http://johnherreshoff.com/blog Details of my flight training experience at Skymates in Arlington, TX Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:33:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here’s a short list of some FBO’s that I’ve had the pleasure of visiting around the country since I started training at Skymates. I highly recommend any of these FBO’s. BMG Aviation – KBMG This has got to be one of the best FBO’s I’ve ever been to in my life. When ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=40 Done, finally. Today I took my CFI add on check ride, making it the last check ride I’ll do for a while. In the last week I’ve done my MEI add on and CFI add on. Not much to really report about either of these rides; I was over prepared and ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=39 At the rate I’m moving right now, I’m going to just be a CFII for the rest of my professional career. We’ve had the MEI ride canceled twice, and we keep pushing back the CFI ride because of it. I need to get the crap out of Texas! Skymates has rocked ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=38 Finish the CFII as initial practical today, finally. Got to the FSDO and we started with explaining how I would teach a student to do DME arc’s. I explained to him my DME trend method (turn 090 from the radial at the proper DME and correct in the DME for trend). ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=37 Passed the CFII initial oral with the FSDO on Tuesday. Here’s a rundown of how things went. I got there and the inspector asked me for all the documents that you need for a practical. You know, pilots license, medical, endorsements, written reports. WRITTEN REPORTS!? I managed to leave them on ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=36 Me and the guy I’m living with here at Skymates managed to snag a Seminole for the weekend (rare we can take it for that long), so we decided to take a long cross country. We nailed it down to Michigan, Orlando or Arizona. We finally decided to go to ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=35 Started doing a little bit of multi time building with Austin. We made a flight out to KABI for some BBQ. We ended up dodging thunderstorms the whole way there and back. This is the first experience either of us have had with dealing with thunderstorms in a terminal environment, ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=34 Did a little ground this morning, then the guy that is doing my CFII ground had to run to a doctors appt and I got to hang with another instructor to get some time in the right seat. It’s really, really weird over there right now. When I walked out ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=33 Not much to update on these days, I’ve entered the boring life of writing lesson plans and learning how to teach instrument students. I guess I could tell people about what goes into a lesson plan, and that might happen right now; but right now I’m taking most my time ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=32 CFII ground was supposed to start today, but that didn’t happen. Walter (the guy that will be doing my initial CFII rating) had to go for a Part 141 check ride so Skymates can do Part 141 training, which means that I won’t start until tomorrow sometime. I’m taking today ... http://johnherreshoff.com/blog/?p=31