July 7th.
The Tecnam Sierra has been sold so it's into the Evektor Sportstar.
But the weather wasn't too kind to us last week, so both days that I had booked in for training were cancelled. This Tuesday (July 7th) I finally got to sit my backside in the sportstar. It has a variable pitch prop and a winding throttle that I'm having trouble getting used to but I'm getting there.
We did the usual conversion things like stalls, steep turns, etc etc. Its stalls impressed me, they were almost a non event with very little height loss.
Kev wants me to do some more time in the Sportstar before he will sign me off on it, but I don't mind because I also feel I need a bit more time in it.
It's a bummer I had that break from training of nearly three months, cos I feel like I need to do quite a few more hours to catch up to where I was before the break.
Total hours so far 25.7 (2.4 solo)
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Day 18 Back into it again
Friday 26th June
As the title says, after nearly three months of not having the time to do anything else but work, I'm back into it again.
I was booked in for Tues the 23rd but the weather was lousy all day Monday, so I changed Tuesday's lesson to Friday.
Friday's weather wasn't the best either with scattered showers and the promise of it possibly getting worse.
The nav-ex flight plan was from Lynfield to Dalby, then onto Nanango and back to Lynfield.
We got to Dalby by dodging a few showers, and I was happy that I found Dalby without any trouble, considering visibility was not the best and I was also dodging showers. I was also happy with my take-off at Lynfield and my landing at Dalby considering I hadn't done either for just on three months.
On our run to Nanango the weather deteriorated so we did a diversion and headed back to Lynfield via Toowoomba. At Toowoomba I stuffed up the approach on final and had to go around again. My second attempt was without problem, but back home at Lynfield I did the same thing.
I can only assume I was a bit rusty.
Overall this nav-ex, because of the weather, was a good experience.
T/T 24.5 hrs (2.4 solo)
Update: Wednesday the 1st July. I sat for my BAK exam and passed. YAAAHHHOOOOO
As the title says, after nearly three months of not having the time to do anything else but work, I'm back into it again.
I was booked in for Tues the 23rd but the weather was lousy all day Monday, so I changed Tuesday's lesson to Friday.
Friday's weather wasn't the best either with scattered showers and the promise of it possibly getting worse.
The nav-ex flight plan was from Lynfield to Dalby, then onto Nanango and back to Lynfield.
We got to Dalby by dodging a few showers, and I was happy that I found Dalby without any trouble, considering visibility was not the best and I was also dodging showers. I was also happy with my take-off at Lynfield and my landing at Dalby considering I hadn't done either for just on three months.
On our run to Nanango the weather deteriorated so we did a diversion and headed back to Lynfield via Toowoomba. At Toowoomba I stuffed up the approach on final and had to go around again. My second attempt was without problem, but back home at Lynfield I did the same thing.
I can only assume I was a bit rusty.
Overall this nav-ex, because of the weather, was a good experience.
T/T 24.5 hrs (2.4 solo)
Update: Wednesday the 1st July. I sat for my BAK exam and passed. YAAAHHHOOOOO
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