After researching every single flight school at the airport I will be using for my lessons. I finally settled on Royal Aviation at John Wayne Airport in Orange County. I’m looking forward to jump starting my private pilot training. My instructor told me that I need these books from Amazon to get started on studying the material.
I picked Royal Aviation because they have a wide selection of trainer planes, and I really liked their upbeat attitude when I walked in to talk with the instructors.
Also, learning at an airport with major commercial airline traffic, like John Wayne does, provides the advantage of having to learn how airports with commercial traffic handle small and general aviation traffic. That definitely isn’t farm flying. The experience of flying there seems a bit overwhelming when you see an Alaksa Air 737, 3 Southwest 737s arrivals and departures, and a 757 taxiing toward you from it’s gate.
My instructor also told me that the runways at John Wayne airport are built too close together by today’s standards, because of that the air traffic controllers have to ensure that you maintain separation from large jets. Commercial airplanes give off their own wind turbulence known as wake turbulence. If you are not careful to avoid the wake turbulence, it can be dangerous.
Even though it is a challenge, I welcome this kind of flying, and I’m ready to tackle it head on. My goal is to get at least my Private Pilot certificate this year, but I certainly don’t want to stop there. For me, nothing beats the feeling of flying, and learning in Southern California means that as a Private Pilot I can go to a bunch of cool places. I already have plans to go to Vegas, Phoenix, Lake Havasu, San Francisco, Monterrey, and a bunch of other places. Catalina anyone?
Private Pilot Lessons Kick-Off
I picked Royal Aviation because they have a wide selection of trainer planes, and I really liked their upbeat attitude when I walked in to talk with the instructors.
Also, learning at an airport with major commercial airline traffic, like John Wayne does, provides the advantage of having to learn how airports with commercial traffic handle small and general aviation traffic. That definitely isn’t farm flying. The experience of flying there seems a bit overwhelming when you see an Alaksa Air 737, 3 Southwest 737s arrivals and departures, and a 757 taxiing toward you from it’s gate.
My instructor also told me that the runways at John Wayne airport are built too close together by today’s standards, because of that the air traffic controllers have to ensure that you maintain separation from large jets. Commercial airplanes give off their own wind turbulence known as wake turbulence. If you are not careful to avoid the wake turbulence, it can be dangerous.
Even though it is a challenge, I welcome this kind of flying, and I’m ready to tackle it head on. My goal is to get at least my Private Pilot certificate this year, but I certainly don’t want to stop there. For me, nothing beats the feeling of flying, and learning in Southern California means that as a Private Pilot I can go to a bunch of cool places. I already have plans to go to Vegas, Phoenix, Lake Havasu, San Francisco, Monterrey, and a bunch of other places. Catalina anyone?
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