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April | 2011 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for April 2011. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. April 4, 2011. Today was a fantastic day. Probably the best day’s flying I have ever had. I’m utterly knackered after logging 4:50 in some pretty turbulent weather. Flew over the Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Wilmslow Crater. Landed at Sedona, took the crew car into town (free if you buy 10 gallons of fuel) and had lunch, then flew back to Henderson. I got my complex signoff, and the flight review.
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March | 2011 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for March 2011. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. Bye bye miserable, foggy Blighty. March 31, 2011. My trusty steed for today. From Lyneham to Halfpenny Green. March 14, 2011. Today I did my first trip from Lyneham without an instructor on board. It was a little bit nerve wracking to be honest but all went according to plan. Mel – as usual – was my willing victim for the trip. So, after changing frequencies a couple more times, we were on our w...
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February | 2011 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for February 2011. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. February 24, 2011. I’ve been a naughty boy… I had my first IMC lesson last week and didn’t document it with one of my usual wordy twitterings. Too much time has passed now to recall any specific details and I’ve rubbed the ATIS off my kneeboard but I’ll have a bash, and promise to do a proper job next time. So off we went on my first foray into the white stuff, and what good fun it was. Barel...
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure | learning to fly… | Page 2
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Posted April 1, 2011 by stevelup. First things first. Damn, it was hot! 34 degrees on the ramp and no air conditioning. Henderson Airport is spectacular and just shows what you can have when the state is paying for something and it doesn’t have to turn a profit! A fantastic terminal building, great restaurant and some lovely machinery sat on the apron. Secondly, I really don’t know what to say in the first place! I’m sure it will come to me soon! The Arrow is a...
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July | 2010 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for July 2010. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. July 24, 2010. Earlier in the week, I completed the ground school. Whilst I was doing this, Phil went through my training record and established that I was still a little short on documented examples of stalling. I also was very unhappy with my PFL and radio nav during the practice skills test the previous week. So the agenda for today was:-. The landing was OK – Roly complained all the way...
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July | 2012 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for July 2012. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. Raduno 2012: Day 2. July 5, 2012. This morning the weather was pretty grotty again so we walked down to the beach…. The two chaps you see in this picture are Customs officers. Never seen them at the airport – we know why now🙂. Eventually, we decided that the best thing to do was head to the airport and see what the weather was doing elsewhere…. All looked good so off we went! Raduno 2012: Day 1.
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June | 2010 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for June 2010. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. Lesson 40 – Making circles in the sky. June 26, 2010. Today’s lesson was steep turns and stalling, and great fun it was too. Lots of maps, little text for this diary entry…. Really enjoyed todays lesson – the 60 degree steep turns were very entertaining and have definitely given me an appetite for aerobatics. Two of them were ‘perfect’ as we hit our own wake with quite a thump. June 25, 2010.
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May | 2011 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for May 2011. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. Trip to Le Touquet. May 15, 2011. Yes, I know it’s been a long time since I posted anything here! The plan was to make our first cross-channel trip as a bit of a birthday treat for myself a couple of weeks ago. A faulty battery in the aircraft coupled with thunderstorms quickly put a stop to that. As usual, I did all my planning with the fantastic SkyDemon. Once clear of the CTA, we climbed to 520...
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September | 2010 | Stevelup's PPL Adventure
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Stevelup's PPL Adventure. Learning to fly…. Archive for September 2010. Laquo; Stevelup's PPL Adventure home page. First trip with a purpose. September 19, 2010. This weekend, I did my first trip that actually had a point to it. My folks all still live in Leeds and I had promised that I would pop up to see them as soon as I was able to. The planned route was to keep to the west of Birmingham, then cut across and sneak through the gap between Leeds/Bradford and Doncaster/Sheffield. Off we went then…...
