CFI Adventure

IGI/First Ground School

flyingchampcar — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:17:25 +0000

The opportunity arose for me to teach a Instrument ground school. I jumped at the chance and took my IGI written and picked it up from the FSDO yesterday.

Today was the first day of class. It went well for my first day as a teacher. I enjoyed it. Instrument stuff is not my strong point in my flying career. So this will help me as much as my students. I just hope I can do a good job and I hope they can get their monies worth from my ground.

Commerical Single Engine Add-On Checkride

flyingchampcar — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:56:36 +0000

Completed!

Ride went really well. This was the first checkride that I was not nervous for and I didn’t study at all. I wanted to test myself a bit.

The Oral lasted about a hour with the usual first 20 minutes of going over the 80710, ID’s, logbooks, and chit chatting. Talked about P-factor, Carb Ice, Props and some performance stuff. Had to wait a hour for my airplane so I had a bunch of time to think what I was going to screw up. Did a Soft Field take off and out to the practice area. Started off with Chandells which where good. Next some steep turns at which my altimeter hand didn’t budge which the examiner commented on. He also commented alot about how much he liked my Lazy Eights, he said ” you know those where really nice.” Emergency decent fallowed by Eights on Pylons then it was back to the airport. I did a soft field, flapless. and power off landing and that was it.

I felt that this was by far my best check ride, it was just fun.

Now its time to transition to the Right Seat for my MEI flying.

Commercial Single Engine Add-On

flyingchampcar — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:15:47 +0000

My Commercial Multi check ride went really well despite being WAY to nervous about it. I have been really lucky with examiners, I have had all great examiners.

I’ve struggled a bit with the single engine maneuvers, specially with staying coordinated. I have my check ride in a few days, I’m not nervous about it cause I know the DPE. But I also feel that I have a lot of room for improvement on my maneuvers. Guess I’ll just have to let the examiner be the judge. My current times are 247 TT with 41 Multi.

Welcome! About myself

flyingchampcar — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:50:55 +0000

I started flying back in 2002 when I was 16 out of Rochester, NY. My first flying experience was a demo flight in a 150. It was a windy day and the instructor said it might not be a good experience for me. Non sense I said and up we went. I remember the big smile on my face as we got bumped around and watching the crab angle of the airplane, at that point I knew flying was for me. I continued to fly there for about 7 hours but had problems getting my medical so I had to put my Private on hold.

About a year and a half later my medical had arrived and I was off to Embry-Riddle in Prescott, AZ. My first semester at college I got my Private at NorthAire flight school at KPRC. I idled for about a year and half flying maybe 6 hours until I started my Instrument. The IR was tough for me, it didn’ come natural to me and I just was not having fun, so I put that on hold.

My junior year in college I found my self not knowing where I was going, confuse, and just not enjoying my self. I decided to goto AirSafety Flight Academy in Glendale, AZ to become a professional pilot. So I left Prescott for Phoenix in May of 2006 with my Private and 62 hours under my belt.

I made it through my IR in the Cirrus but it was not easy for me. Instrument flying to this day is still just not my cup of tea. It took me about 8 months to build my time up to 250 and to learn the twin for my Commercial. I got my initial Commercial Multi in May of 2007.

I have completed my MEI Ground school and I have my Commercial Single Add on check ride in a few days. I can not wait to become a CFI, instructing is something that I really want to do.