I'm starting to get the hang of the rudder on the ground as this morning's take off was again straight down the centre line.
On the trip over to Bradfield I found myself looking for and evaluating forced landing paddocks as I was expecting any moment for the throttle to be closed. It didn't happen but the threat has got me looking, so I guess that is what it is supposed to do, keep me on the ball
When we got to Bradfield we did two circuits and Kev got out and told me to go for a local fly around and enjoy myself for a while then come back and do a couple of circuits and pick him up. Now I'm not a guy to not do what I'm told so I went for a fly. And spent the whole time looking for forced landing paddocks as they came and went and working out how I would descend and set-up for the landing. It was peaceful up there on my own buzzing around and even though I was training myself to keep a constant look out for other aircraft and emergency landing paddocks, as well as keeping an eye on the instruments, I did enjoy myself
Back at Bradfield the first landing was good but the second was a bit of a bouncer so I powered on and went around again. The bounce probably wasn't bad enough to abort as the second bounce was hardly a bounce but as I have not had to abort a landing because of a bounce situation I did it for the experience, besides I was told to do a couple of circuits and pick the boss up and this gave me the excuse to do another circuit ;) .
I stuffed up my short field powered approach back at Lynfield by being too high when I turned onto final, so I need more practice at these.
T/T 12.6. T/solo time 1.4
PS Both Robyn and I did our Human Factors training course on Saturday and we both passed
Sitting for my Human Factors test
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