Passed our commercial check rides today. Warning: Long post ;-)

On 2008-03-18, Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
The real benefit of the maneuvers is becoming master of your aircraft.
You have bent it to your will (maybe "bent" is a bad choice of words)

This was what I'd always understood as the true goal of the commercial
meneuvers. However, I'll definitely say that you could have picked a much
better way to put it, especially since (even though I'll never hold a second
class medical) I do plan to work to that level of proficiency in the
Zodiac...
--
Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (FRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC (ordered 17 March, delivery 2 June)

Way to go Hai. Congrats to both you and Rick. I just passed my CP
written and am hoping to start the flying portion in late April. Thanks
for the great writeup.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Student - CP-ASEL

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

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On Mar 19, 1:03*am, Jack Allison
wrote:
Way to go Hai. *Congrats to both you and Rick. *I just passed my CP
written and am hoping to start the flying portion in late April. *Thanks

Jack,
Congratulations on passing your CP written exams. IMO, this is the
hardest part of the training not so much because of the materials but
because it is so darn tedious and boring. It was like eating 100%
whole bran cereals without any milk ;-).
For my flight training, I found two books being quite useful. One
is the ASA visualized flight maneuvers handbook. It's good to have it
as a reference to review just before doing each maneuver. Another one
is the "Flying the Commercial Flight Test" by Ron Fowler. I bought
this book used by searching through www.campusi.com for something like
$5 including shipping and handling.
If you can get an instructor to give you an introductory
commerical maneuver training session, you can go out and do some
practices either on your own or with another pilot. This will give
you a feel for those maneuvers before starting the official training.
Some portions of the maneuvers are just review or improvements of
'regular' stuffs like stalls, slow flights, short field, soft field
take off and landing. The 180 degrees off approach is just a standard
power off landing with precision.
Have fun with your training. The

Thanks for the book recommendations Hai. I'll have to check into them.

As for the maneuvers, one advantage I have is that one of my airplane
partners passed his commercial check ride about 4-5 months back so I can
learn some of the basics in our plane from him. I'm looking forward to
the flying part. Everyone I've talked to says it's a ton of fun.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Student - CP-ASEL

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

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