Decreased Weather Forecast Office staffing and loss of 2 radiosonde reporting locations in CONUS (Omaha, NE and Rapid City, SD) for winds / temperatures aloft analysis. Guess I'll have to update my analysis (www.incidentalfindings.org/posts/2024-1...). #rstats #dataviz #studentpilot #weather
Had to cancel student solo long XC for weather at one airport (the weather hates me) so went to practice area instead. But for the first time, my 360° steep turns ran into my own wake (3 out of 4 times)! (Landings were slightly less terrible, too.) Small victories for a #studentpilot.
Good news — figured out how to import a Google Earth map layer outlining the practice area into ForeFlight. Bad news — very clear that my last flight wandered a bit out of bounds. Did not violate any airspace, but it’s really inconvenient that air doesn’t have markings. #studentpilot
Just picked a fight in r/flying. Someone reporting errors in their fleet’s w+b sheet.
Discussion struck me as pretty pointless. Did math. The max error was equivalent to 1 lb error for backseat.
Hope passenger didn’t 
without telling because that’s the magnitude of error.
#avgeek #studentpilot
Flew for the first time in 2.5 weeks yesterday and solo for the first time since late December. I didn’t do very well at all. So disheartening. How do you watch and react (and not OVERreact) to everything at the same time? #studentpilot
Have modeled EVERY major performance calculation for this C172S. Can fetch METAR to autopopulate elev, baro, and temp. Handles PAlt, DAlt, headwinds. Calculates climb from field elev to goal altitude. Need good weather for #studentpilot solo long XC. Just wish I flew better. #avgeek #rstats #shiny
I made a #shiny app to do my C172S cruise performance calculations. I know apps out there already do this, but creating my own ensures I understand it fully. Thinking of adding takeoff and landing performance. Will make it easy to do the calcs every time. #studentpilot #rstats #datavis
Visualized cruise performance tables with plots for better intuition of how the numbers relate. The line plot uses numbers directly from the POH tables. The heat map is visualization of a calculated metric of nautical miles per gallon. Just being a #studentpilot #avgeek with #rstats #datavis
The remedy for get-there-itis is sound aeronautical decision making. What a role model for this #studentpilot.
Hopefully I will remember this incident someday when making a questionable go / no go decision.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ojwszrpcvhwuhl4nhwactd2y/post/3lj6jjyai3s2a
First flight in 3 weeks as a #studentpilot. Winds were friendly; wasso great to be in the air again. Unusual attitude recovery is FUN. Also had first attempts at short field landings -- one each good / barely 20-feet short / floated long. Have to work on that energy management.
Hmm, should tag this video for #studentpilot
Weather BASICS explained (EASY...
It’s been surprisingly effective to have a “daily habit” app remind me to study for my PPL at least 15 minutes every day. Before, it just seemed so huge and amorphous (and FAR AIM regs just aren’t much fun) that I procrastinated about doing anything. Making progress! #studentpilot
Just created a simple feed to find posts by and for student pilots -- should pick up all posts tagged with #studentpilot
Have been hoping for a BlueSky community for beginner aviators and perhaps this will help!
#aviation #avgeek
(feed icon is from FlightAware of the C172 I first soloed in 
)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qm2k6rvko6jfm2hd3j4k6e5n/feed/aaamypb2bgwza
Another #studentpilot here (but old and creaky), also looking for GA feeds. Most aviation feeds I’ve come across are for aviation photography (which is really cool), but hoping to find other beginners. KOWD C172
Bit the bullet to buy iPad mini. Last night's training flight had unplanned diversion. Didn't know radio freqs, runways, etc. What to do? - sectional chart in backseat/backpack in dark plane - struggling w/G1000 for info - iPhone in pocket with ForeFlight trial and all info. Success #studentpilot
Learning to fly is both incredible and disheartening. How long until the best thing I can say about my landings progresses beyond "survivable" and "plane not broken"? And how on earth did people find airports at night without a G1000? (Activating runway lights was very cool though) #studentpilot
Weather looks good for my 2nd ever night flight (dual short XC). Here’s hoping to not sucking as much as last time! #StudentPilot
Very excited — last minute scheduling for 1st ever night flight training tonight (I think this is attempt #6) Forecast is for 19F and maybe a little gusty. Haven’t flown in weeks. Reviewing / cramming! #StudentPilot
