Flight #3 Longest flight ever!
18 years ago
General
Ok, Flight #3 in and i logged 1.7 hours! this is the most i have ever done and my mind is mush. We did some slow speed flight, a few power off (idle) stalls, power on stalls. That was all review from 9 year ago really so I did not feel out of control on it but it still really worked my mind keeping everything in control. We also worked on some instrument flying. This was the first time that i put on goggles so that was real odd. I did feel real comfortable with them on and really watched the instruments. I did as well as I expected from myself so that was good. I also flew to a new airport Waupaca Municipal Airport (KPCZ). We set up to do a landing but I was too fast so we just did a go around. The next landing was well... poor... Kate took over and cleaned up the landing and we talked about what happened. I took off with out issue and we went around again this landing was better but not as good as I wanted. we then went back Brennand (K79C) and by then my mind was mush so my radio skills where only ok. The landing was better so that was 3 for the day. All where done a bit fast and a bit high on approach. Will have to work on that as my comfort level increases. Over all again she said i did good other then that one landing.
Kate had a ruff day at home so I feel bad for her having to deal with my less then stellar landings. Oh there has been some questions about costs. The airplane (Cessna 172) runs me $106/hour+tax and Kate's time is $40/hour.
Kate had a ruff day at home so I feel bad for her having to deal with my less then stellar landings. Oh there has been some questions about costs. The airplane (Cessna 172) runs me $106/hour+tax and Kate's time is $40/hour.
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That's great to hear you're flying!
Instrument flying is really important to private pilots in my opinion. There are times in VFR conditions where it'll be necessary to take a look down at my instruments to get myself re-orientated. Spatial disorientation can be pretty serious, and you need to know when to trust your instruments.
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