Sorry everyone, I passed my Private checkride this morning and felt the need to brag. ;D
You may now return to your regularly scheduled forum.
Congrats! :clap:
Cool! And encouraging to the rest of us.
Quote from: DC on August 25, 2011, 09:59:17 PM
Sorry everyone, I passed my Private checkride this morning and felt the need to brag. ;D
You may now return to your regularly scheduled forum.
Kinda cool to log in the PIC column without the "Solo" column at the same time, isn't it?
Quote from: JeffDG on August 25, 2011, 10:48:10 PM
Quote from: DC on August 25, 2011, 09:59:17 PM
Sorry everyone, I passed my Private checkride this morning and felt the need to brag. ;D
You may now return to your regularly scheduled forum.
Kinda cool to log in the PIC column without the "Solo" column at the same time, isn't it?
There is no distinction between the two in my logbook. It was very cool to fly with a very experienced pilot (i.e. the examiner), but still be the PIC and make the decisions though.
Congratulations: you have just received your license to learn. Have fun and fly safely.
And there are no uniforms in this thread.
Savor the moment, have fun, congrats! :clap:
Quote from: bosshawk on August 26, 2011, 02:03:09 AM
Congratulations: you have just received your license to learn. Have fun and fly safely.
And there are no uniforms in this thread.
Well, he does have to order CAP pilot wings now though >:D mini, large, embroidered? This could go on for pages now!
Quote from: DC on August 26, 2011, 12:28:26 AM
There is no distinction between the two in my logbook. It was very cool to fly with a very experienced pilot (i.e. the examiner), but still be the PIC and make the decisions though.
In that case, keep track of a couple of things if you ever think of doing your commercial:
(14CFR 61.129)
Quote(i) One cross-country flight of not less than 300 nautical miles total distance, with landings at a minimum of three points, one of which is a straight-line distance of at least 250 nautical miles from the original departure point. However, if this requirement is being met in Hawaii, the longest segment need only have a straight-line distance of at least 150 nautical miles; and
(ii) 5 hours in night VFR conditions with 10 takeoffs and 10 landings (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower.
Those two requirements need to be solo (ok, there's a new exception to that, but should be done solo). So if you hit those, note it in your remarks at least that it was done solo so you can establish you've met the requirements for the Commercial.
Depending on how much you intend on flying, I have one of those large leather bound logs. And keep in mind. You can log anything you want above and beyond what the FARs call for. There is nothing that says you cant have a "CD" column, "SAR", "CAP" or "Hours logged flying pink airplanes"
I have a couple of columns for things I want to keep track of specifically. SAR, Surveillance, NVG, Long Line. If you do mountains, make sure you note the elevations you flew. There is a huge difference between searching a 4500ft and searching at 13,000.
Quote from: DC on August 25, 2011, 09:59:17 PM
Sorry everyone, I passed my Private checkride this morning and felt the need to brag. ;D
You may now return to your regularly scheduled forum.
Congratulations! That's a great accomplishment few people can claim. Go out and enjoy it!
To add to some of the other comments about logging, if you can ever see yourself getting into some more advanced aircraft I would recommend getting in the habit of using an electronic log book. As you move along you'll be surprised some of the requests you might receive to get information about flight experience. Insurance providers often want detailed categorization of experience (sometimes at a ridiculous level of detail), and having an electronic copy of your logs with already categorized aircraft and flight environment types makes this easy. I use SafeLog and it allows one to track and report on a great many details about aircraft type, equipment, flight conditions, etc far beyond what is possible to track in a paper log.