This is a picture of the pumpkin I carved for Halloween. It’s either the aftermath of some of kind of alien infestation or a shotgun blast to chest. I’m not sure.

The weather didn’t permit a flight over to Madison today but we did get up for some more pattern practice, which included soft and short [...]

I doubt my blog has hit the “big time” yet but at least the spammers have found it. I’m getting hit with “comment spam” now and it is a pain to deal with. Therefore I’ve turned off article comments for the time being.

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Did some airspace refresher ground school and some trips around the pattern today with my new instructor, Mark. He has a completely different teaching strategy than Mike.

The purpose of the pattern work was to check me out for solo at Morey, which will come in handy on the weekends when I feel like practicing landings. [...]

I had my last flight with Mike yesterday. Good luck at the new job Mike!

I flew us over to Madison with no input from him, and seemed to handle myself with ATC ok. This time we landed and I talked to Ground Control for the first time. We taxied over to the GA ramp and [...]

Today I got some bittersweet news. My instructor Mike just got a job flying a twin engine, 70-seat jet for a United regional airline. He starts his training next month, and doesn’t know who I’ll get assigned to yet. Now that I’m entering my cross-country training, this isn’t as bad as it could have been, [...]

Flew over to Madison again today. It went better, since I knew what to expect.

It has been about 2 weeks since my last flight, and as usual we had a direct south crosswind. I totally forgot to turn the yoke into the wind, and Mike told me to abort the takeoff until I figured out [...]