It’s been a while, a lot of things have happened in my flying career. First and foremost: <p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pFI6qb3eLMKAC9Enpmz-Eg"><img …

I headed up to Hamilton airport today for my 11th flight lesson. Seeing as how I don’t have a car these days, I took the Hamilton Street Railway (HSR). Getting to the airport on the HSR is a bit of an adventure. You see, I live in the west end of Hamilton so I have to take a bus into downtown, where I transfer to …

Today I had my tenth flight lesson at Peninsulair in which I got to practice steep turns and recovering from spiral dives. Our plane today was FTDS which is really nice because the trim is in the ceiling. Here’s FTDS, click the image for the bigger version: {.aligncenter} Steep Turns A steep turn is a turn made …

Straight and Level flight Tuesday was my second flight lesson which consisted of getting the plane into and maintaining straight and level flight. The straight part means keeping a constant heading, while the level refers to maintaining a constant altitude. While the weather wasn’t exactly great at the time of my …

Attitudes and Movements + Taxiing and miscellaneous tidbits After a first, introductory flight at the end of May (which you can read about here) I finally had the right weather for my first actual flight lesson. The wind was calm, temperature around 24 degrees Celsius and clouds were nowhere in sight for the most part …

Saturday May 24th, 2008 will be a day that I will remember for a long time. It is the day I first went up in a small plane, a Piper Cherokee to be exact. It is the day I began my flight training. A few months ago I signed up for ground school at Toronto Airways. I had been thinking about it for a while, since my house …

Two months ago I began my flight training with Toronto Airways at Buttonville Airport (CYKZ). I guess “flight” training isn’t exactly correct since this was actually the ground school preceding the actual flying. Over the course of eight weeks, the course covered everything from the basics of flight, …

Flight has been quite the mystery to me for quite some time. I enjoy flying both as a passenger or pilot in command (while playing Microsoft Flight Simulator, of course). I’ve also purchased an E-flite Blade CX-2 RC helicopter so I could get my fix of RC flying. However this still didn’t “quench my …