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Aug 16/15 pm – Jeff and Gregor

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Very nice night at the field. Initially quite windy but after 30 min break near perfect conditions. Jeff added 6 more flights to his log book and is now completely independent. He has got 24 on his belt now. His landings are super split and so are his take offs. He also practiced engine out procedure and passed.

Gregor flew 4 times. He likes to take it easy and enjoy flying it self. He has now 12 flights and he can land on his own as well. I do not think he was in the beans once. ;-)

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Aug 16/15 am – Gregor 5 more flights

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Excellent condition this morning. Wind from southwest at 15 km/h. Greg has quickly managed five flights – all his offs are perfect. He’s still relying on my verbal guidance but we will cut that out soon. Landings are 90% there. Just had one little stumble, well, we’ll fix that soon. Gregory has eight flights after 3 1/2 and a half days of training – congratulations, well done so far.

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Aug 15/15 pm – Gregor 2 more flights

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We had some very nasty clouds at the field at 4:30 when have arrived at the field. We had to sit around for about an hour with dark clouds above us spitting occasional drop of water. At 6 o’clock the massive cumulus finally started to break down and disappear and was time for us to fly. Gregor managed two flights both of them quite long – it was spectacular night to fly. The wind has died off rather rapidly so instead of trying for more takeoffs and landings I let Gregore to enjoy the perfectly smooth air…

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Aug 15/15 – Gregor PPG course day 3 am – first flight

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Gregor has managed his first solo flight this morning!

It was a misty this am, not a lot of wind so we started on forward inflations. Gregor has finally locked it in and almost every single one was perfect. Wind started to pick around 10 AM and since it was overcast we were getting nice southwest at about 15 km/h we decided to go for it.

After one failed attempt, Gregor was up, feeling super comfortable – I could tell from the tone of his voice and also because he started to use radio right away. Great 20 minutes flight but lending was bit rough – it started to get thermally and Gregore ended up landing in sink.

We will fly more this PM

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Aug 12/15 – Jeff 5 more flights.

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Aug 9/13 – Gregor PPG course – day 2

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Did more ground handling today. Gregory can reverse handle and turn into forward position. It still needs some fine tuning but majority of work is done. Picture perfect day with incredible cumulus cloud streets.

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Aug 8/15 – Gregory PPG course – day 1

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Ground school, simulator and SPP as usual then 4 hrs of reverse ground handling and work with motors. 

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July 30/15 – Flying for fun

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This Monday I had a great flight from St. Catharines to Collingwood.

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Took off at 1o am, asked for flight following as our route was through one of the busiest corridor in North America. Passing by Brampton we had close to 10 light aircraft in sight! Awesome trip. The smoothest flight ever.

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Landed in Collingwood and took our friends for flight to see their property from the air. Trip back next day went without the hitch too. It was not as busy as day before so we got to stay at 3000 through Pearsons airspace which is great for safety reasons.

In the evening I had incredible PPG flight with my friend Chris – it was one of those magical calm, warm evenings. I LOVE flying…

 

 

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July 25/15 – Do you remember what to do in PPG emergency?

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If the answer is no, I can help you with an app I have created called an Emergency Memorizer.

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WHAT DOES THE APP DO?

The Emergency Memorizer App was created to help you to store and  remember your emergency procedures.

HOW DO I USE IT?

The app comes preloaded with examples of emergencies to make users understand its structure and function. Please delete and/or edit those emergency examples and enter your own emergencies.

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1) Once your emergencies and related procedures are entered, they are always with you and you can access the solutions quickly.
2) You can test your ability to react to a simulated random emergency at any time using test button.

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3) You can set up an alarm schedule where a simulated random emergency will be presented to you by the app at random time

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4) If you register, you can exchange emergencies and related solutions with other registered users using the share (export/import) feature

TUTORIAL.

This is new original idea and you need to read a tutorial to understand how this works:  http://www.emergencymemorizer.com/getting-started/

If you register for account and share something to me at zemanandre@gmail.com I will share back my PPG emergencies so you can stay on top of it.

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The app is $ 2.29 CAD – please look for it in your app store, buy it, install it, play with it, set up an account. I need some feedback.

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If you use it on regular bases, you will know what to do if your engine goes full power in flight and you can’t go back to idle or if you enter spin and similar…

Thanks, I really appreciate it.

Andre