Denton Airshow A-10

100 degrees, other planes are trying to impress the crowd while all i'm waiting for is the A-10 !!
it's very cool, 30mm machine gun in front of the nose for accurate attack on the tank, and very agile manueverability to dodge and escape ! watch it in HD !!

FINALLY ... PPL !!

After a long 1.5 months, my license finally arrive in the mail.. I should be more excited than I actually am, maybe I've waited for too long ?
anyway, this day is worth memorizing, I'm now officially one of the pilot in FAA database, that's something huh ?

USAF A-10 arriving KDTO for airshow

picture from -- http://www.texstars.com/files/Image/GalleryFullSize/aA-10Warthogsformation.jpg

This afternoon as I'm doing my instrument stage III oral exam, my examiner and I heard this loud jet passing noice outside the building that we just could not ignore. We ran outside and saw 2 USAF A-10 Warthogs doing low passes and finally land on runway 17. I took the video of it taxing pass us and waving to us, it's a really COOL plane, and I love the big engines!!! Really looking forward to the Airshow now...
 I could've held the camera more stable, might look kinda shaky, I was filming while walking.
watch it in HD !!

IFR CROSS COUNTRY 275NM DTO-LAW-ONY-DTO

IFR long cross country fly, we expected to have more IMC than we actually did, we only got about 20 min of actual time. The flight was a lot of fun, heard some funny voices talking on the radio..
It's my first time to self service the fuel, it's harder than it looks, it's kinda heavy.
the last part, arriving at Denton, I shot an ILS approach, the point was to follow the 2 needles being my horizontal course guidence and my glide slope, if I follow that, it'll take me right over the runway.
after this part, it's preparing for my checkride which it might happen as soon as this week or next week, wish me luck !!!

小抱怨一下..

這所學校應該算是中等規模吧！拿到幾家大陸的航空公司的訓練合約，正在積極擴張中。
在這邊學飛四個月了，一直讓我有種 "想要跟大學校看齊，可是學不像" 的感覺。怎麼說呢？？
管理方面，上下溝通有問題，上面的人懂規定，但是櫃台的人不是完全懂... 這就很麻煩！完全不懂也還好他們會去問，可是懂一點點以為全懂得就很理直氣壯... 上面的跟我說我可以以renter來租飛機飛，照理來說我已經有私人飛機執照可以租飛機飛，到了要租的那一天，櫃台的人不讓我拿飛機因為他說我需要一個教官幫我簽名.....有這種事！？那我的執照是假的？？
這學校還有一點很奇怪，我說我要帶朋友上去飛，他們說可以，但是飛的時間不算是訓練的時間...有這種說法...？ 全美都麻是拿到PPL後就亂飛到處飛帶朋友帶馬子帶家人飛，飛到時數到了就可以考商業執照..  學校說那是fun flying, 不是training flying.... 第一次聽到這種說法..
照民航法規，我帶朋友亂飛一天到晚fun flying, 時數到了照理說我就可以考，學校會不讓我考嗎？？他有權利這樣限制嗎？
今天看到一個同學很興奮的帶他老爸（777機長) 來學校租飛機飛，真爽..  可是當下就讓我想到之前我要租的時候，櫃台的就說風太大一定要教練跟飛....啥跟啥阿！今天風更大....他就可以..  所以，規定到底是可以還是不可以？？上下溝通不良才會出現這種狀況。
今天本來要飛長程四小時的，我提早一個小時到學校弄飛行計畫，教練跟他另一個學生在飛，突然打電話說會晚點回來，OK，這常有。到我的時候，竟然說我定的時間只有三小時！！我早上看得時候是12-4, 現在就變成12-3，他們晚近來所以現在已經 1:20....取消吧... 誰動了我的時間？？不知道... 所以今天11點就到學校等到1:30 後來取消，我來回開車要一ㄍ半小時...整人嗎？
今天突然很想要抱怨學校，覺得很多地方可以做的更好，禮拜天沒有SCHEDULER上班，所以想要臨時改？有點難... 為什麼禮拜天那麼多人飛卻沒有人上班？？只有那個懂一半規局的櫃台上班... checkride也是，每個考官的標準，定義，都有出入。今天考官A說"when you brief the approach, keep it brief, i don't need to know everything" 明天考官B說"you need to brief the whole approach"....我兩樣都會，可是不知道你喜歡哪一樣！
學校目前在擴張，之前的停機棚現在已經在蓋新的簡報室跟教室，帶是他們應該先趕快弄一個pilot lounge出來才是阿，有時候擠到只能站在那邊，吃飯都沒有位子，電腦兩台也不夠，這些比較急的應該先搞定吧..... 上次也是，沒有人跟我說儀器訓練開始前要跟TSA要新的許可，連我教練都不知道，幫我弄後還弄錯害我等了三個禮拜，不然我早就拿到儀器rating了。我搞清楚後我後面的人都早早就申請，等都不用等。
其實學校優點不是沒有，只是今天比較想抱怨，改天心情好了再寫些優點吧..

First time flying in the "soup"

（piture is from ---www.zunal.com/myaccount/uploads/clouds.jpg )
I don't know why they call it the "soup", but that's where I was flying today.
IMC- Instrument meteorological condition, meaning I need to fly only by looking at the instruments. my body is no longer trustworthy... 
I've only learned in ground school that during IMC, I need to trust my instruments because my senses were unreliable. at a point in time during the flight, I looked over to the GPS to make sure I have set it up correctly, when I look back to my instruments, we were in a bank ! ( not BOA) and either me nor my instructor had any idea about it, it was the exciting moment of the flight.
it's been 4 months since i started training, everything is pretty much on schedule except for that 1 month I had to wait for my TSA clearance... otherwise I'd be done with my instrument right now !
anyway, other than that, it looks very promising that I may be done in the next couple of months, October, maybe, we'll see...
next monday I will start my Commercial ground school, and during that time, I will get my instrument rating and will be able to time sharing with my classmates. great ! !