Eric Gravel's video: Private Pilot Flight Training Lesson 29: Solo long Cross Country - Part 1 of 4

Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 08:30 EST Working towards obtaining my private pilot license. This is my twenty ninth training lesson flight (3.7 Hobbs Hour Today, 41.6 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 Miami Executive (formerly Kendall-Tamiami Executive) Airport (KTMB). Today's flight: A long solo cross-country flight of 257nm from Tamiami (KTMB) overflying Belle Glade (X14) and Pahokee (PHK) and landing at Okeechobee (KOBE) where I had breakfast. Then on to overflying La Belle (X10) before landing at Immakolee (KIMM) and on to overfly Everglades City (X01) and the Shark Valley Tower before returning to Tamiami (KTMB). The GPS Track is still available, at Gps4Sport.com, for replay but will not be synchronized to the video. The link is provide further below. To view a 3D Replay of the GPS Ground Track, go to: http://gps4sport.com/?a=TrackPlayerServer&i=2146 Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGxnA8gqBTc Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF9YxkWfL1Y Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKb8r5sfz8 Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfP0JtxnWyc 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) 00:30 - Pre-flight Checks 05:43 - KTMB Departure ATIS Information Zulu 07:26 - Creating Garmin GPS flight plan 12:00 - Taxiing to Spot 2 14:15 - TC Comm - Northwest departure VFR 15:16 - Taxiing to runway 27R 16:37 - Engine run-up checklist 21:42 - TG Comm - Monitor Tower 22:19 - TT Comm - Runway 27R, Cleared for take-off 26:03 - TT Comm - Frequency change approved 27:34 - MR Comm - Attempting to open flight plan 28:56 - MR Comm - Flight plan activated 37:15 - Talk: Enter MIA's 4000' airspace (pie slice NW) 39:54 - Talk: Morning planning 42:00 - Talk: Enroute flight altitudes 42:38 - Talk: Living in the Everglades 43:19 - POI: I-75 checkpoint 44:34 - Talk: Questions & request about video recording flight 46:08 - Talk: Serving with Civil Air Patrol 48:21 - Talk: 406 MHz ELT 50:43 - Talk: Farm field fires 51:57 - Talk: Flock of bird. Cessna bird strike through windshield 53:35 - POI: North New River Canal checkpoint 56:59 - Talk: Fire and Hero3+ cameras