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Flight #6: Ground Reference Maneuvers

Posted by Mike on May 20th, 2005

Flight #6: 5/8/2005, 1.3 hours
Thankfully, I wasn’t ground shy today and we were able to get down low for some ground reference maneuvers. These are meant to develop skills with dealing with the wind, and to improve my ability to fly a good traffic pattern around airports.
The first maneuver, a rectangular course, is meant to [...]

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Flight #5: “Its not that I’m afraid of heights, I’m just afraid of the ground!”

Posted by Mike on May 20th, 2005

Sorry about how long it took me to update my blog, but here’s flight #5
Flight #5: 4/30/2005, 1.5 hours
This was my first lesson with Chase, my new CFI. We didn’t really cover a lot of new stuff, but we reviewed the material I covered in the previous lesson. We spent some more time on stalls [...]

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