28th August.
At briefing today Kev said he wanted me to do some more circuits and straight in approaches.
My circuits just need some tidying up a bit, but my straight in approaches I've been having trouble with. Three out of four times I'm too high and have to go around.
Thinking about this now, I can remember in the sierra not having as much trouble as I'm having with the Sportstar in being too high. Could it be the Sportstar is more of a glider and it is just a case of my visual perception will adjust to suit the Sportstar.
Anyway, the circuits, landings and straight in approaches were all better today, so I'm making headway and need to keep the ball rolling.
Looking forward to the next lesson.
TT 30.5 (solo 2.4)
Friday, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Day 21 Getting nowhere
August 21st.
Between the Sportstar being out of commission for a couple of weeks and then work getting in the road again, I haven't done a lot of flying in the last couple of months.
I feel like I'm getting nowhere at the moment. But at least I'm getting some time in, so I'm not slipping further back than I have already slipped back.
We did some more circuits coupled with a short nav again, and had a bit of excitement when we landed back at Lynfield and found we didn't have any right brake. As Lynfield is a very short strip we powered on and went around again and made another powered approach but this time brought it in just a smidge slower and dropped it over the fence and kept the nose well in the air as long as possible, to give it as much drag as possible to slow it down. We didn't need the run-off area, but we used all of the strip.
T/T 28.9 (solo 2.4)
Between the Sportstar being out of commission for a couple of weeks and then work getting in the road again, I haven't done a lot of flying in the last couple of months.
I feel like I'm getting nowhere at the moment. But at least I'm getting some time in, so I'm not slipping further back than I have already slipped back.
We did some more circuits coupled with a short nav again, and had a bit of excitement when we landed back at Lynfield and found we didn't have any right brake. As Lynfield is a very short strip we powered on and went around again and made another powered approach but this time brought it in just a smidge slower and dropped it over the fence and kept the nose well in the air as long as possible, to give it as much drag as possible to slow it down. We didn't need the run-off area, but we used all of the strip.
T/T 28.9 (solo 2.4)
Day 20 Seat time
July 28th.
We did a short navex. From Lynfield to watts bridge, then onto Toowoomba and back to Lynfield. The idea of this was to mix some circuits with some navigation. In other words just give me some more seat time in the Sportstar. After which I was looking forward to some more regular time in the seat.
T/T 27.2 (solo 2.4)
We did a short navex. From Lynfield to watts bridge, then onto Toowoomba and back to Lynfield. The idea of this was to mix some circuits with some navigation. In other words just give me some more seat time in the Sportstar. After which I was looking forward to some more regular time in the seat.
T/T 27.2 (solo 2.4)
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