Connie and N1418V
Connie is standing in front of 1418 Victor just before a flight we took with an instructor at Beverly Flight Center. This was in the Spring of 2004.
Connie in Piper Warrior
This was taken in November 2004 at a girl scout field trip to the airport.
BVY - PWM
This is a map I made from a rectified image of a current New York sectional chart. I rectified it using GRASS and latitude and longitude data for airports listed in the Airport/Facility Directory. Overlaid on the map is a set of data points I collected with a GPS recording my first cross country solo flight. The entire flight was Beverly - Portland - Beverly, but, for some reason I have not yet figured out, the GPS stopped recording data as I entered the inner ring of Portland's Class C airspace.
Pitot/Static Problems
This is a map I made from a rectified image of the FAA airport diagram of Beverly Airport. On February 19, 2006 I had a problem (probably ice) in the pitot/static system right after takeoff. The result was a loss of three instruments: altimeter, airspeed indicator and vertical speed indicator. The controller at Beverly Tower graciously gave me clearance to turn and land immediately on Runway 34 and taxi back to taxiway Charlie. You can see the gps track of my plane taxiing to the runup area for Runway 27, the takeoff roll on 27 and my drift to the South of the Runway after takeoff as I try to figure out what is wrong with the instruments. You can also see the curving approach to 34, the landing there and the taxi back to the ramp.
Touch and Go's
I flew these touch and go's on February 22, 2006. The diagonal line leading into the traffic pattern is my path from the Flight Center down taxiway alpha. The data points bunch up briefly while I hold short of Runway 34 for departing traffic. Just before entering the pattern, the points bunch up again on the pad as I go through the pre-takeoff checklist. Most of the rest of the data represents the traffic pattern itself. Notice how the runway holds the points together in a line. After takeoff, these six trips around the pattern show much more variability, although the downwind leg is fairly consistent. The turns to base and final are more consistent than the crosswind turns immediately after takeoff on the lower left. Notice that my turns are very rounded and continuous. The pattern should be more rectangular, with four clearly distinguishable turns. Finally you can see my climbing departure from the pattern to the Northeast to practice maneuvers over Plum Island.
Practice
On the lower left you can see some touch and go's. On the upper left some turns across a road. Over Ipswich I did some turns around the watertower.