Cessna 182 Golf Kilo Mike Delta
Flight controls for the C-182
Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba
Selkirk, Manitoba
Downtown Portage & Main
Until next time, enjoy the sunset
Saturday, 8 March 2014
March 7 2014
I have done some very fun flights in the Cessna 182 at the Winnipeg Flying Club recently, so I'm going to dedicate this posting to the pictures that I've snapped recently.
Monday, 3 March 2014
March 3 2014
My last post was on November 23 2013 so there's plenty to revisit from the last four months.
My 2003 Corolla was destroyed at the end of November in a head on collision while I was driving to Selkirk. An incoming car lost control and crossed in front of me on the CIL highway. I was, for the most part, uninjured, but my whiplash damage from previous injuries revisited in full effect. I was thankful to have the Nav Canada Air Traffic Control panel interview completed before the stress of the accident. My success in the application process has yet to yield any training course or promise of a Nav Canada career, but I feel accomplished in how many steps I was able to surpass in the process.
December was a confusing month, and the head trauma didn't help any. I attended a handful of awesome ugly-sweater Christmas parties and an exciting New Years Eve bash towards the end of the year. Setting some higher standards for myself, I ensured that the new year will bring happiness and personal success. I wasn't able to put in too many flights because of the cold weather, but I brought a few friends up in the 172s at Harv's Air. During one of the engine start-ups, we had to scrape frost off the instruments to reveal the flight information that would soon become critical once airborne. It has been a very long, cold winter.
In the new year, my friend Ryan and I traveled through Toronto, Burlington, and Montreal. There were many good times and too many adventures discovered to list all of them. I need to thank Ryan's aunt, Lynne Shewchuk, and her family for allowing us to stay with them during our time in Burlington, and all the help that they went out of their way to provide Ryan and I. We stayed in the Greater Toronto Area for about two weeks, visiting friends from the fire program and enjoying slightly warmer-than-Winnipeg temperatures.
The biggest shock came when I slept through my alarm before my flight home, and woke up with only 90 minutes until departure. I hastily compiled all my bags and taxied to the airport. Upon arrival, I was informed that baggage services was now closed and I would have to rebook another flight. Rather than spending $400 on a regular fare ticket to get home, I said I would rather leave my bags behind and jump on the airplane if it was still docked. The attendant said Oh you can check your bags in with baggage services downstairs. Why didn't they mention that before I stood in line?! I pushed my way to the front of the security lineup, had a pocket knife confiscated (oops) and ran to the original gate (A1) and then the revised gate (48 gates away) just in time before they disconnected the tunnel from the aircraft. Half the battle had been won. Now I'd have to contact someone in Montreal to ship my bags home. With a huge help from a friend with Sky Regional Air, Jordan Blair, my bags were on their way with Greyhound in a few days and everything worked out 100%.
After all the excitement of the Canadian vacation, I was back home to refocus on my pilots license. Still flying with Harv's Air, I made a deal with an instructor, Arnaud Lebon, to finish my Multi Engine training before he would leave to work for Thunder Airlines. We trained in a Piper Seminole, an aircraft with plenty of new systems to consider. It is still a fairly simple airplane, but with the addition of retractable landing gear, a constant speed propeller, low wings, and two engines to monitor, it introduced a few more levels of difficulty.
Most of my flying lately has been training so I haven't had many opportunities to take photos, as well as the snowy landscape makes most of the photos look similar. When it starts to warm up and color returns to our province, expect to see more awesome shots. For now, I'm going to begin training towards my Multi Engine IFR endorsement. I wrote the RCMP's aptitude battery on the weekend and scored well, so I'm hoping something can come of that too. Until next time, here's a gorgeous sunset.
My 2003 Corolla was destroyed at the end of November in a head on collision while I was driving to Selkirk. An incoming car lost control and crossed in front of me on the CIL highway. I was, for the most part, uninjured, but my whiplash damage from previous injuries revisited in full effect. I was thankful to have the Nav Canada Air Traffic Control panel interview completed before the stress of the accident. My success in the application process has yet to yield any training course or promise of a Nav Canada career, but I feel accomplished in how many steps I was able to surpass in the process.
December was a confusing month, and the head trauma didn't help any. I attended a handful of awesome ugly-sweater Christmas parties and an exciting New Years Eve bash towards the end of the year. Setting some higher standards for myself, I ensured that the new year will bring happiness and personal success. I wasn't able to put in too many flights because of the cold weather, but I brought a few friends up in the 172s at Harv's Air. During one of the engine start-ups, we had to scrape frost off the instruments to reveal the flight information that would soon become critical once airborne. It has been a very long, cold winter.
In the new year, my friend Ryan and I traveled through Toronto, Burlington, and Montreal. There were many good times and too many adventures discovered to list all of them. I need to thank Ryan's aunt, Lynne Shewchuk, and her family for allowing us to stay with them during our time in Burlington, and all the help that they went out of their way to provide Ryan and I. We stayed in the Greater Toronto Area for about two weeks, visiting friends from the fire program and enjoying slightly warmer-than-Winnipeg temperatures.
Nero, one of the family members of the Shewchuk family
Burlington Waterfront on Lake Ontario
Waiting with Ryan to grab the Go Train into Toronto
When it came time to head to Montreal, my friend, Justin Verot, was able to help us out by letting us crash at his place to better coordinate the early morning departure from Union Station.
Beautiful Sunrise on the train ride to Montreal
Downtown Montreal skyline as seen from Mount Royal
Montreal City Hall
Montreal Biodome
After all the excitement of the Canadian vacation, I was back home to refocus on my pilots license. Still flying with Harv's Air, I made a deal with an instructor, Arnaud Lebon, to finish my Multi Engine training before he would leave to work for Thunder Airlines. We trained in a Piper Seminole, an aircraft with plenty of new systems to consider. It is still a fairly simple airplane, but with the addition of retractable landing gear, a constant speed propeller, low wings, and two engines to monitor, it introduced a few more levels of difficulty.
Most of my flying lately has been training so I haven't had many opportunities to take photos, as well as the snowy landscape makes most of the photos look similar. When it starts to warm up and color returns to our province, expect to see more awesome shots. For now, I'm going to begin training towards my Multi Engine IFR endorsement. I wrote the RCMP's aptitude battery on the weekend and scored well, so I'm hoping something can come of that too. Until next time, here's a gorgeous sunset.
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