Mayday, Mayday, Mayday...

Not really... just more FLWOP practise... only this time, flying the complete procedure... down to around 100 feet!!! :)

Weather was a little rough, had a real rollercoaster ride heading over the small range of hills to the training area... a couple of light showers (if you can see through it, you can fly through it)... an engine that was 'occasionally' running a little rough (maybe carb icing?)... and about a 20kt westerly wind made for a challenging lesson today.

Good fun though...

The highlight being the circuit fun and games on return to the airfield. Made an almost perfect overhead join (only thing wrong was I made a minor error on one of the radio calls)... was cruising downwind, made my call... then heard '[callsign], Overhead Karaka, joining downwind'... meanwhile, some nonce in a grumman decided to make a straight-in approach for the runway... so I was left with no option but to extend downwind to be number 3 behind the guy trundling in on long finals.

My instructor then heard the downwind call over the craft that had joined downwind and realised that it was a twin-engined plane on a commercial charter and we were going to get squeezed... so we made a direct approach to the runway threshold, effectively making base and final legs into one... as I made my finals call we hear "Where did ETZ come from?"...

My instructor jumps in with "We joined overhead"... after landing, shutting down and securing the aircraft we were back inside the clubrooms and the phone rang... apparently the pilot in the twin was non too impressed with us... whatever, we're not the ones making straight in approaches!

so the CFI from the club went for a word with the other operator... nothing too dramatic, just a quick chat to clarify some things... apparently the twin didnt hear our calls, so figured he could steam downwind as fast as he liked ;)

'Advanced' stalling next lesson... the dreaded 'wing-drop' stall ;)

This flight: 1.2 Hours Dual
Total Hours: 44.7 (40.9 Dual, 3.8 Solo)