Awesome video!! If I am not mistaken I saw you got your PPL on sunrises facebook! Congrats! Managed to get mine just a couple days before you on Xmas eve and drove home from school and took my parents and friends out of john wayne to camarillo. When I get back I am hoping I can do this flight it looks awesome! Congrats on the PPL and safe flying!
Hey Warren. Thanks for the note. I just looked at the Facebook photo. They snapped that right after my checkride. I look happy, but a little beat up. My son is in his freshman year in college too. He started training with me, but high school classes and athletics got in the way and he hung it up for a bit. Hopefully he'll get back to it some day. Congratulations on your PPL!
timwitt94 We left at oh dark thirty so not really an issue until I encountered the rising sun on my turn to final. And then, faced with this dangerous situation, I just used my nature-given sunglasses and squinted my eyes a bit. Miracle I didn't crash. ;)
Joe Andras Ahh, I see. I say that because when I was in flight school they told me that sunglasses are one of the most vital pieces of equipment any pilot should have. And you should have on you at least three different types of sunglasses, for different light exposure. But hey, great landing and great vid!
Interesting on the sunglasses. I certainly used them, and still do, but certainly wasn't an emphasis. Just seemed common sense. What was challenging was finding reasonably high-quality sunglasses that weren't polarized. I found that polarized lenses would darken the glass panels so much that I couldn't read them. Happy flying!
Ya that noise tying can be annoying for some pilots but it doesn't wake us up that live in the departure/arrival path
Awesome video!! If I am not mistaken I saw you got your PPL on sunrises facebook! Congrats! Managed to get mine just a couple days before you on Xmas eve and drove home from school and took my parents and friends out of john wayne to camarillo. When I get back I am hoping I can do this flight it looks awesome! Congrats on the PPL and safe flying!
Hey Warren. Thanks for the note. I just looked at the Facebook photo. They snapped that right after my checkride. I look happy, but a little beat up. My son is in his freshman year in college too. He started training with me, but high school classes and athletics got in the way and he hung it up for a bit. Hopefully he'll get back to it some day.
Congratulations on your PPL!
No sunglasses?.. That's kinda dangerous, don't you think?
timwitt94 We left at oh dark thirty so not really an issue until I encountered the rising sun on my turn to final. And then, faced with this dangerous situation, I just used my nature-given sunglasses and squinted my eyes a bit. Miracle I didn't crash. ;)
Joe Andras Ahh, I see. I say that because when I was in flight school they told me that sunglasses are one of the most vital pieces of equipment any pilot should have. And you should have on you at least three different types of sunglasses, for different light exposure. But hey, great landing and great vid!
Interesting on the sunglasses. I certainly used them, and still do, but certainly wasn't an emphasis. Just seemed common sense.
What was challenging was finding reasonably high-quality sunglasses that weren't polarized. I found that polarized lenses would darken the glass panels so much that I couldn't read them.
Happy flying!
Been flying for 30 yrs. Never use sunglasses
Technically not a cross-country flight :-) Only 32 NM.
Nah. It's a cross-country flight, just a short one, i.e. not one > 50 nm that can be used for qualifying for a private pilot's certificate. ;)