Thats really neat that Ken and PJ grew up so close to me. About CPS, I agree, it is a nice little airport. It gets busy from time to time, but then there are other times when I'm sure the controllers would beg you to do some touch n' go's. I am really glad that I'm learning to fly at CPS, with having a control tower to give me that experience, having a reasonable amount of traffic to also give me that experience and also its location, close to STL Approach but not too far from getting away from Lambert's airspace that it becomes a drag. I'm not familiar with the 'patio' you are talking about PJ, but I'll ask around. Its also fun to be at CPS because all of the news helicopters fly out of there, as well as the traffic cessna, so thats neat, I think.
I live in Saint Louis, (most of my friends in my class are from out of town). If you are from Saint Louis or are familiar with the area, I live on "The Hill." The Italian part of town, although I am not Italian myself, its a nice place to live.
I am pretty sure that I want to become an airline pilot, but most of the instructors I know are not sure what exactly they want to do and where they want to take it, so I am not setting my sights and hopes on anything definite. But it would be neat in my mind to make it a career, because the you always have the option of making it casual/hobby as well.
I pulled out my logbook and added up to find out that I have 32.9 hours. Of that 4.9 is PIC (solo time). I went on two dual cross countries with my instructor this semester (1. Salem-Leckrone KSLO and 2. Centralia KENL practice diversion to Mount Vernon KMVN). My first solo cross country was to Vandalia (KVLA) and my second was to Pinckneyville (KPJY).
Yeah, I agree, the Tampico is fun to fly. It's made fun of a lot by students and instructors jokingly, but they all like it too. And to be honest they would love to show off the plane they fly to their non-pilot friends no matter what type of airplane it is. 105 is our cruise indicated airspeed, we do 90 in the pattern, so maybe it was a different tampico, who knows. The program our school has doesn't have us going up to the tobago and trinidad, but to a Piper Seminole and then a Piper Arrow (200HP, but not high performance).
How many hours do you guys have? What extent are you in aviation or do you want to be in aviation? Do you have any hints to help me through training?
Thanks everyone for your welcome and wishing me well in my training. Feel free give me tips, help me be a better and safer pilot, and ask me questions about my training or anything else, I love talking about it.
-krenmaster
