br6ppc
Filing Flight Plan
Well, after 6 flights, I finally had a bad, bad flight. My day was already lousy. I showed up after work at the base aero club with more fuel on me than the Warrior could hold ( I work on C-130's at Robins AFB ). I live over an hour away, so going home to change was out of the question. I asked my CFII if he wanted to go or cancel. He said we would go. I told him don't complain about the fuel odor, then . We had a new lady in the tower and I had to laugh and feel sorry for the poor lady. She was having trouble getting the departure instructions out. Then they brought in a C-5 Galaxy that had to turn on the taxiway that I was holding on. Needless to say, I was definitely giving way to the C-5. I did make a nice instrument takeoff. After takeoff, the Atlanta dep. controller was also having a bad day. It took her 3 attempts to just acknowledge that she had me in radar contact. The sky was clear and full of bumps. We bumped our way over to the practice area and enroute I found that the turn coordinator was a lying sack of #%*. I had to cover it to keep from getting the leans. In level flight, it was showing a right bank. I would look at the AI and then scan to the TC and when they didn't agree, I would try to believe the TC. But the DG didn't show a turn, so I knew the TC was wrong. We proceeded on and I finally got to do some steep turns. I NEED PRACTICE!!!! Man I thought they were hard during my PP training. They're a just loads of fun under the hood (yeah right). After my 6th attempt, I finally made one to PTS standards. I still need mucho practice for those. I just did have my head screwed on straight today. Too many things not working out and mainly I was fixating instead of scanning. I was also behind the A/C constantly. I was very happy that this wasn't a for real IMC flight Hey, let's get it out of my system cause I knew I was due for one of these days. We then tried to calibrate the TC. Right std turn for 90 deg. took 50 sec. It was waaay off. The AI was showing about 8deg. of bank at 95 kts. in the turn. After that little fiasco, we called it a day and headed back to base. Upon arrival, we had to wait for 2 E-8 JSTARS to get out of the way before we could land. I did end the flight well, though. I made a nice no-flap squeeker landing, so I guess all's well that ends well. My PPL instructor always told me that bad days were usually followed by a good flight. We shall see. Ben there's your report .
Stan
Stan