Yesterday I was confronted with a lot of chatter regarding the FAA and approved personal electronics. Most of the articles cite a post on NYT's blog Disruptions. The post itself seems to be largely speculative, but has set off a storm of chatter amongst the general media. Most of this chatter centers on the general... Read more »
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The Power of Headwinds
Depending on the phase of flight, a stiff headwind can hurt or it can really help. In cruise, you're hoping and praying that the wind doesn't fight you too much. You get too much headwind and you might as well be flying backward (maybe you are). That same wind on final approach is a completely... Read more »
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Landing Gear Failure? No Problem! | Technique Tuesday
So, you're flying along in your 727 and the time comes to put the gear down. Everything appears normal until the nose gear stays retracted. What do you do? If you're like the Iranian pilot in the video above, you follow all the troubleshooting procedures and then land without it. What's the best bet for... Read more »
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The Aviator's Bookshelf
Since I started flying, I've amassed quite a collection of aviation books. During this period of time, I've also been focusing on eliminating clutter and moving, so I have focused on value when building my little aviation library. In this post, I'll look at what's on my bookshelf and why. In the interest of full... Read more »
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Intercepting Radials and Short Days
Last lesson we had discussed a brief ground lesson to cover some things that the examiner had asked on a recent check ride. Due to scheduling issues, I had scheduled a shorter amount of time than I thought would be necessary to do any decent amount of flying. Naturally, I had assumed we would do... Read more »
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A Short Dual Lesson
The lesson culminated with a thoroughly normal landing which was excellent. It was another landing that really made me look good and really makes me feel bad about the terrible landings I had been making. After securing the plane and paying for the lesson, I received a bit more debriefing. As things stand right now, I'm looking to be done by end of year and that is a distinct possibility given the schedule we worked out.... Read more »
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After that little event, I opted to call Knoxville Approach (it was time anyway) and get started on my descent. They set me up for a base to 23R and I performed what seemed to me to be an exceptional descent and landing. It was a nice smooth descent of about 200 feet per minute that basically stopped when I greased the landing.... Read more »
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We went up and down 321 and then headed back to the airport, for at least one landing. The cool thing is that we overflew the fall festival. It looked pretty interesting from the air. I also found out later that my flight was seen. I made a very good landing, and we put the plane to bed.... Read more »
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Half and half
The radio chatter was coming so quickly, that I was afraid I would never be able to break in and request to come back in for landing. I just flew along the ridge and kept turning around to try and maintain a decent proximity to the airport and practice area. I made about 3 circuits of this pseudo holding pattern before I got a chance to request permission to head back in. ATC issued me a heading that was basically parallel to the ridge and I complied. After about 5 minutes and upon noticing that I was nearly to Six Mile, the controller broke in and let me know that I didn't have to stay on the heading and just to hold to the east of the field until further notice.... Read more »
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Scary Traffic Pattern Work
This time however, when I was cleared for the option, there was a fair amount of turbulence. The plane was really rocking. Then, right at the tail end of the downwind leg, a gigantic gust of wind hit the plane and I immediately noticed a significant drop in altitude (maybe a hundred feet). To make a long story short, I hit my head twice on the ceiling. Just after the second gust, the controller called to let me know that the wind was now gusting at 27 knots and I responded the only way I knew how, "Roger that..I'd like to make this one a full stop." They gave me a runway change and I put it down and taxied to the tie down.... Read more »
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Hello, my name is Matt Everett and as of 1/1/2010 I am a private pilot ASEL. I started this blog early in my training and used it primarily as a place to keep notes of my lessons. Since then it has grown to much more than that, but my main focus is still on aviation experiences.
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