1st cross country flight

Today started out great with the temperature up to 13C, very beautiful day with very little clouds and little wind. I have planned our trip from Denton to Addison to Sulphur Spring and back to Denton, it will take us a little over 2 hours to make the trip if everything is where it supposed to be...

I have already anticipate this, I knew the weather would change on me, so I got to the school a lot ahead of the time and re-calculate every leg of the trip just to be safe.
Grant and I went over the details of my flight plan and was quite satisfied with my work, w efiled the flight plan and jumped into our little Cessna 152 and off we go !
My first stop was my favorite Addison Airport, I just had to land here at least once even though it's so close and it's under B airspace we couldn't fly very high. As usual, I made a safe landing and told the tower I want to taxi back and depart~ many jets were waiting for me to land as I SLOWLY approach the runway, haha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS3J3szMD_8

After departing from Addison Airport (KADS), we were on our way to our destination- Sulphur Springs (KSLR), I like the airport code, SLR!! yeah~

that is a small airport without a control tower, so everyone that's flying there should talk to each other over the Common Traffic Advisory Frequency to avoid any collisions. 

by the way, on our way back to Denton, the wind changed from what's supposed to be a tail wind to a headwind, which made our Ground Speed slower, and we had to return the plane on time, so we came up with another plan, a direct flight, and it was very close to Frisco !! when I notice it, it was already too late, I've already passed our house ! too bad !!! but I did got some cool photoes !

look familiar ? ?

鬼天氣 II

又來！明明昨天還好好的70度左右！今天一起床就開始冷...下午就開始給我下起雪來＠＠ 還下不停喔！ 超大的... Dallas...mid-March....SNOW ?? what's going on here ??
PS: this is 121...

 

1st cross country flight

This will be my first cross country flight, total distance is 180 nautical miles. My first stop after departing from Denton will be Addison airport ! I always wanted to land there!!! and plus my instructor told me that the pilot shop over there is pretty cool, so ~ maybe Joon can see me from his apartment roof !, next stop will be my destination= Sulphur Springs, I chose this airport solely by its distance, nothing more, and I want to avoid an uncontrolled airport on the way there which has "extensive parachute jumping" activities and glider...so I didn't plan directly from Addison airport to Sulphur Spring. And on the way back, I chose the route to the north is because I don't wanna enter a class D airport, I have no room in between the airport and the DFW class B airspace. I was hoping to plan a route so I can fly over Sharon's house and take a photo, that'll be cool!! anyway, I still have to finish my plan so I can go on Monday !

PS: IF THE WEATHER ALLOWS ....right now it's blowing snow ...

山寨火腿培根蛋

漢堡蛋吃完了！來作火腿培根蛋！好吃是好吃，可是火腿跟培根都不太方便..又不能不冷凍，冷凍了早上又要化冰。我看下次要先分裝好一份一份的....應該會好一點。

隨便做做～

If something looks good, IT NORMALLY IS !! haha, I love nato rice and tomato-egg. it's my bento box for the next 3 nights.

FAA written exam 93分 pass @@

on 3/11/10, I passed my FAA Private Pilot written exam with a score of 93 ~ oh yeah~
that means from this point on until I get my private, all I need to focus on is---FLY~ I still need to do some cross country, should be a lot of fun !
the weather recently is really not that good...wind blowing from 20-30 kt...hope it gets better soon..

天氣真奇怪＠＠

天氣有夠奇怪，今天要去學校考試，看到外面暗暗的下著雨整個蹺課的癮又上來了…呵呵
不過我當然不會啦！用拖的都要把自己拖去考試。

開車開到一半，咦！前面怎麼那麼亮？？哇勒！還大太陽！幾乎沒有雲層，真奇怪，好像Dallas被UFO蓋住一樣....怪天氣...

Second Solo

Here's how it goes, 1st solo, i did 3 takeoffs and 3 landings, 2nd solo, I get to do a lot of them, as much as I can do in 2 hrs, practice a bunch of different Takeoff and Landings, that's what I did today. I wasn't expect to solo again because I don't read the syllubus..which I should .
anyway, I got to the airport, and he told me I was gonna do my 2nd solo, which is great, I get to pay less, haha, no instructor fee, ( not that I don't like him,  he's a great guy).
yeah, it was pretty exciting and fun, just like my 1st solo. on Monday, depending on the weather, I get to do local solo, which means I can fly out to the practice area and practice and come back. great ! ! this is where the fun starts! after that, we will go over some radio Navigations and prepare for my cross country flight @@

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nWuO-fmpI

First solo flight 3/4/10 @@

That is right, my man~ my first solo flight today at Denton Municiple Airport, Cessna 152.
the day started off very windy, even though Grant (my awsome instructor) have 100% confidence in me making solo, the school has some restrictions on first solo student, so I didn't think I was gonna solo today as the wind is off the limit (15kt and gusting 20)..
Anyway, we were bored in the school, I was waiting for my ground school to start in 1 hour, I checked the weather again just for the hell of it.. 13kt @@, ok....maybe we can make this happen!
still, 13kt coming from 20 degrees off my nose, so a crosswind landing will be performed, and i think I have that down, Grant and I jumped into the plane, and do 1 pattern just to make sure I'm REALLY ready, he jumps out of the plane and wishes me luck ! there it is, my 3 landings as PILOT IN COMMAND! MY MAN~ the traffic got kinda busy all of a sudden, the tower wanted me to do this do that wait for this give way to that, hold short because there's a DEAD EAGLE on the runway... dude...this is my solo, does this have to happen right now ? haha, but anyway, it was funny, I creamed in the cockpit on my first takeoff, haha, Grant said that he did that too when he first soloed, I was nervous, but also confident, i know what I had to do and when to do them, this is a very special day and I will remember every second I spent in that solo for the rest of my life !
so, I guess this checkpoint is behind me now, i'm looking forward to more flights that are forthcoming and some cross country flying@@

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wcqleW6qGs

YOU ARE GOLDEN DUDE @@

今天是緊張的 pre-solo checkride,其實也就是單飛前跟另一個資深一點的教練飛，他確定我沒問題後接下來就可以單飛了！！  今天出門後，看一下天空，有一些些高雲，很好，我想代表著穩定的氣流。 到了學校，唉....不知道在搞啥，學校電腦壞掉，查天氣的電話也短路...最後還是跟教練借他的 I-PHONE 查了天氣。上了飛機，跟我想的一樣，天氣超好，沒啥風。今天基本上就是帶他出去兜兜風，他盡量不要幫我，讓他知道我知道自己在幹麻。  到了練習區，先來個 steep turns，slow flight，stalls，engine failure。讓我印象深刻的就是，他幾乎沒有說多少話，都在忙著看他的　I-phone，看啥？youporn?　不會吧。　anyway,　一個好的 steep turn當你轉了一個360的圈圈後，如果沒掉高度的話，最理想的就是飛過自己的亂流，今天就是那樣，左右各一次，讓他不僅問我　" how many hours do you have? that's pretty impressive "整個高興...哈哈 然後他就要我帶他回去，因為他覺得我知道自己在幹麻　也覺得我飛機控制的很好，回去後要做幾個touch and go，第一個超好，第二個在 final時飛機真的很穩，沒有左右晃或是上下晃，這都是trim 跟 油門控制的功勞，他突然就說 " YOU ARE GOLDEN DUDE" 哈哈，這應該是讚美啦！雖然我很少聽到，但是喜歡被誇獎的我聽到後心情大好！哈哈　今天確實飛得真的很好，難得的好天氣！　回去後，他在我的logbook上簽名，明天跟我的教練去飛，順利的話明天就可以單飛啦！ 152TR, my favorite plane for now ! 今天就是飛他＠＠

德州漢堡蛋@@

一個人在美國自訓很花錢，除了基本開銷外，自己能控制的就是飲食了。
在台灣起來時"如果"還是早上的話，基本上漢堡蛋加中溫奶是跑不掉的。在這邊，巷口沒有早餐店，最近的店要開車5-7分鐘，雖然省錢很重要！但是營養對飛行更重要
所以...我~決~定~每～天～都～要～吃～早～餐～  
24片漢堡肉＋cheese+vegie+bun+egg = US$10=24個德州漢堡蛋，加一杯咖啡。
最愛的美乃滋連小貓都受不了，一定要加。
一顆不到美金半塊，比台灣還便宜！不過不能像台灣一樣出一張嘴就吃的到。還是不錯啦！