Simviation Forum - Flight Journal: flights 108, 109, 110

Jan 5^th, 2009 at 8:52pm

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- After my epic cross-country,I fell out of the habit of keeping my journal. I was inspired enough to keep flying, but there was no immediate goal on the horizon, and I seemed to be working more yet having less expendable money lying around, so my flying was, for a while, limited to short occasional hops just to keep my hand in.

I don't remember much about these three flights, but the logbook entries speak volumes.

It's interesting how much learning there is to do, even after getting the PPASEL and venturing far from home on long trips...

Flight 108
10-01-00

C172

2N8-local

2.0 solo; 10 landings

"pattern & landing practice; mostly on 09; var. winds; worst landings in a long time!!" Undecided

Flight 109
11-12-00

C172

2N8-local

0.5 solo; 3 landings

"much better, but not perfect" Sad

Flight 110

11-17-00

C172M

2N8-local

0.4 solo; 1 landing

"Blustery west wind- 3 approaches, 1 landing... parked it."

Next: a chilly flying date

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Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2009 at 8:26am

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It's funny how safe the ground feels.. when it takes three tries to get there...

Cool

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Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2009 at 11:29am

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Brett_Henderson wrote on Jan 6^th, 2009 at 8:26am:

It's funny how safe the ground feels.. when it takes three tries to get there...

Cool

... and how suddenly you can lose interest in flying! Grin

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Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2009 at 11:44am

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I remember like it was yesterday.. after a similar struggle landing in winds.. A day or two later, I climbed into the cockpit (same kinda winds) and just SAT there, for about an hour; trying to decide if I was gonna do this piloting stuff, or not (I was at about 150 hours).

It was really no big deal; 10 gusting to 15... but man, as you sit there and feel the stationary (tied down) airplane give way to those winds... you start letting your mind run wild.. "if it's getting banked and yawed like this, with wheels firmly planted.. what chance in hell do I have of controlling it in the air ?" Who am I kidding ?

Roll Eyes

Ahh .. memories. Since then, I've regularly landed in gusty winds (sighting out the passenger window to keep line up with the runway) Shocked

And now, I prefer a good wind. It gets you involved in the approach early.. No wind at all is like hitting a knuckle ball.. Cool

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Reply #4 - Jan 6^th, 2009 at 11:53am

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Brett_Henderson wrote on Jan 6^th, 2009 at 11:44am:

I remember like it was yesterday.. after a similar struggle landing in winds.. A day or two later, I climbed into the cockpit (same kinda winds) and just SAT there, for about an hour; trying to decide if I was gonna do this piloting stuff, or not (I was at about 150 hours).

It was really no big deal; 10 gusting to 15... but man, as you sit there and feel the stationary (tied down) airplane give way to those winds... you start letting your mind run wild.. "if it's getting banked and yawed like this, with wheels firmly planted.. what chance in hell do I have of controlling it in the air ?" Who am I kidding ?

Roll Eyes

Ahh .. memories. Since then, I've regularly landed in gusty winds (sighting out the passenger window to keep line up with the runway) Shocked

And now, I prefer a good wind. It gets you involved in the approach early.. No wind at all is like hitting a knuckle ball.. Cool

My problem was always that I wasn't "chicken" enough on the ground... it's during the first approach of the day that I might get discouraged (the worst time!) Grin

But point taken: I have handled worse since those early days, and will porbaly do so again.

But I've also gone around under better conditions. Proficiency is not simply a matter of filling in tasks and times... it's a non-linear process.

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