Flight Experience 4.1 – Formation Flying 101 – Video blog

By |2018-02-15T14:32:57+08:00January 21st, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

Short video of our formation flying experiment I did with another pilot in a Cessna 172. Events of the day are described in my Aircraft Experience 4 - First Flight to Kill Devil Hills post. If the video doesn't work in China you can see it in YouKu at Formation Flying in Cessna 172

Flight Experience 4 – First Flight to Kill Devil Hills

By |2018-02-15T14:33:42+08:00January 19th, 2018|Aircraft, Aviation, Flight Experience, Flight Training|

It was the closest I have been to another aircraft while flying one. ∼Vesa Aircraft Experience 4 - Cessna 172 I did my flight training in a flight school called North American Institute of Aviation (also called NAIA). The school was located in small town called Conway in South Carolina, United States. I spent about a year there starting with private pilot training, then instrument rating training, followed by commercial pilot, multi-engine, and flight instructor license training. Private pilot training was done in a two seat Cessna 152. Once I received my private pilot license I moved on to a slightly bigger Cessna 172. It had a more powerful engine and could carry four people instead of two. Unlike most of the C152's that we had, the C172's were approved for instrument flying; meaning we could find our way to different airports just by using different navigational instruments instead of [...]

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