For those who don't know or don't care, when I'm not in grad school, playing MxO or studying/homework, I fly. I am a pilot and I try to fly at least once a week. Today I was going to go to an aircraft graveyard called Maxton. That was the plan anyways. Today I rented out N3663R, a Piper Cherokee 180. However, as the pictures will show, something things don't always work out as planned. In my years of flying, the phrase "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" has stuck to my mind. Now on to the pictures!
Here we see my map, my flight plans and weather. The flight plan was to go from Concord Regional, to Maxton, and then to Monroe, where I would drop off a friend of mine so he can pick up a Beechcraft Bonanza, then I would go back to Concord. It took me an hour and half to plan this. There's a lot of calculation involved in this.
Here's the aircraft that I rent out N3663R.
Here's the cockpit, as you can see I already got everything set up. It's amazing I am the most disorganized person I know, and yet when it comes to aviation, I'm a very neat and organized person, go figure.
Well crap in a hat, I do my pre-flight inspection (that is where I go over the aircraft, look at the various moving parts, the engine, oil, fuel etc.) and I find that the Alternator Belt has broken.
So what's the plan now? Take this aircraft down to Monroe to be fixed, assuming that it has enough battery power to make it. Here is my checklist, along with some other stuff that I use during flight.
So the aviation Gods doesn't hate us too much because we were able to get the engine started and make it down to Monroe. The radios did cut off as we taxied off the runway though and we had to use my friend's backup hand-held radio.
After filling out some paper work and checking on the Bonanza, we board the Bonanza, my friend was going to fly and I was a passenger. (I'm not rated for this type of aircraft so legally I can't fly it.) Here we see the panel of the Bonanza
Taking off to go back to Concord.
Some people wonder why I invest so much time, energy, and money into aviation which is expensive and does require a lot of effort and time. Well ladies and gentlemen, this is why.
Here we are approaching Concord.
And we have a bit of a crosswind. No you're not seeing things, the nose is to the right of the center line, we have a bit of a crosswind today.
This has been MetaLogic's aviation adventure! Please make sure all seats are in the upright position, and tray in their up and lock position. Carry ons may have shifted during flights, and thank you for flying Matrix airline.
Here we see my map, my flight plans and weather. The flight plan was to go from Concord Regional, to Maxton, and then to Monroe, where I would drop off a friend of mine so he can pick up a Beechcraft Bonanza, then I would go back to Concord. It took me an hour and half to plan this. There's a lot of calculation involved in this.
Here's the aircraft that I rent out N3663R.
Here's the cockpit, as you can see I already got everything set up. It's amazing I am the most disorganized person I know, and yet when it comes to aviation, I'm a very neat and organized person, go figure.
Well crap in a hat, I do my pre-flight inspection (that is where I go over the aircraft, look at the various moving parts, the engine, oil, fuel etc.) and I find that the Alternator Belt has broken.
So what's the plan now? Take this aircraft down to Monroe to be fixed, assuming that it has enough battery power to make it. Here is my checklist, along with some other stuff that I use during flight.
So the aviation Gods doesn't hate us too much because we were able to get the engine started and make it down to Monroe. The radios did cut off as we taxied off the runway though and we had to use my friend's backup hand-held radio.
After filling out some paper work and checking on the Bonanza, we board the Bonanza, my friend was going to fly and I was a passenger. (I'm not rated for this type of aircraft so legally I can't fly it.) Here we see the panel of the Bonanza
Taking off to go back to Concord.
Some people wonder why I invest so much time, energy, and money into aviation which is expensive and does require a lot of effort and time. Well ladies and gentlemen, this is why.
Here we are approaching Concord.
And we have a bit of a crosswind. No you're not seeing things, the nose is to the right of the center line, we have a bit of a crosswind today.
This has been MetaLogic's aviation adventure! Please make sure all seats are in the upright position, and tray in their up and lock position. Carry ons may have shifted during flights, and thank you for flying Matrix airline.
