WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT TRAINING FORMULA "EVERYONE PLEASE RESPOND"

IT STARTED AS ....

-FLYING 3X /WEEK "IF POSSIBLE" DURING PRIVATE PILOT TRAINING.
-DURING THAT TIME I WOULD STUDY 1 HR / NIGHT WHICH CONSISTED OF A COMBINATION OF KING SCHOOL VIDEOS.
-KING SCHOOL AUDIO CD'S WHILE WORKING OUT OR DRIVING
-GLIEM TEST PREP
-KING SCHOOL GROUND CD'S
-KING SCHOOL PRIVATE PILOT CD'S
-NTSB REPORTS
-AVIATION SAFETY MAGAZINE
-FLIGHT TRAINING MAGAZINE
-CHAIR FLIGHT(VISUALIZING E/R PROCEDURES)
-MICRO-04 FLIGHT SIMULATOR
-A WEEKLY CHAT W/ PILOTS AT THE FBO
-AND AOPA SAFETY COURSES EVERY ONE LOCAL TO ME

WOW NOW THAT I LOOK AT IT THAT SEEMS PRETTY THOROUGH
AS WELL AS A LOT OF STUDY......

MY355

PS... MY CURRENT SCHEDULE IS

-CD'S DURING EXERCISE AT HOME 2-3 X /WEEK PRIVATE PILOT AND IFR.(ABOUT AN HOUR)

-AT LEAST 1 TO 1.5 HOURS / DAY 5-6 DAYS A WEEK IFR CD SET KING SCHOOL (OR) CHAIR FLIGHT (OR ) MICRO 04' (OR ) MICRO X

- REVIEW OF PRIVATE PILOT VFR OPERATIONS ABOUT 20% OF THE TIME TO STAY SHARP.

-CHAIR FLIGHT OR SIMULATE E/R PROCEEDURES

-1X / MONTH PLAN A X-COUNTRY (A LOT OF FUN TO PUT TOGETHER)

-FLYING ITSELF IS 1X/ WEEK OR AT LEAST EVERY OTHER WEEK FOR AS MUCH TIME AS I CAN AFFORD.....

MY355

 

-Hope for nice weather...
-Hope for the wind to remain below my minimums, alternating with...
-Hoping the wind will increase to clear the Ovcst...
-Drive home pretending I'm taxiing...
-Hope that maybe next weekend.......good Wx, & wind < my minimums
-sigh
-Watch videos, ( have an extensive library at my flight school)
-study "Flight Tech" written test audio tapes
-read a little "Jeppeson"
-Read a little "Gleim"
-Read a little "AOPA Pilot"
-Go to "privatepilotexam.com" take another test
( doing the high 80's without the charting [poor resolution] questions)
-sigh...
-Repeat next week
-Repeat
-Repeat.............

Actually weather here (my minimums that is) has been the pits!
But that's the Jersey coast, in winter.

First starting out, I went for an 1 hour flight/week with Instr.
and many hours of self taught ground.

Since I've solo'd, I now try to fly 2 hours a week minimum.
Sometimes that turns out, to be 4 flights of .5 hrs each.
I also hitch rides with other students, and pilots.
Good practice, for preflighting, for weather info gathering,
and freezing the butt off.
Yeah..... winds AND low temps [-4 C to -12 C today] = potential Frostbite!
{wind chill factor, in the negative, single digits } read "colder than a witches....___"

RFKing, stated in another thread, that: "He didn't know how people these days could afford to learn to fly."

It's not easy!

 

You run a heavy schedule too.
at least iI know I'm not alone.
Thanks for the reminder about ride alongs.

MY355

 

My current method is "find new place to train because my flight school restructured their insurance and can no longer allow students to rent airplanes." I think I'm just going to say screw it and buy a Cherokee or something else that's relatively inexpensive to finish up in. It will be good to not have to rent during instrument training anyway. Then I can start working on getting 1,000 hours/500 PIC so I can start training for jet warbirds! Then, I'll go broke.

 

Ah, yes. You have discovered the secret to making a small fortune in aviation.

START OUT WITH A LARGE FORTUNE AND BUY AN AIRPLANE!

All I can say is GOPHER IT!!!

Plandflyr

 

My goal is to fly on Friday afternoon, and on Saturday/Sunday mornings.

Then I have a Ground School class on Wed nights.

Weather here in Boston really mess's with these dates. I have yet to have 3 flights in a week. Ground school was even canceled on Wed night due to weather.

 

NOW THATS ROUGH WEATHER!!

AT LEAST YOU'LL GET PROFICIANT IN ACTUAL IFR AS WELL AS EXELLENT IN INTERPRITING WEATHER AS WELL AS FLYING IN SOME PROBABLY SIGNIFICANT X-WINDS.THE WEATHER AND WINDS WERE CHALLENGING WHEN I FLEW IN HAWAII.

MY355

 

i have 2 actives (flight/sim/oral) a day from Monday-Thursday. Its nice to get allot of time in every week.

 

FLYING IN SOME PROBABLY SIGNIFICANT X-WINDS

Yep, lot of cross winds, I have about 12 hours logs with the last 3 just working on landings. Can't get them down. So far I have worked on landings at 4 airports. My airport (3b3) has a great runway, 40 feet wide, with 30-40 foot pine trees running alone side the run way, and tress at the ends. Shoot a plane clipped the top 3 feet of one tree on final last weekend.

 

I try to do as many landings as possible when I practice.
To me that's the biggest thrill .........after taking off of course....
I practice on two runways, 14/32 and 3/21.
The main (14/32) is 100 ft wide, and 7,300 feet long.
The other one 3,707 x 50 ft.

My goal is precision. Putting her down EXACTLY where I want her. Not just aiming for center, and hoping, some day she'll touch down .....someplace...

So far, I've logged over 200 landings. with about 20 precisely where I decided.
The majority tho, are within 100 ft of target, with a couple of balloonings due to gusts, that fouled my record.

Oh what a time I had with crosswinds! Couldn't get the timing to kick out from a crab.... Couldn't line up on center...

Problem was...
My concept of doing something.
I had thought that as long as the rwy was ahead of me all was fine, and I would just fly towards it. I see that I'm drifting to one side, and bam! the Instr, would correct. Now I wasn't aware of just exactly what he did, and by the time I formulated a question.... Yep! I was drifting again.

I took some time, going up with another Instr, and he taught me the use of rudder to remain centered. Suddenly... I was remaining centered!!!
(still had to work on the timing tho)

 

My problem is timing of coming out of the crab for touch down. I keep coming out to early and there is not much room to drift on a 40 feet wide runway.

My goal right now is to land on my own, I'll work on spot landings later.