Month: September 2004

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…

I have time for things these days. I like having time. I don’t need to study just yet. Commercial ground school is simply a re-hash of private ground school. By that, I mean that my flight school puts the commercial students in the same ground school as the privates. It’s generally referred to simply as…

Well, I have an instrument rating. Yay! I didn’t finish it by the end of August, so the aforementioned happy dance won’t happen. But I’m still glad. The oral portion of the exam was only a little over an hour long. There’s an art to both the taking and administration of an oral exam. B,…

I flew on Tuesday, as a review flight since I hadn’t been called for my checkride yet. I still haven’t been called, so I flew again today, just to keep me current. So now I sit around and wait some more.