woodstock
Final Approach
today was my XC to Lancaster and York. (just a landing at York). a very good flight. my navigation was good, landings are getting so much better (even with the beehive of Lancaster - more on that later) and all the multitasking and radios are better too. yesterday we started the XC but only to FDK (just to practice the heavy work, which tends to be leaving and entering airspace around airports).
definitely a satisfying flight. the only hairy parts were at Lancaster where our first attempt to land turned into a go -around b/c someone hadn't cleared the runway yet... and we were going to stay in the pattern and come back around when all of a sudden someone popped into view on final (far off) and ATC decided to give it to them instead and said "go to runway 26". so despite the setup we had to get behind the guy who took 31 and come in on 26. all happened pretty quickly and I was high and fast for 26 but managed to dump it all off in time and had a great landing. we only spent 15 minutes at the shop and no time to eat (you know, no matter how well you plan and think you are taking off at X time - it isn't enough. we took off an hour later than I had planned/hoped for).
whoops, hit send accidentally. anyway, overall went great and am 625 bucks poorer than I was on Friday.
definitely a satisfying flight. the only hairy parts were at Lancaster where our first attempt to land turned into a go -around b/c someone hadn't cleared the runway yet... and we were going to stay in the pattern and come back around when all of a sudden someone popped into view on final (far off) and ATC decided to give it to them instead and said "go to runway 26". so despite the setup we had to get behind the guy who took 31 and come in on 26. all happened pretty quickly and I was high and fast for 26 but managed to dump it all off in time and had a great landing. we only spent 15 minutes at the shop and no time to eat (you know, no matter how well you plan and think you are taking off at X time - it isn't enough. we took off an hour later than I had planned/hoped for).
whoops, hit send accidentally. anyway, overall went great and am 625 bucks poorer than I was on Friday.
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