First Real Lesson

2 Years since my first introductory flight I decided to take the leap and commit to flight school. I decided to fly out of my "home" airport that I grew up near KCMA ( Camarillo, CA ) and I have been meeting with Sarah the flight school manager at CIA over the past couple weeks.

Sarah and I have decided that I would be training under the part 141 training program. ( I will explain 141 vs 61 in another post). Sarah paired me with my CFI (Certified Flight Instructor) Trevor and we planned to start at 10:30 am Monday.

I was excited and nervous the weekend before my first flight but, knew once I started it will be hard to stop. Since it has been a long time since the intro at Justice Aviation I needed to start fresh from the beginning. I met with Trevor Monday and we hit it off immediately. Trevor and I sat down to go over what we will be learning in the part 141 course. He explained to me what we will be practicing for the first couple lessons and we went out to the plane to start flying. Similar to my intro flight Trevor had me read the Pre-Flight checklist while he explained to me why we check each and every part of the plane before takeoff. After the Pre-Flight I once again was able to taxi to the runway and once cleared Trevor lifted the plane off the ground.

Trevor showed me how to fly strait and level and we practiced turns. We also practiced climbs, descents, and climbing/descending turns. I am very surprised how easy the Cessna Skyhawk flys. It seems to want to fly itself and at times I was able to set the plane for level flight and let go. We flew all over the area around Camarillo and before I knew it we were back on the ground going over what we had learned. I am very excited to have recieved my first entry into my logbook and cant wait till I can fly again!

Thanks and Fly Safe

Chris