Trim Tab Altitude is everything!

I have the amazing fortune to live across the street from a couple, both pilots, who own a plane (PA-28 - see pictures) and invite me for flights occasionally. We have flown to Morrisburg and Pembroke, and this weekend Mike asked me if I was interested in going to the Canadian Aviation Expo being held in Hamilton. You're reading this, so obviously I eagerly accepted.

I am two solo flights ahead of where I was when I wrote my last article, one of which went well and the other...not so well

Exams are over, and I am getting tired of having to tell people I still don't have my PPL. There is going to be a lot of free time for the next couple weeks for me, and hopefully a lot of good weather too, so I'm making a push while I can.

I flew last week with Mark, and did a pre- flight test including two hours of ground material and two hours in the air covering everything I have learned so far. I did okay, but while he is on a trip for the next week or so I will make a couple solo flights to practice my weak areas.

I have been a teaching assistant (TA) at Carleton University for a few weeks now, so I thought I would give an inside view of what it is like.

Spelling is pretty important to me, and I have found many a mistake on all sorts of websites. I would have thought, though, that a large company such as Apple would double-check everything going out their doors. Apparently not.

This semester will go down in my history as the one I didn't take the bus to university. Was it because I was out of the city? Bought a car? Quit university? Actually none of those comes close to the truth: a transit strike. For those who didn't have the misfortune of living in Ottawa recently, here is the story of the 51-day strike-turned-game.

Okay, today's agenda is very simple - describe Web History using my account as an example, then give my personal opinion on its usefulness. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

Mark and I flew around Russell, Embrun, and Cumberland today so I could practice diversions. It was very cold, and I'm starting to think that I will never get a plane with decent heat! The flight was 1.7 hours. Mark asked me to do a mock flight plan that we'll go over during my next booking.

The airport was undergoing a lot of snow removal today since the Ottawa area got about half a foot of snow yesterday, so the tower told us to use runway 32, our longest runway.

My exams are done, and I am going to fly as much as possible, weather permitting.  I flew for the first time in a long while on Tuesday - a rather cold day, but good for flying. Since Unal, my instructor until now, is returning to his home country, I will now be flying with Mark.

Mark and I flew out to the practice area so I could work on some things I will need to demonstrate during my flight test.  I was pleasantly suprised at how much I was able to do, although I ran each radio call past Mark, just in case .