Lovely sunny day to start the long weekend... an hours worth of solo to practice my forced landings... nailed them. So thought some stalling practice would be good, until I did my clearing turn and saw a 172 heading straight at me... have no idea what frequency he was on, but he either had not heard my position report or just did not care.
So I headed back to NZAR to do some circuits... as fifteen thousand other planes had the same thought! hahaha... 3 of us trying to join overhead together, but luckily it worked out well and everyone was able to slot in fine.
Unfortunately the winds were a little tricky today... it was effectively at right angles, only 8 or 9 knots so nothing horrible like last weekend, but it was swinging through around 50 or 60 degrees so the occasional tail wind on landing...
Then after a break, I went up with Trevor to demonstrate my forced landing, then a precautionary and back to NZAR. A nice steady crosswind meant it was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate my crosswind landing technique and I nailed it!
If I can find a free B-Cat instructor tomorrow and do a solid check flight, I should be able to book my actual flight test for next week! woohoo!
This flight: 1.2 Solo + 1.1 Dual
Total Hours: 86.7 (67.0 Dual, 19.7 Solo, 5.1 IFR)
This was an awesome currency check
1 year ago
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