Weekend of sun and fog
The weather has become a central part of my life since I began my PPL training. I’m checking the metar all the time, hissing at the bad prognosis constantly (trust me, the Gothenburg weather is not very nice). Went out to AKG this saturday to do some studying on my own. The weather was great then (wow), sunny and not very windy. This meant of course that a lot of people took the chance to log some flight hours, with me still on the ground longing after air time. Really…I couldn’t have chosen a worse day to go the airport. I did meet Lukas, an old colleague that first got me in to flying.
Sunday gave us the normal weather back with the fog from hell and everybody was grounded which would’ve been better for self studies but as you might now, we have normal lessons on Sundays. We continued with more aircraft knowledge and aerodynamics during the day. Ivan took us out to the hangar and we got to check out all the different flaps and parts of an aircraft and how they might behave during certain circumstances. I missed quite a bit of this as my eyes (and ears) caught the attention of a starting turboprop, truly wonderful sound!
Read about a DVD in the forum at Flygfyren called “One Six Right: The Romance of Flying”. A documentary about “the local airport”, in this case: Van Nuys airport in southern California. 73 minutes of astonishing photography and beautiful aircraft. Check out the vids at their web site yourself if you don’t believe me! Too bad they decided to go for HD-DVD and not Blu-ray for that 1080p experience. The regular DVD goes for $19.95. Buy it! Now!
Tags: aviation, Lesson, One Six Right, PPL
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