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Tuesday, October 14
Flight 01: First flight!
By Brady Lane at 6:15 PM
Flight log to date Hours flown: 0.9 | Days since I started: 0 | Cost: $379.90
I have one hour in the logbook!
Jason let me take the controls for the whole flight (except landing). When he told me I was going to do most the flying, my eyebrows raised and I gave him the “Are you sure about this?” look.
It was a blast though! Here are some of the things we did...
Taxi — using rudder to steer took a few minutes getting used to
Takeoff — as soon as we had full throttle, the plane jumped off the runway. It’s an amazing feeling!
Holding Altitude/Climbs/Descents — it felt like we were level when we were climbing. And when we were actually level, it felt like our nose was pointed way down. Hopefully, the more time I spend in the plane the better feel I’ll get for this.
Turns — these are fun! You can really feel the controls of the plane in a turn.
Traffic pattern — this made sense when he explained it, but actually doing it was a little more complicated. I’m glad we practiced it away from the airport first. This is another thing I hope will become easier the more I practice it.
Landing — Jason took the controls here and made it look easy. There are so many things happening at once – watching altitude, speed, working the throttle, the stick, the rudder, and also communicating with the tower. WOW. Landing seems a little overwhelming right now.
When we landed, I was extremely excited as well as exhausted. If I had to wrap up the whole flight it would be — information overload, but I DID IT!
There is plenty to learn in coming weeks but now I know it is achievable. It is within reach and doable.
Just to feel the controls at work is an incredible feeling!
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Posted by
@ 11:56 AM, October 23
Congratulation Jason. Exciting to watch and see it happening as you did.
**Dan
ASA
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@ 10:41 AM, October 30
I'm a little late to this series, so I'm posting on an old video, but that was so fun to watch!
This series is great for me (and many others like me, I'm sure) who plan to learn to fly someday.
So was flying a real plane anything at all like X-plane, or are we flight simmers fooling ourselves?
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@ 08:45 AM, April 22
Seeing you at the first takeoff brings back memories of my first flight in 2005...I got to about 54 hours and had to stop but what an amzing journey you ahve started. There is nothing like the first time you pull back and feel that lift! Enjoying the Video and getting that BUG
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@ 11:21 AM, August 23
I am not sure where I saw the link to this blog but I am loving it. Brady, thank you very much for doing this. What is even cooler is that I found it late so now I have a lot of video to watch. ,)
I am done with ground school and am saving $$ for flight lessons so it is fun to see someone else flying. I also am using the time to enjoy simulator flying.
Steve
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@ 12:19 AM, October 16
Loving this Blog, I am starting the same Process, Yesterday was my first flight, and I'm the same way, very overwhelming! I was pretty much in the same position, just mostly thought it was going to be a ride along but I was told to do everything and just looked at my instructor like "Say WHAT?!!" and yes, by the time i was done and stepped out i was soo tensed up and exhausted! SO much going on, especially being the airport im learning at is quite busy.
Love the blog and will follow along with the videos as my training goes along.
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