Month: August 2004

On Wednesday, I flew from Norman, to Chikasha to Tulsa to Ponca City and back. 5.1 hours of flight. After much ado and discussion about the weather (rain likely, no thunderstorms for the area,) we set off around 10:30am. One of the legs of the flight had to be between two airports more than 100NM from each other. Norman and Tulsa is something like 96NM. So we flew west to Chickasha first. Originally, I was going to fly an NDB (non-directional bearing) approach into Chickasha, but the ADF (Automatic Direction Finder, it’s what receives the signal broadcast by an NDB)…

Well, when I got to the airport today, Zach said he really didn’t think flying would be too productive today, but I’d go if he wanted. He had just gotten back from a flight and said it was just miserable. Hot and really turbulent. It’s so windy, that OKC approach was unable to provide usefull vectors, and was so busy they were unable to let him fly practice approaches. His student wasn’t really able to fly any approaches. Zach said he’d fly with me if I really wanted to. I figured that if it was that miserable, and he really…

Zach and I flew up to Wiley Post today to drop someone off there. I filed my first IFR flight plan, and flew IFR up there. It was quite turbulent today, so I was having a hard time of it. First time flying an airplane in a couple of weeks, and today wasn’t an easy day to do it. I copied my IFR clearance down okay, but had a heck of a time reading it back. The controller reads you an endless string of things which until you get the hang of, is rather hard to elegantly write down and…