DutchessFlier
Line Up and Wait
Have been away for a few days...finally flew again Wednesday night and this afternoon. Doing the IR work at night was alot of fun and good training. We shot an NDB 'A' approach at an uncontrolled field, did a go around and hold using the ADF in the plane...interesting, but still confusing to me at this point. Trying to understand why the procedure is so convoluted..seems to be more complicated than it has to be. Then we shot a GPS approach back to my home field...what a difference!! The GPS allowed an ILS procedure after the last waypoint and my instructor let me fly the glideslope to 400 ft agl and then had me land the plane visually...that was great too.
Today it was all under the foggles from 600ft after T-O. Back to the maneuvers which are coming along. About 10 minutes into the flight, he partial paneled me again, no AI-HI and kept it that way for the rest of the lesson until we were on short final. The steeps, slow flight and stalls were very interesting with partial panel..I found myself fixating more on the turn coordinator than anything else....but I finally stopped chasing the VSI as much as I was before....I mentioned to him that we were partial paneled almost the entire lesson..he smiled! Said that if I can develop my instrument skills with the partial panel, then full panel would be much much easier, and besides, pilots who never fly partial always get major surprises when the panel does go partial unexpectedly and their training does not prepare them for that eventuality. More to come as we move along!
Today it was all under the foggles from 600ft after T-O. Back to the maneuvers which are coming along. About 10 minutes into the flight, he partial paneled me again, no AI-HI and kept it that way for the rest of the lesson until we were on short final. The steeps, slow flight and stalls were very interesting with partial panel..I found myself fixating more on the turn coordinator than anything else....but I finally stopped chasing the VSI as much as I was before....I mentioned to him that we were partial paneled almost the entire lesson..he smiled! Said that if I can develop my instrument skills with the partial panel, then full panel would be much much easier, and besides, pilots who never fly partial always get major surprises when the panel does go partial unexpectedly and their training does not prepare them for that eventuality. More to come as we move along!