Bobby shares his thoughts and feelings as he achieves his lifelong dream of learning to fly. Along the way we will talk about the experience of flight training, the things that you learn, and the struggles that you encounter. Whether you're also learning how to fly, interested in aviation, or just friends and family who want to follow along, hopefully you'll find it interesting.
This whole flying lessons thing is taking a REALLY long time... And some of it is just frustrating. Let's get caught up and talk about why learning to fly can be a frustratingly slow process.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
31 Mar 2023
011 - Medical Flight Tested
I took my medical flight test! In this episode I talk about how it went. What was the process like? What did I have to do? What was the end result? Let's find out!
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
27 Mar 2023
010 - Preparing for a Medical Flight Test
The FAA wants proof that I can fly a plane even though I'm blind in one eye. I finally have the medical flight test scheduled to try and prove it to them. Today I'll talk about what that test is supposed to look like, why it exists, and how to prepare.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
21 Mar 2023
009 - I'm Still Here
It's been a while since I made an episode. Things got quiet in my training for a while, but they are moving again and I'm here with an update! I promise I'm going to do these on a more weekly basis...
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
21 Feb 2023
008 - A Close Call
I recently had a close call that gave me a bit of a scare. It took me a while to decide to make and post this episode, because... well... I was embarrassed. I'm sharing it with everyone so that we can all learn about getting right back on the horse.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
20 Jan 2023
007 - Back on Glideslope
In this episode I follow up on my setback from last time, and I talk about "chair flying"... what is it? And why should people (myself included) take it more seriously?
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
8 Jan 2023
006 - Setbacks
In this episode I talk about how I had some setbacks in my training, why that might've happened, how it is making me struggle, and what I'm doing about it.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
2 Dec 2022
005 - 5 Ways I Could Have Learned to Land Faster
I finally made a landing all by myself! So this week I decided to take some time to think back on my training so far, and what could I have done differently to maybe have made this landing sooner in my training.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
24 Nov 2022
004 - Talking to myself
Today I talk about how talking to myself seems to be helping me improve my flying. It can be very frustrating when you're practicing and training but you don't feel like you're making any progress. That's the situation I've been in for a little while. I've done a lot of takeoffs and landings and I just keep making the same mistakes over and over, and sometimes make mistakes I haven't made in a long time. My flight instructor had a hunch and asked me to do something that changed everything.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
21 Nov 2022
003 - Trouble taking off
When your plane goes from safely and securely on the ground to flying in the air, that transition can actually be pretty challenging. Just a moment ago your tires were on the ground and you were in pretty good control of where you wanted to go. Suddenly you're soaring through this fluid atmosphere that has it's own ideas of how you should be moving around. Transitioning from that familiar ground-state to riding the air currents can be... challenging.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
19 Nov 2022
002 - Checklists on my mind
So much of flying is about checklists. I have been surprised to learn just how many checklists you have to learn. Checklists about the fuel quality, the wings, checking the electrical system, checking the communications... And that's all BEFORE you even take off! I've been trying to think more about how to improve my checklist game.
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DISCLAIMER:
I am a student of aviation, and a new one at that. Therefore, I make no claims to being an authority of any kind on the topics that I talk about. I am only speaking from my limited, biased perspective as a student who is learning and making mistakes. Therefore, none of what I say should be taken as fact or advice to be followed. Double-check me and let me know when I get it wrong.
18 Nov 2022
001 - What is a flying lesson like?
Welcome to the first episode of this diary podcast I'm doing during my training to become a private pilot. I hope you enjoy listening along.
DISCLAIMER
It should be noted that this is just one person's experience. This is not necessarily the experience of everyone getting their private pilot license. Also, I should probably go ahead and make the disclaimer that you shouldn't consider the things I say on this podcast to be fact or even good advice. I'm learning and recording these episodes as I am learning, and as such I cannot and will not guarantee in any way that I'm right about any of it.
Enjoy!
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