Sorry that it has been quite a while since my last post. I have been flying as much as usual. Unfortunately, I have been too busy to write about it.
I aspire to change that going forward in the coming weeks/months...
A couple of weeks ago, I had a particularly great weekend of flight. I did the Cirrus recurrent training, which is known as CPPP in Lakeland. I have done this program several times before and I am always amazed at how much "new stuff" I get out of it each time. But this time the real treat was before the actual training began...
As I was about to leave for the airport for the short ride from Tampa to Lakeland, Rich, who is a personal friend and instructor (Rich) called me and asked if I wanted to join him and a couple of other instructors for lunch.
Naturally, all pilots love the proverbial $100 hamburger! So we met for lunch at Ocala. During lunch, Rich suggested that we do a formation flight on the way back to Lakeland.
Now this is NOT a typical casual conversation amongst my usual pilot buddies that I fly with.
Aside from me, we had 2 Cirrus planes, 3 professional Cirrus instructors and 2 of the instructors were former military jet pilots! (It was rather cool to see the Marine and the Air Force Airman cooperating like that!!)
So on the way here is a short clip of what I did:
I say "I did" because I was really sitting left seat and doing the flying with Rich sitting in the right and guiding me like a teleprompter.
It was such a cool experience, that I am now determined to go do some more formal training on formation flying!
Cheers,
== T.J.==
I aspire to change that going forward in the coming weeks/months...
A couple of weeks ago, I had a particularly great weekend of flight. I did the Cirrus recurrent training, which is known as CPPP in Lakeland. I have done this program several times before and I am always amazed at how much "new stuff" I get out of it each time. But this time the real treat was before the actual training began...
As I was about to leave for the airport for the short ride from Tampa to Lakeland, Rich, who is a personal friend and instructor (Rich) called me and asked if I wanted to join him and a couple of other instructors for lunch.
Naturally, all pilots love the proverbial $100 hamburger! So we met for lunch at Ocala. During lunch, Rich suggested that we do a formation flight on the way back to Lakeland.
Now this is NOT a typical casual conversation amongst my usual pilot buddies that I fly with.
Aside from me, we had 2 Cirrus planes, 3 professional Cirrus instructors and 2 of the instructors were former military jet pilots! (It was rather cool to see the Marine and the Air Force Airman cooperating like that!!)
So on the way here is a short clip of what I did:
I say "I did" because I was really sitting left seat and doing the flying with Rich sitting in the right and guiding me like a teleprompter.
It was such a cool experience, that I am now determined to go do some more formal training on formation flying!
Cheers,
== T.J.==
TJ, hopefuly I don't sound like a dick by offering a couple of ideas for improvement...
ReplyDelete#1 prop in the logo rotates in the opposite direction of the shape of the blades, is that ok?
#2 it appears that the audio is right channel only
@ザイツェヴ: Hmmm... thx 4 the suggestions!
ReplyDelete1. The logo may not be mechanically precise... I just thought looked cool that way!
2. The audio I must have made some mistake while rendering.... (But not sure how to fix)
Fun! Nothing like a little formation flight every now and then - I love doing that in the Cub/T-Craft.
ReplyDeleteFYI - audio seems to be working in both channels on my PC.