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Where do you think I got all the info??:goofy::goofy:

I MAY have spent far too long last night setting up custom alerts in FlightRadar24 for every 747SP still in service...Plus the Lufthansa 747 with the old-school livery, and John Travolta's planes, and Trump, and any other famous people I could find.

Relatively little then? Hahaha. I like to imagine it has a psychological complex about the other 747s.

The SP! NICE! What a weird little airplane. That's the one I got sucked into reading about the most. Especially this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006 YEESH. And its really weird post-incident history. It was about the time I considered setting up alerts on FlightRadar24...

Who has two thumbs and was supposed to be studying for the Private Pilot written exam and/or drafting another OneZuluDelta blog post last night, but instead, for two hours, read articles describing the differences between 747 types? This guy. ‪#‎avgeek‬ ‪#‎PROPcrastination‬...

Thanks for enjoying! I think I just didn't realize HOW much rudder I would need, so either I didn't put enough in initially, or I relaxed it too soon, like you said. But definitely no ailerons. D'oh! The other great thing about my CFI is his corrections are always very calm and collected, with...

DRAMATIC INTRO: "I hadn’t put in any aileron correction for the crosswind, and I wasn’t on top of the rudders, and things just got away from me." http://onezuludelta.com/cross-country-to-block-island

"The airspeed still increasing, thrill in my stomach mixing with fear in my mouth, like bombing down a dirt road in a high-school friend’s pickup truck." http://onezuludelta.com/even-unusual-er-attitudes Couldn't fly last week, can't fly this week either. Time to blog.

WHAT! Two posts in two days! Unusual attitudes! AKA (how I explain it to my non-pilot friends to get a rise out of them) FLIPPING THE AIRPLANE AROUND WITH MY EYES CLOSED! http://onezuludelta.com/little-lightbulb-lessons

Amen to both of you. I agree, navigating around Long Island is WAY too easy. There's the ocean, there's the sound, there's the city. I'm addressing this in a future post. I'm also asking my CFI that the rest of my cross-countries (yes, I'm still running behind in blogging) be across the sound to...

I shared some thoughts here on my second solo, on flight training in the NYC area, and the results of training in the most expensive, most difficult, most pain-in-the-ass area in the US (Spoiler Alert: I love it!). http://onezuludelta.com/why-i-love-flight-training-in-nyc

SOLOSOLOSOLOSOLOSOLOSOLOSOLOSOLOSOLOSOLO!!!!!!!!!!! I soloed. Read all about it! "I wish I could say there was something more exciting that happened, but I think it speaks to the professionalism and teaching skill of my CFI that this felt like a routine flight. It was personally thrilling...

I looooooove Anchorage! The only advice I have is for your time off, though. Hit up F Street Station for a beer and a halibut sandwich! It's a "pilot bar" (or used to be) but all the crews have plastered their patches all over the place, really cool to see. Or Humpy's for more seafood. The...

Round and round and round we go! The story of 15 touch-and-goes in one lesson: http://onezuludelta.com/touch-and-go-and-go I feel like I need to do this again before my checkride. It was so nice to just get in the groove and knock landings out, one after another.

First night flight last night, short solo cross-country today! I'm flying too much to blog! This is insane, can't believe the hours are building up so fast!

Dual night flight Thursday (56nm one way: FRG-SWF), then solo cross-country Friday (72nm one way: FRG-GON). Things are happening really fast now!!!

AMEN.

You read my mind! I was planning on mentioning my instructor's insistence on on-runway crosswind corrections, and here we go! Along with some musings/bitchings about weather: http://onezuludelta.com/getting-skunked-by-weather-during-my-lesson Maybe after this, I'll get checked out in the...

Even though it is a lesson, in which one is supposed to learn things, when I finally figure something out I feel a little dumb that I haven't been doing it that way the whole time. Case in point: crosswind landings - http://onezuludelta.com/oh-so-thats-how-you-land-in-a-crosswind This PPL...

Speaking of practice tests and study materials, a woman I only know from Instagram passed her checkride and then mailed me all of her books! What an incredible community, that would show support like that for someone they had never met in real life! I'll have to remember to pass that kind of...