Subject: Post: The FAA office was conveniently located in a shopping mall, so the morning was spent wandering around, shopping some required things and making postcards in a one-hour photo shop. It was almost impossible to get decent postcards from Vieques, so we ended up making our own..Afternoon I went to the FAA office to meet with the inspector. There was basically no interview or anything, he just asked me to fill the license request form and issued me a temporary American pilot license. However, I would need a one hour flight review with a US certified flight instructor before the license would be valid.So, the next stop was once again Isla Grande Flight School, and the guys were just as helpful as always. "You wanna fly it now?" "Yea, sure" and in half an hour we were up in the sky. It was fun (and sweaty) to once again fly a school flight doing stalls, steep turns and a couple of different kind of landings. Radio phraseology is slightly different in here, but that wasn't too much a problem either. The instructor was happy with my flying, so now I have fully valid FAA pilot license. :)Cooking some tortillas for dinner now, and tomorrow morning we will go island hopping with the same aircraft. Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
The FAA office was conveniently located in a shopping mall, so the morning was spent wandering around, shopping some required things and making postcards in a one-hour photo shop. It was almost impossible to get decent postcards from Vieques, so we ended up making our own..
Afternoon I went to the FAA office to meet with the inspector. There was basically no interview or anything, he just asked me to fill the license request form and issued me a temporary American pilot license. However, I would need a one hour flight review with a US certified flight instructor before the license would be valid.
So, the next stop was once again Isla Grande Flight School, and the guys were just as helpful as always. "You wanna fly it now?" "Yea, sure" and in half an hour we were up in the sky. It was fun (and sweaty) to once again fly a school flight doing stalls, steep turns and a couple of different kind of landings. Radio phraseology is slightly different in here, but that wasn't too much a problem either. The instructor was happy with my flying, so now I have fully valid FAA pilot license. :)
Cooking some tortillas for dinner now, and tomorrow morning we will go island hopping with the same aircraft.
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