Welcome to my web site
A website for pilots like myself who are learning to fly, or have flown for years .
But for some reason or another don't get to fly as much as we would like.
It could be a number of reason why we don't get to fly as much as we like including financial reasons.
We all know how expensive it is to be up there in the sky per hour..
The reason is we need to spend energy in some way or another to be there.
Also most the planes we fly are quite old and inefficient.
Sometimes I think soaring or gliding is a much better option.
In aviation they say, practice and recency is everything.
Boy do we miss out then.
So this web site I setup to help us with this endeavor with tips and tricks to help pilots like us
as well as that it is also a website to showoff my aviation experiences
I will be posting lots of photos and in the future will be looking to add a forum as well
I would love to hear from other pilots out there in similar trying times.
please feel free to email me or contribute in the upcoming forum
CESSNA 152 UNO AND SOX AT CAMDEN
A little about myself
I began flying in October 2005 at Camden airport with my instructor Peter Gordon.
It was a half hour flight known as a TIF (trial instructional flight) in a piper warrior 4 seater plane
pictured on the right hand side.
At the time I was scared to go along alone and thus took my wife who was pregnant 2 months with
our first child ,and my younger sister also came along.
I was not chicken of flying rather this was the moment I took my first steps towards flying
something I had dreamed of all my life up to this point.
When I was young l dreamt of becoming a aeronautical engineer. later when that didn't happen
I even thought of becoming a aircraft mechanic. Never did I think I could be a pilot.
Always thought of something I will never be able to do or afford.
It was through seeing my boss at the time David moss going through his training that got me interested
enough to take the first step
I thought the cheapest way to start was with the non profit par time flying school,
the Australian air league.
They has only one warrior and 2 other Cessna 152 plus an RV6.
Only flying on weekends meant sometime it was hard to get a booking
and any plane issues meant we had to miss out flying that day.
as I found out one day the Cessnas window fell off , another time and engine cowling screw kept
coming off.
Eventually after a ong break i decide it was time to move off to new private taining place
I decided to fly at Bankstown instead as it was more busy and will give me better experience.
There are lots of good flying schools at bankstown like basair ,schofields, proflight, aerospace and
clamback and hennesy. to name a few, heres a link for the complete list
http://www.aeroclub.com.au/queryao-70.html
Out of all of these I found the cheapest to be than lsat one.
they have immense experience and been around for donkeys years.
The hourly rate was only a bit higher than at Camden.
They have warriors used exclusively for training new pilots.
The instructors are good and get paid for it.
I even bought a headset from here , a very cheap David Clark H10-80 one of the best ones.
I decided to go for the best headset even if it was a used one, because I like things of good quality.
On the subject of headsets. Earlier i bought a cheap Korean one from eBay it came from
Hong Kong, not bad but I was not impressed by the quality so I sold it back on eBay.
One of the good things about eBay is you can sell stuff back if you don't like it.
There lots of good cheap pilot supplies on eBay , used and new.
I have now racked up about 15 hours over the last year and a half
Not a lot by any standards, but I am persistent and will keep on going.
Affordability is the main concern as well as time.
The main reason I moved away from the Cessna 152 to Piper Warrior is because I eventually will be
flying it anyway in order to fly may family around the training area.
thats is my goal at the moment to reach gfpt level.
Besides i think it i much better plan and i love it.
Cessna 152
The two most common training aircraft for ab initio, are the Cessna 152 and the Piper Warrior.
The advantage that the former has is its smaller, easy to fly and cheaper to run..
This means a cheaper plane per hour to learn on.
it has a high wing therefore no fuel pump is needed, offering excellent ground visibility except in a turn
towards the turn.
it has powerful flaps that operate electrically
but you have to use carburettor heat religiously, as cessna engines are more prone to carb icing
despite using than same engine as the warrior
another advantage is it has 2 doors to get into
its semi aerobatic and even comes in an full aerobatic model
Piper warior
Larger than the Cessna 152 it has four seats like the Cessna 172
slightly faster performance and low wing fighter plane like design
carb heat is not as important but fuel pump must be turned on in critical stages of flight like takeoff
and landing.
Its a really nice plane with stable and docile handling
there's not wing drop when you stall the plane
it has smaller flaps that create more drag than lift and are operated using a handbrake style lever
another key feature is there no cross flow between the fuel tanks
so you must select the right tank using a switch near your left knee.
I find landing the warrior slightly easier because the wings a lower to the runway in ground effect
like in bigger planes a throttle quadrant is present instead of the spindle spine handle
Trim is between the seats instead of below the panel.
it has a rudder trim a well.
Instruments of the Piper Warrior
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COCKPIT PANEL OF WARRIOR IBU AND BANSKTOWN
WARRIOR PZC AT BANKSTOWN
WARRIOR PZC PRE FLIGHT COMPLETE
WARRIOR PZC ATIS RECIEVED READY FOR TAKEOFF
