HIGH PERFORMANCE ENDORSEMENT

Friday, June 30 2006 @ 02:23 PM EDT

A high performance endorsement is required to fly any aircraft with an engine providing more than 200 horsepower (the duchess doesn't count since it has a total of 360 horsepower but only 180 for each engine). I need one for a flight I'm planning to do in the next couple of months, and the flight school I'm at here in Ft Pierce doesn't do it. We've taken a couple of flights up to a flight school in Daytona Beach who have a very cheap Cessna 182 for hire for only $144. A 182 is basically a larger version of the cessna 172 in which I did my private pilots licence, and with a 230 horsepower engine. Daytona Beach is a big airport right next to the race track for which daytona is famous, and a race was going as we flew in!



On the first visit the plane wouldn't start, and we had to return the next day. This time it started first time! The plane was only a couple of years old (possibly the first plane I've flown which was younger than me!) with a full Garmin G1000 glass *censored*pit. We flew for 1.6 hours doing a few manouvers, landings and a couple of approaches, mainly getting used to the Glass. It's a totally different environment and takes some getting used to. I also had a play with the autopilot, which was good fun. Pretty much the entire flight can be programmed in, even an ILS or localizer approach, and you fly by pushing buttons and turning knobs.

I posed for a pic and back to FPR.

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