Flying

Where I train

I fly Cessna 172s at Triad Aviation Academy at KGSO in Greensboro, North Carolina. I have logged over 70 hours, including solo cross country and night flights, and I completed ground school through Sporty's.

What I am comfortable with

Most of my cross country planning has been around KGSO, KTTA, and KMWK. I am comfortable requesting and working under VFR flight following, handling ATC radio work, navigating with the GNS 430, identifying VOR and NDB stations, and flying the 172 by its published V speeds.

Why it belongs on an engineering site

Flying is the reason the Aviation Weather Display exists. I check METARs before I fly, and wanting that information on a screen on my desk rather than inside an app is what turned into an embedded project.

It has also changed how I work. A preflight is a checklist you run the same way every time precisely because you will eventually be tired, or rushed, or certain you already checked. Aviation assumes people make mistakes and builds the procedure around that assumption instead of around good intentions. That is a better model for engineering than trusting yourself to be careful.

Where I am now

The FAA written exam is the next milestone, and it is what I am studying for. Training has been paused while I have been at school.