate where I am in relationship to my lesson syllabus. Now that I’ve started to … Continue reading
Lesson 12: Solo Touch and Go’s
Aircraft: C172 N52654 Flight Time: 1.3 hours Total Hours: 13.2 I was thinking about how nice the weather was as I rode to Merrill for my next lesson, which I was expecting to be dual. When I walked in the door, … Continue reading