Tue Sep 19, 2017 11:59 pm
#1559789
I am about to start on the last page in my first log-book. my shiny new log-book is only 10 flights away.
It feels like a bit of an event in my flying career.
My first log book records just less than 500 hours. I have flown 17 different types, from C172 to CAP231ex.
I have flown to 44 different airfields.
When I started my log book I had already flown solo, in gliders, so I started trying to understand what all these instruments did in the C172 that I learned in.
My first power solo came on page 2 after 11 hours.
I qualified on page 4 after 38 hours. (I had some time off because of my gliding).
First aeros, 30 minutes on page 5
For these aeros I flew for the first time from what is now my home field, White Waltham, in a CAP 10. I felt sick for several days after a few simple loops, rolls and stall turns. I was done-in by a roll off the top.
This week (last page but one) I was flying knife-edge spins and outside loops from the top
My one and only zone infringement happened on page 6, pre-GPS days. I bust the B'ham zone
I was asked to phone ATC on landing, I was very nervous that they would take away this amazing gift that I had only just started to grasp. After they realised that I was a beginner and VERY aware of my mistake, they just told me to be more careful in future, so far I have.
I started learning aeros properly on page 11, in a T67.
I have approximately 80 hours in Chipmunks, 90 hours in a Yak 52, 90 hours in a Steen Skybolt, 100 hours in a Pitts and about 35 hours so far in my CAP.
Of my nearly 500 hours, about 220 of them mention aerobatics as part of the flight. I guess that I really am obsessed by turning the world upside down.
This little book records something very precious to me. It has captured, several times, the realization of my childhood dreams.
As a young boy I dreamt for flying. I dreamt of flying aerobatics. I dreamt of flying a Pitts.
I am now flying things that are beyond what I imagined as a boy, in an aeroplane that is better than I imagined too.
Flying is such a glorious thing! That little book tells the story of all this in a few untidy notes in a series of tiny boxes
It feels like a bit of an event in my flying career.
My first log book records just less than 500 hours. I have flown 17 different types, from C172 to CAP231ex.
I have flown to 44 different airfields.
When I started my log book I had already flown solo, in gliders, so I started trying to understand what all these instruments did in the C172 that I learned in.
My first power solo came on page 2 after 11 hours.
I qualified on page 4 after 38 hours. (I had some time off because of my gliding).
First aeros, 30 minutes on page 5
For these aeros I flew for the first time from what is now my home field, White Waltham, in a CAP 10. I felt sick for several days after a few simple loops, rolls and stall turns. I was done-in by a roll off the top.
This week (last page but one) I was flying knife-edge spins and outside loops from the top
My one and only zone infringement happened on page 6, pre-GPS days. I bust the B'ham zone
I was asked to phone ATC on landing, I was very nervous that they would take away this amazing gift that I had only just started to grasp. After they realised that I was a beginner and VERY aware of my mistake, they just told me to be more careful in future, so far I have.
I started learning aeros properly on page 11, in a T67.
I have approximately 80 hours in Chipmunks, 90 hours in a Yak 52, 90 hours in a Steen Skybolt, 100 hours in a Pitts and about 35 hours so far in my CAP.
Of my nearly 500 hours, about 220 of them mention aerobatics as part of the flight. I guess that I really am obsessed by turning the world upside down.
This little book records something very precious to me. It has captured, several times, the realization of my childhood dreams.
As a young boy I dreamt for flying. I dreamt of flying aerobatics. I dreamt of flying a Pitts.
I am now flying things that are beyond what I imagined as a boy, in an aeroplane that is better than I imagined too.
Flying is such a glorious thing! That little book tells the story of all this in a few untidy notes in a series of tiny boxes
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