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Very creative. Nice work.

Sweeeet! At 7 hours or so, I was struggling with landings...how is that coming for you? I don't know if you are listening to the podcast...but if not, I just solo'd last week. I'm telling you...it just keeps getting better and better. Keep it up.

Happy Memorial Day, everyone! Episode 7 is out...the rest of my solo, and solo #2, in case anyone is interested. :)

That's what they tell me. I guess it just feels strange. Thanks, though. I'm still stoked I got to do this and it's been over a week!

You didn't, like me, think, "Who sent me up here alone...are they crazy?!?" :) Thanks for the words of encouragement.

Well, I don't know about this whole huskers thing...but definately congrats on the PPL! Wooooohooooooooo! That's awesome. Oh...and go Devils! :)

Hey, everyone! Looks like there's an outbreak of solos. I just did my first and second solo's this past week (Tuesday and Wednesday), but I'm just getting around to posting because I couldn't reach my keyboard from cloud 9. I just released the next epidsode in my Student Pilot Cast podcast...

Congrats! I just solo'd as well! Feels good, doesn't it. :D

It's great, isn't it?!?! Congrats, and welcome to the world of flying. I'm an infant in that area, myself.

How about a trip to nice, sunny, Arizona. The place I am training, Chandler Air Service (http://www.aerobatics.com/), actually has several biplanes and various tail draggers. They also do quite a bit of aerobatic training, and it's not too expensive. I think they have a Great Lakes that costs...

Wow, Dan. Who would have known that a CFI could be se eloquent. Mine just grunt and yell at me to, "Keep the nose up!" And, "Not so much back pressure!" :) Totally kidding, guys. I love CFI's. :) Kidding aside...It seems to me that noise abatement procedures around airports and other...

I wonder when the last time that airline pilot actually used it though. Sounds like an emotional security blanket to me. ;)

And, finally...one more episode (Episode 5-Coyote Ugly). Per listener request, I've included a lot more in cockpit audio. There's some pretty interesting stuff in this one, and definately some things that are changing my training a bit. As always, give me any feedback. Thanks. This episode...

I don't know about the trip there...but since I grew up on the central coast, I could be a virtual tour guide for that area once you turn north from LA. My home town is Lompoc (LPC). The airport isn't much to speak of, but in the spring, the flowers should be blooming and it would be an...

That's not very nice, Mike. Maybe its not their fault that they're overweight. ;) Okay...back to the regularly scheduled program.

PJ, I have heard that several times (and did happen to know that one from before I started training). I think there are a lot of RVs out here, and they sometimes fly in formation. A couple of small experimentals (I didn't catch the type) took off in formation while I was in the pattern at CHD...

Ahh...interesting. This makes more sense to me (i.e. the type thing), rather than where they will turn, etc. So, the followup to this is, has anyone heard "company traffic" used for different types? I know that in the cases I have heard it, the type is the same on both aircraft (either Piper...

Oh...one more question about this. Can anyone tell me (or guess) why it would matter that the traffic was from your own company (or school)? It still hurts just as bad when you smack into each other. :D If there is no good reason to know that the traffic is from the same company, why is the...

Thanks. I figured it must be something like that. SkyHog...when they've used it with you...were you in a rented plane? Maybe the company traffic was another plane from the same FBO? Just a crazy guess. In the cases that I've heard it, the "traffic" were training flights in fixed wing and helo...

I sometimes hear ATC use the phrase "company traffic" when referring to certain traffic (never to me...only others in the pattern), many times they are talking to helos, but not always. Sometimes the pilot re-uses the phrase when they report "in sight" or "looking", etc. What is meant by this...