These category contains all my pages about flying an aircraft, getting my PPL license and my general aviation experiences. These are a bit off-topic from the rest of my website but very fun to document. Check out my Flight Lesson Tracker for the actual progress.
1.7 Stalls 30-01-2026 to be determined date in the future Introduction Today it was my first flight lesson in 3 months, after succeeding in the following items: The weather was our bottleneck, once again today. It was a cool and cold winter day with snow from earlier this week. This Read more…
1.7 Stalls 03-11-2025 to be determined date in the future Introduction In lesson 7, we were supposed to do the Stalls exercise, but the weather was not good enough for that. If we are exercising Stalls, we want at least 2500 feet altitude, but the first layer of (overcast) clouds Read more…
1.6 Slow Flight13-10-202520-10-2025 Introduction One of the harder lessons so far, slow flight. The purpose of this lesson is to fly slowly, almost on the minimum airborne speed we can achieve in the Cessna 172. The first time we did the lesson, this did not went as planned as we Read more…
Lesson 1.5 Airwork #3 26-09-2025 Introduction In this lesson we did some airwork exercises including theory briefing for these exercises: Basic climbing and descending to specific altitude When flying the plane, we will normally cruise at about 95 knots (175 km/u). Maybe we want to increase or decrease our altitude, Read more…
Lesson 1.4 – Airwork 2 02-09-2025 Introduction We started off by reviewing the previous stuff. Then we did go further into the theory of nose attitude. In flight we did some exercises like slow flight, effect of throttle to the nose attitude, gliding and trimming. First we discussed some theory: Read more…
Lesson 1.3 Airwork 1 22-08-2025 In this flight, I have learned how to perform the preflight inspection myself by performing the walk around with a scheme and performing al the steps. In this first checklist item, we search for reasons why we would not want to fly. To describe this Read more…
Lesson 1.2 Effect of controls 08-08-2025 Introduction In this lesson, we went more into the technical limitations of the Cessna 172 aircraft. Also we did some slow-flight exercises to be somewhat ahead of schedule and we had some spare time. Limitations The most important limitations of the Cessna 172 aircraft Read more…
Lesson 1.1 Basics Date: 25-07-2025 Introduction In my first flight lesson for my Private Pilot Lesson, I have been introduced to multiple aspects of flying. In the past, around 3 years before this first PPL lesson, I did a trial lesson where I only controlled the plane at around 2500 Read more…
This page contains all notes of the Aircraft Genreral Knowledge course. The airframe (14) The frame of a plane The wings (14) We could have two types of wings: The piston engine (15) In planes, the most used engine type is a four-stroke (viertakt) gasoline engine. Four strokes means that Read more…
