International Pilot Academy "Pilot for a Day"
This quick image gallery documents a short morning at the International Pilot Academy in Carp Ontario (on February 9, 2013), where Jenn procured a "Pilot for a day" Groupon for me for my Birthday.

A very friendly Jules Selwan first gave me a brief bit of ground school. Then, we retrieved some headsets and headed into the hangar to meet our aircraft - a very clean-looking Cessna 172. After a bit of shoveling at the hangar entrance (we had just received a fresh accumulation of snow the day before), we rolled the plane out into the bright sunshine and were soon on our way.
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Carp Airport
Instruction from Jules
Classroom Prop
C-FPAU
IPA Hangar
Cessna 172
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Bright, snowy world
First, some chores
Ready for flight
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Ready for flight
172 Cockpit
Waiting for traffic
The flight went smoothly and was quite enjoyable. Jules ran me through a few basic exercises - turns without rudder, crabbing, turns with rudder, ascending, descending. We returned to Carp and landed after about half an hour in the air.
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Waiting for traffic
Takeoff Roll
Pristine Landscape
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172 Rear-view
Gatineau Hills
Observing the landmarks
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Instruction
Panel in flight
Banking over
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Ottawa Valley Farmstead
Landing
Our ride is done.
Tidy cockpit
Training Day Over
Before departing, I thanked Jules for his time and friendliness. Who knows... maybe someday I'll consider joining their pilot school.

Thanks also to Jenn for this great birthday gift. Much appreciated.
Interactive Trackmap - Carp flight - click map to expand
Note: you'll no doubt notice that the above trackmap is missing a chunk. Looks like somehow my GPS lost lock during a segment of the flight (about 10 minutes' worth).

Video, "pilot for a day". - Click on video above to start

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