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SPC #037-Windy Solo Makeup Flight

Published on December 6, 2010 By Bill Williams

This is episode 37 of the Student Pilot Cast. Join me as I take a solo makup flight in some windy conditions the morning of my Stage III Check. In this flight I stay in the pattern and practice performance landings and takeoffs. As the flight went on, the wind kept getting worse and worse to [...]

SPC #021-Good Freakin’ Flight

Published on December 14, 2008 By Bill Williams

I’m back SPC listeners!  I’ve had no time to produce new episodes for a while, but I forced myself tonight…and put off some other stuff.  So what we have is another training episode, Episode 21, “Good Freakin’ Flight”.  This is a solo flight that I took after returning from my Dive trip, and this was [...]

SPC #020-Tour de Phoenix-Part 2

Published on October 4, 2008 By Bill Williams

I’m back, after an exclusive one month tour of Europe, Scandinavia, and…no, that’s not true.  In fact, I’ve just been really busy, and haven’t had a chance to finish this episode up and send it out on the feed.  Bad me, I know.  So, we skipped September in the podcast…I’ll try to make it up [...]

SPC #019-Tour de Phoenix-Part 1

Published on August 29, 2008 By Bill Williams

Hello patient Student Pilot Cast listeners.  I’m back again with a training flight, which happens to be my first night flight…as well as a few other firsts.  We basically to take a tour of the Phoenix Valley at night.  Very cool. I broke this into two parts because it was a long flight with quite [...]

SPC #015-On Par with the VOR

Published on July 8, 2008 By Bill Williams

Shooting ‘em out rapid-fire, now, folks.  Here’s another episode of the Student Pilot Cast, number 15, about a flight in which we focused on VORs and Simulated Instrument Conditions (The Hood).  I had passed my Phase II Check, and I was starting on Phase III.  I hope you enjoy.

SPC #014-Stage II, That’s Who!

Published on July 6, 2008 By Bill Williams

Episode 14 is here!  Today we’ll follow a dual lesson that I had to prep for the Stage II Stage Check.  Now that I had been introduced to shorts and softs, and had some time to practice, it was time to finish stage II.  Before I could do this stage check, though, I had to [...]

SPC-Video #003-Reference This…

Published on July 6, 2008 By Bill Williams

It’s time for another video episode, episode 3, Reference This.  In this episode, I take a solo practice flight to the practice area to go over Ground Reference Maneuvers.  I’m including the smaller version again in this feed (320×240) because of the sheer size of the 640×480 versions (400 MB).  I’ve heard from a couple [...]

SPC #013-Ground Reference Revisited

Published on July 2, 2008 By Bill Williams

This is an episode about a solo flight I took to practice ground reference maneuvers.  I also take the opportunity to share portions of an email I received from David Allen, a future pilot who’s email summarized in an eloquent way what several people have said to me since I started this.  I asked David [...]

SPC #012-Who Said Anything About Short and Soft?

Published on June 25, 2008 By Bill Williams

Okay, we’re back to the lessons. As you can see from the title, at this point in my training I have started learning the performance takeoffs and landings sometimes referred to as “Shorts” and “Softs”.  Within 4 day’s time I had three dual lessons on these performance landings and takeoffs.  I also take a moment [...]

SPC-Video #002-On My Own

Published on June 18, 2008 By Bill Williams

Hey…look at this.  Finally a video episode!  It’s been a long time coming, I know.  I hope you enjoy it. There are some problems with the video which I explain a bit about in this episode, but I decided to use some of the video anyway as I think it will still be interesting.  Also, [...]