cwyckham
Line Up and Wait
I just had the worst flight I've had in a while. I just got my type rating in a 172N (you need type ratings for everything in New Zealand) and took it up for some T&Gs. I'm practicing because I want to impress my boss tomorrow when I fly him down to our main office in the 172. It'll be his first flight with me.
I was all over the place! Eight landings and I liked one of them. The rest were horrible. Too flat, bounce, flare too high and drop it in, you name it. Even my patterns sucked. The thing has such a good climb rate with just me in it compared to the Grumman AA1C I've been flying that I keep overshooting pattern altitude. There was also tons of traffic in the pattern (at one point I was number 4 on final), and my total inabillity to stabilize on an altitude after climbing out increased the risk to everyone. Man, I pi** me off sometimes.
Wish me luck tomorrow, there's a good chance it'll be the last time the boss ever flys with me. At least I'm fairly confident we'll both live through it. My landings weren't dangerous, just ugly.
Chris
I was all over the place! Eight landings and I liked one of them. The rest were horrible. Too flat, bounce, flare too high and drop it in, you name it. Even my patterns sucked. The thing has such a good climb rate with just me in it compared to the Grumman AA1C I've been flying that I keep overshooting pattern altitude. There was also tons of traffic in the pattern (at one point I was number 4 on final), and my total inabillity to stabilize on an altitude after climbing out increased the risk to everyone. Man, I pi** me off sometimes.
Wish me luck tomorrow, there's a good chance it'll be the last time the boss ever flys with me. At least I'm fairly confident we'll both live through it. My landings weren't dangerous, just ugly.
Chris