Bill
Touchdown! Greaser!
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I haven't had a lesson in a while, but have been on a few training flights with another IR student, we take turns under hood and safety pilot. He seems to be a pretty good pilot, so I now feel pretty good riding with him.
We've been practicing VOR tracking, entering holds from various positions, and shooting practice VOR and ILS approaches. So far, my approaches are inconsistant, some days I look like a hero, some days a goat. I'm now starting to sometimes form a 3d mental picture of where I am in relation to the airport and nav aids on some of the approaches. We seem to be doing well learning from each other's mistakes. Also, it is really interesting how quickly you can catch errors from the right seat compared to the left. My instructor is going to add NDB approaches to this mix soon, further turning my brain to mush. Speaking of mush, why is it amost universal that your landings get much worse when working under the hood? Ugh.
We haven't gotten to fly in the last 10 days or so, all this southerly flow off the gulf has kept the weather sufficiently crappy. On the flip side, I've been spending lots of quality time with John and Martha, and am 80% complete thru the King CD-ROMS. I expect to be ready for the written in another few weeks or so.
We've been practicing VOR tracking, entering holds from various positions, and shooting practice VOR and ILS approaches. So far, my approaches are inconsistant, some days I look like a hero, some days a goat. I'm now starting to sometimes form a 3d mental picture of where I am in relation to the airport and nav aids on some of the approaches. We seem to be doing well learning from each other's mistakes. Also, it is really interesting how quickly you can catch errors from the right seat compared to the left. My instructor is going to add NDB approaches to this mix soon, further turning my brain to mush. Speaking of mush, why is it amost universal that your landings get much worse when working under the hood? Ugh.
We haven't gotten to fly in the last 10 days or so, all this southerly flow off the gulf has kept the weather sufficiently crappy. On the flip side, I've been spending lots of quality time with John and Martha, and am 80% complete thru the King CD-ROMS. I expect to be ready for the written in another few weeks or so.
