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Lesson 86 – Turf and Asphalt
We had planned a dual session to work on crosswinds so, naturally, the winds were very light all day yesterday. As a plan B, we decided to go to Burlington for some soft and short field practice. I haven’t done maximum performance landings for months. Since BUU has both turf and hard surfaced runways, it […]
Continue readingLesson 85 – Another Checkride Prep Solo
This flight was a short solo to go through all the maneuvers. I started out with the high work – slow flight, steep turns and stalls. Those all went fine. I pulled the power to idle for a simulated engine out. Once down to 1700 feet, I stopped the descent and used my chosen emergency […]
Continue readingLesson 84 – Review Again
I had another dual session with Sandy yesterday. We did ground reference maneuvers, hood work, unusual attitude, VOR tracking, a go around and a power off accuracy landing. All of those went fine. We also did three cross wind landing that were just so-so. The wind was blowing at 14 knots with gusts to 22 […]
Continue readingLesson 83 – It’s My Call
I had to cancel Tuesday’s flight because of work. The weather wasn’t very good so, I probably couldn’t have flown solo anyway. I rescheduled for Wednesday but, since Sandy was already booked for the whole day, it was going to be solo or nothing. The day started out with low ceilings, rain and scattered thunderstorms. […]
Continue readingLesson 82 – Using My Feet
With the winds at 14 knots gusting to 20, yesterday was a good day to practice rudder use with some ground reference maneuvers and crosswind landings. By the end of the lesson, I was getting a feel for how using the rudder properly improved just about every phase of flight. We started with a couple […]
Continue readingLesson 81 – Practice Checkride
I had a practice checkride with CFI Travis on Thursday of last week. I’m slow getting this posted because Georgia and I drove up to northern Wisconsin Friday morning for a family get together. The oral portion of the practice test went fine. The only items that I need to work on are to get […]
Continue readingLesson 80 – A Sunday Solo
The weather was just about perfect yesterday. I went out by myself to work on ground reference maneuvers and VOR tracking. Overall, it went pretty well. After some rectangular patterns and turns around a point to the left, I switched it up and did a few to the right. They weren’t quite as good but […]
Continue readingLesson 79 – More Review
Tuesday was just too hot for me so, rather than flying, we finished the oral exam review. Yesterday was much cooler so, we did go flying. After a quick review of slow flight, steep turns, power off and power on stall, we went down low for some turns around a point. We missed those on […]
Continue readingLesson 78 – More Crosswinds and Stuff
I think Westosha is the toughest airport that I have used for training so far. I have never done very well there. The runway is narrow and the steep drop off right at the departure end of runway 3 can produce some weird air currents. I know that Sandy likes to take her students to […]
Continue readingLesson 77 – Ground Reference and Gusty Crosswinds
Winds were 12 knots gusting to 19 yesterday, making it a good day to work on ground reference maneuvers. Sandy pulled the power during our initial climb out from runway 32. I picked out a field just to the left of the nose and made a gentle turn toward it. That was the decision that […]
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