I decided to take advantage of the lovely weather and the fact that I had finished all my chores (read as: taking jade to the Shopping Mall) by lunchtime by going for a quick flight.
As I was seriously lacking in flight time in recent months and what I had done was simply flying in straight lines, I decided some 'basic' revision was the order of the day.
I strapped on JBL and headed out to the training area. Once again, I found the area out towards the coast by Kaiaua and Miranda to be aircraft free. For some reason, everyone else seems to prefer training over the Pokeno paddocks.
Anyway, I warmed up with some medium turns, a basic stall or 2, a couple of approach stalls and then pulled the power to see if I could still do a forced landing. It was not too bad, so I headed back to Ardmore for some circuit practice.
What a huge mistake... every man and his brother seemed to be flying circuits! At one point, I was mid-downwind, with 4 aircraft in front of me, and 2 on final... making me number 7... and there were 2 more behind me!!!
Made for interesting times, with some aircraft going for the grass... some for the seal... and others not really sure what they were doing!
Was a good exercise in spacing... and I managed some decent landings including a couple of nice flapless. To finish, I went for a shortfield landing on the grass and landed right on the threshold. It was pretty much perfect.
All in all, a good afternoon and it felt good to get back in the air.
This flight: 1.1 PinC
Total Hours: 136.4 (78.9/46.2 Day, 4.9/6.4 Night, 5.1 IFR)
This was an awesome currency check
1 year ago
2 comments:
CPL can't be too far away then?!
About 70 hours, (hopefully only) 3 more theory exams and a flight test :P
I am still just over 50 short of the 100hr PinC!
Oh and I haven't started on the XCountry stuff yet either...
ps. kinda ironic that you get your IR renewal... and then the sun comes out to play!
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