So, Dad decided to cancel his telephone service. And ours along with it, without warning. It sort of gives Joanna a clean slate when it comes to resumes, since we know no one will be calling her about anything she’s sent out already! It looks like the call she got just before we lost telephone…
After all my fretting about not flying for a month, the flight was easy. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred, although Stillwater Regional is under crazy construction. Runway 17/35 used to be 6100ft, but they extended it on the north side to 7400ft. The extension is concrete whereas the original runway is asphalt, so it…
Scheduling flights in is proving to be a major headache. I haven’t flown in the month of October. I intended to take a week-long break, but it’s turning into permanent retirement. When I called my instructor on Wednesday morning, he said the earliest he could get me in was Friday at 4pm. It’s Friday around…
My instructor called me yesterday and told me that the only time he could get a plane for us a do a 100NM cross-c0untry was 6am. I’m not a big fan of morning. I got there at 6:30am and it was still dark. My instructor didn’t show up for another few minutes. We’d have had…
I finally got my first commercial flight lesson out of the way today. Nothing exciting or new, just a review of private maneuvers, mostly so my new instructor can see that I can, indeed, fly. Stalls, steep turns, slow flight, emergency procedures and a few landings. Picking a spot to pretend to land in is…