On Saturday November 16, 2013, picked up Curtis to take him flying. He is looking into getting his pilots license, so really wanted to take him up for a flight to see a few different airfields, planes, etc. As much as you plan, weather can keep you from executing what you would like to actually do. Plan was to go down to Cambridge MD and eat at Kays for breakfast , as a fellow pilot friend recommended, (watch a few planes land while eating) however the weather to the south was all Instrument Flight rules. Alternate plan was to fly up to Sky Manor, NJ and eat at that restaurant, however the weather was supposed to be marginal and wasn't going to get better, so we flew a local flight, flew over Curtis's moms house in Middletown, flew over my house in Newark and did 2 touch and go landings at Cecil County Airport. (58M). The field was just sold at an auction a few months ago. Seems like a nice airfield. That is where I took my written exam for my Private Pilot license. First landing wasn't bad, used short field technique, approach speed was about 62 knots. There is a video tape of me flying the pattern complete with landing that I will be posting in the next few days. Third and final landing back at KILG was a greaser. Landed on 14 and was able to turn off at F3, which is really close to the Club Hangar. Was a great flight. Thanks everyone for reading!
Thanks to Curtis he got a nice picture of the club plane
View of the cockpit.
View looking down
Nice view of the C&D canal
Another view of the C&D canal
Yet another view, about 6sm of visibility that day.
Here are some pictures of my First Solo flight at KPNE. Rick Temple was my flight instructor. I can remember that they had me take off on Runway 15, which is a Runway at Northeast that isn't always used, so I had to remember how to taxi down there, which involved crossing a Runway which to a new pilot seems a little intimidating. I had to do 3 takeoffs and landings. I can remember that my brother came up with me and he was the one who took the pictures. The winds weren't too bad, maybe 6-8 kts. I had three good takeoffs and landings. Here are some pictures of Rick congratulating me. This was a very exciting time!!
Why do I fly? I enjoy the various challenges of the changing environment that the plane, wind, weather, traffic and different factors that factor into the safe outcome of a flight. I also enjoy helping other people. I found out about an organization called Angel Flight East, which is a non-profit organization that transports ill patients to needed treatment facilities. I decided to join the organization as a co-pilot. Once I receive my instrument rating, I will be able to transport patients as PIC. I performed one of these missions not too long ago. Here are some pictures. We were under an IFR (Instrument Flight Plan). Transported a mother and little girl to needed cancer treatment from WVA to CHOP in Philadelphia, PA.
This was one of the first flights I made after I received my ticket. I had to do some computer work and discovered that the flight would only take 45 mins vs a 3hr 30min drive. Both arrival and departure were uneventful, however this was the first actual short field landing and takeoff that I had performed. The runway here is 2,986ft with about 2400 usable. This flight was in the middle of the summer.
Here is a flight before I received my private pilots license, I wanted to share with everyone. I can remember it was one of my first Solo Cross Country flights from Northeast Philadelphia to Lancaster, from Lancaster to Reading and from Reading to Northeast Philadelphia. The flight was uneventful, but I remember learning about the IAS vs TAS. I was flying along at 6,500 feet on one of the legs and the IAS was showing 80 knots, but the airplane TACH was at 2,400 rpm. Reason behind this is because the number of molecules in the air decreases as you increase in altitude. This was a great lesson about why the conversions are important while in flight. There are pictures, audio of me talking to LNS tower, thanks to Liveatc.net and videos posted below.
This is the plane I was flying. It's a Piper Warrior, N9752C
Figured, I would put up a flying blog that I can use to update everyone on my flying adventures. Pilots written logbooks are columns of text and I wanted to turn that into pictures / video and text that everyone can remember. I will be publishing and putting up pictures soon. Thanks goes to Gary over at Garys Flight blog for the inspiration in getting this started! I have joined a club in Delaware called Del-Penn flyers and I also fly in a plane across the field with a friend Alex.
