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Home Cockpit (6)

7/30/09 •

Many private pilots have logged hundreds, even thousands of hours using Microsoft Flight Simulator. I started flying with this software on my PC many years ago. When I started taking real flying lessons I wanted to make the experience even more real so I decided to build a home cockpit.
My first attempt was very basic. [...]

Swiss Mountain Flying (20)

7/10/09 •

Today I flew in the mountains of Switzerland (and France). I flew with an instructor and a friend. The instructor helped me navigate because this was my first time flying in the Swiss mountains and my friend took video footage and photos of our adventure.
We departed the Geneva airport in the morning and flew over [...]

50% Off Flight Instruction (1)

6/29/09 •

Yesterday I flew again with my instructor from the Aeroclub de Genève from the Geneva airport up to Yverdon in Switzerland. Yverdon is a small town at the southern tip of Lake Neuchatel. It wasn’t a long flight. We got there in less than 30 minutes.
The purpose of the flight was to do some practice landings on [...]

Aeroclub de Genève (0)

6/25/09 •

Today was my first flight with the Aeroclub de Genève. It was amazing!
Actually, not only was this my first flight with the club, but it was also my first flight in Switzerland, first takeoff/landing on a grass runway and my first time flying a Cessna 172 with a FADEC engine using Jet-A fuel.
FADEC stands for [...]

Paris Air Show 2009 (5)

6/21/09 •

Paris Air Show 2009

On Sunday, June 21, I attended the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport. Le Bourget is the airport where Charles Lindbergh landed in 1927 after his 35 hour solo Atlantic crossing. By the way, he was 25 years old at the time!
The highlight of the show, and the main reason I [...]