[Flightgear-devel] [OT] First flight lesson
Hi all, following the tradition of reporting on the progress of the respective pilot's license on flightgear-devel, today it's my turn as today I had my very first flight lesson for the Sport Pilot's License for very light aircraft (Ultraleicht, i.e. MTOW 472.5kg). No, that doesn't mean I'm flying trikes. Essentially these planes are like your everyday light aircraft (Piper PA28, C172, whatever), just a lot lighter ;-) And as we were talking about the value of FlightGear, it has proven to have its very own value for me, even monetary speaking. Thanks to training on physically accurate FlightGear I was able to skip all that typical first-lesson stuff (flying curves, climb, descend, holding course and altitude, etc.) and go directly to traffic circuits and landing practice. Which essentially means that I'll possibly be able to actually do something sensible with the expensive instructor lessons and train for the really important stuff ;-) BTW: As FlightGear currently features neither an Ikarus C42 (yes, I know, the name is not well selected for a plane, but tell that to the people at Comco) nor an EuroFox - in fact I haven't found any very light aircraft in the hangar yet - I plan to model at least one of them as soon as I get a better feeling for them and as soon as I get better access to our club's planes for taking pictures for modelling. Don't pin me down on this, I said, I plan doing that. ;-) Cheers, Ralf ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] First flight lesson
following the tradition of reporting on the progress of the respective pilot's license on flightgear-devel, today it's my turn as today I had my very first flight lesson for the Sport Pilot's License for very light I can imagine the wide grin in your face ;-) Congratulations and welcome to the sky! Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] First flight lesson
Hi, Torsten Dreyer schrieb: following the tradition of reporting on the progress of the respective pilot's license on flightgear-devel, today it's my turn as today I had my very first flight lesson for the Sport Pilot's License for very light I can imagine the wide grin in your face ;-) Actually, that grin briefly vanished in the light turbulences we had here today. That's a thing you can't train on FlightGear (yet) ;-) You also won't get a wiff of the awkward position your in when slipping...but I'll get used to that. Congratulations and welcome to the sky! Thanks. If I hadn't already been addicted before, I would be now ;-) Cheers, Ralf ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] First flight lesson
Ralf Gerlich wrote: following the tradition of reporting on the progress of the respective pilot's license on flightgear-devel, today it's my turn as today I had my very first flight lesson for the Sport Pilot's License for very light aircraft (Ultraleicht, i.e. MTOW 472.5kg). Wooohooo !!! Errrm, great ;-) I'm looking forward to get the permission to fly such light aircraft, I guess it's even more fun than sitting in a 'stock' C172 Welcome to the third dimension, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] First flight lesson
A steep sideslip approach with full flaps is the most fun you can safely have in a cessna! On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 3:10 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, Torsten Dreyer schrieb: following the tradition of reporting on the progress of the respective pilot's license on flightgear-devel, today it's my turn as today I had my very first flight lesson for the Sport Pilot's License for very light I can imagine the wide grin in your face ;-) Actually, that grin briefly vanished in the light turbulences we had here today. That's a thing you can't train on FlightGear (yet) ;-) You also won't get a wiff of the awkward position your in when slipping...but I'll get used to that. Congratulations and welcome to the sky! Thanks. If I hadn't already been addicted before, I would be now ;-) Cheers, Ralf ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel Bush's family and their Saudi partners make higher profits by preventing Saddam's huge Iraqi oil reserves from ever being sold. They'll Enron the world - George Watson 2001 For Hurricanes www.globalboiling.com For solar wind and earthquakes www.electricquakes.com Typos caused by two inch mobile phone keyboard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
