Starting to fly (and failing to blog)
Argh, why is written introspection so hard?! All my good intentions to blog regularly were brushed aside this spring, as my brain decided that me learning to fly wasn't interesting to anyone else (and that I should care whether it was interesting to others when blogging). Rather than weekly, I'm going to aim for quarterly, and then attempt to over-, rather than under-deliver. Picking a school and instructor In February I started my piloting adventures for real. I chose a flight school with a large fleet of aircraft of the same type that all have the same instrument configuration ( Rainier Flight Service ), because I only wanted to have to learn one instrument configuration to start with, and I wanted to not be constrained by lack of aircraft availability. Side note about instruments: like cars, there are standards about the types of information an aircraft instrument panel must convey, but there are many different ways of doing it. I’m learning in Cessna 162 Skycatc...