If God meant man to fly, he would have given him more money.

All I want to do is solo... and I am just sick of these circuits and
landing fees! Unfortunately I came a bit late to my class, and knowing
by the fact that my teacher was checking her watch all the time... I
knew I was near, but allowed AD circuits time was soon over.

Circuits in LSZL, RW 26R

I spent pretty much the whole day at the airport, waking up earlier than usual we had saturday ground school very early... this was followed by two flight.

Taking off from LSZA, RW 19, we climbed to the bigger AD circuit requesting climb during downwind. We reported at N, and left the frequency. At Mezzo we reported with Locarno Traffic as the Tower is not used on weekends. We then performed 4 landings at LSZL, RW 26R with AD circuits at 2000'. We taxied after our last landing and paid the landing fees.
At LSZA we continued by doing a few more touch and go's.

Flight to Locarno (LSZL)

We took from RW 01 bound N (3000') to Locarno over the Ceneri pass. After leaving LSZA CTA, we reported with LSZL TWR, which gave us RW 08L with information U. Here we performed 5 touch and go's. We then had a full-stop and proceeded to the C office to pay landing fees.
Next step of our flight was taking off from RW 08L and gaining height,
to 3000' to clear Ceneri. We reported doing an orbit to gain height and
then left LSZL CTA at Ceneri. We contacted LSZA TWR in order to do a
straight in approach to RW 19. We did another touch and go before
landing at Lugano.

Information Z

ATIS LSZA 121.17

TWR  LSZA 120.25



Information U

ATIS LSZL     133.45

AFIS/TWR LSZL 134.82

GRN LSZL      121.70

Medical JAR/FAA

Since our local medic was injured in the Piper accident, my medical exam had been delayed... thus I performed it then in Zurich at Dr. Sze, really cool doctor and fun talking a bit about same interest. Blood, urine, eye tests, EKG...

Leaving Texas from KAUS

Well I got the job and will be starting some time in March! So on my way to the airport I decided, I should maybe check out their general aviation section. As this is the only airport in the area commercial and private is in the same airport.
Also there I could find a pilot store to buy a headset, something I never got to do in Miami. Also good to know some people here as I will be quite a bit back here and future flights are definately in sight :)

Cross Country Flight to Key West

Well, I had to cancel... time was running up on me, jet lag, no sleep so I spent the day with friends. I will be back in March so then I will definately do it!

N6654F a Piper Warrior II (PA-128-151)

The 2nd day of flying in Miami consisted of trying out a PA-128, mainly
because these are the planes I will be using in CH later on in my
training. Today we practiced again a bit of slow flight and power on and
off stalls and VOR tracking. Since the RW might have been a bit too
short for touch and go's (3000ft) we decided to do other stuff such as
steep turns (45'), S-turns around a road and turns around a point. Here
we had to take into consideration how steep our turn was at each step
because of the E wind.

Flying N6580D a C172N Skyhawk out of KHWO

N6580D is a 1979 LYCOMING/0-320 SERIES with 180 HorsePower Cessna 172N.
I flew dual with instructor Jamie Day. Exercises consisted mainly in
getting to know the plane. We headed westbound to the training area on
top of the everglades, there we performed power on and power off stalls
to imitate stall situations at takeoff and landing. This was followed by
intercepting 330' Outbound radian from Dolphin VOR (113.9) at 60'.

We then performed 3 crosswind touch and go's on RW 9L and a full stop
after right hand circuit on RW 9R.

Off to Florida and Texas

I am off to Miami for 5 days pleasure and then Texas for a job
interview. Miami will consist of some flying lessons out of North Kerry
airport in Hollywood and off course the usual hang out with friends, etc...
A view of Miami from the air:

First navigation flight and preparations for solo

Flight Plan

ATIS: LSZA 121.17, QNH 1028, Info J, RW19

CheckPoint	MT	DIS	EET	ETO	ATO	Alt	Remarks

LSZA						10		121.17,120.75

W		VAC	4	5	15	15	30

LUINO		290	7	5	20	19		124.92

INTRA		228	8	6	26	25	<25

LESA		178	5	4	30	29	

VARESE		091	11	8	37	36	>35

COMO		098	10	6	42	42	

1.LAGO		044	5	3	45	46	

2.LAGO		360	4	4	50	51	

MENAGGIO	061	8	5	56	55	

PORLEZZA	280	6	4	59	59	>30	120.25

E		254	7	5	04		30

LSZA		VAC		5		

..pre taxi checklist...
Lugano Tower, HBCDH.
>HDH, Lugano Tower.
HDH, PARKING E, INFORMATION J, REQUEST TAXI OUTBOUND W
>HDH, HOLDING O
..checklist...
> HDH, HOLDING O, READY FOR DEPARTURE
> HDH, BACKTRACK 19
> HDH, CLEAR TO TAKEOFF 19


Off to W, over Lago Maggiore, to Varese, Como, Lago di Como and thru
Porlezza back to Lugano. Used the VORs to see when we were at certain
radial positions (Milano, Sorenno).


We also did a few touch and go's (6) and had the longest flight upto now (1:36) and filled up the second page. Next page will be filled up flying in the USA :)

TOTAL FLYING TIME:  17'30"

LANDINGS:           90