Click image to see cartoon. Today, I ate my own heart. This was possible, since it was in my mouth while I did some more solo flying. After a few times around the pattern with my instructor, he hopped out and sent me up on my own. I, for some reason, was feeling uneasy, and [...]
VOR gestalt.
The moment of gestalt happened with a piece of paper. “I don’t understand some things about VOR…” My voice trailed off. I didn’t feel like I even knew enough to formulate a decent question, and I hate just saying, essentially, “I don’t get it.” I was sitting with my instructor, Mark Scheele, across the desk, [...]
But I can flare!
So I finally think I can land. Somewhat. I acknowledge this with such a bold statement because my instructor said that, whether I was aware of it or not, the concept of landing had “clicked.” Sadly, I learned to flare just in time to unlearn it. Sort of. In practicing short-field landings, things are slightly [...]
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