Eric Gravel's video: Private Pilot Flight Training Lesson 20: Cross-Country to X01 Short-Field Take-offs Landings

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 @ 08:00 EDT Working towards obtaining my private pilot license. This is my twentieth training lesson flight (2.0 Hobbs Hour Today, 23.9 Total Hours) with 424 Aviation Inc, in Miami, FL. My certified flight instructor (CFI) is Joe Ferrera. The airplane used was a Cessna 172R, with tail number N994WW, out of Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport (KTMB). Today's lesson involved: - Cross-Country Flight - VFR Navigation *** THIS IS THE RAW FOOTAGE. I have only edited out the pre-flight check. *** I've left the video untouch so that it can be played in sync with the GPS Track replay that can be found at Gps4Sport.com. The link is provide further below. To view a 3D Replay of the GPS Ground Track synchronized to this video, go to: http://gps4sport.com/?a=TrackPlayerServer&i=1927 Time Marks: ------------------------------------- * Note: I've removed all the pre-flight checklists since that's always the same. (Click on any of the times below to jump to that particular section of the video) 00:35 - Departure ATIS Information 01:32 - Taxiing to Spot 2 03:18 - TG Comm - Taxi to runway 27R 05:35 - Engine Run-up Checklist 11:12 - TT Comm - Cleared for take-off 11:40 - Take-off Runway 27R 13:20 - TT Comm - Turn outside of crosswind traffic 13:54 - VFR Nav Plan & Sectional Chart 26:20 - Checkpoint: 40 Mile Bend (Tamiami Road) 30:29 - Checkpoint: Route 94 dipping South 34:03 - Checkpoint: Route 94 Southwest Bends 35:33 - Marco Island (MKY) ASOS Weather 37:25 - Listening to Everglades CTAF 43:17 - Checkpoint: Chokoloskee 45:29 - Over flying Everglades Airpark (X01) 47:16 - Short-field landing attempt 50:09 - Short-field landing attempt (instructor) 53:15 - Short-field landing attempt 56:47 - Short-field landing 1:06:09 - Short-field landing attempt 1:10:04 - Short-field landing 1:14:54 - Departing X10 for KTMB 1:25:44 - What problem will we have closer to airport? (cloud related) 1:27:40 - Diving through cloud layer to fly below it all 1:33:54 - Arrival ATIS information 1:43:15 - TT Comm - Ident 1:43:40 - TT Comm - Enter right downwind for runway 27R 1:46:34 - TT Comm - Traffic advisory 1:47:05 - TT Comm - Follow traffic on downwind 1:49:35 - TT Comm - Cleared to land 1:49:53 - Short-field landing (full stop) 1:52:59 - TT Comm - Contact ground 1:53:53 - TG Comm - Who else is calling? 1:54:08 - TG Comm - Taxi via A 1:54:24 - Taxiing to Spot 2