TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
I got night current tonight!
AND I DID IT SOLO!! (I'm excited about that only because I usually don't feel comfortable to regain night currency on my own, and grab an instructor... but I just flew with an instructor a couple of weeks back for my BFR, and we discussed me getting night current solo, and tonight I did it...)
It's been a while since my last PIC night flight... I had a short night flight (started in the day, ended at night, 0.2 night) in the SportStar in April when I took Lisa Simonds from this board for a ride in the LSA... nada night flight time since then.
I'm trying to fill in the 'blank spots' in my logbook on the aeronautical experience requirements (CFR 61.129a) for the CPL-ASEL. I had all of them satisfied except two, both of them in paragraph 4: a solo VFR X/C at least 300 nm in length with landings at 3 points, one of which is > 250nm from the original point of departure; AND the 10 takeoffs and landings at night, solo, in the traffic pattern of an airport with a control tower.
Well, the 2nd requirement there is now complete! I left 52F (NW Regional) at 6:42pm (sunset was at 5:30), flew over to Alliance/Fort Worth (KAFW) and spent a little over an hour in the pattern, getting 3 full stops and 7 t&g's. Then back to 52F, for a total of 4 full stops, 7 t&gs... that reset my night currency AND satisfied the CFR 61.129a(4)ii requirement...
Yahoo! Now, to plan the VFR X/C flight... I've flown solo trips longer than that distance (350nm) but didn't make two stops on the way back (STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!) so I get to do it all over again (AH, DARN! I have to FLY AGAIN! WHEE!).
AND I DID IT SOLO!! (I'm excited about that only because I usually don't feel comfortable to regain night currency on my own, and grab an instructor... but I just flew with an instructor a couple of weeks back for my BFR, and we discussed me getting night current solo, and tonight I did it...)
It's been a while since my last PIC night flight... I had a short night flight (started in the day, ended at night, 0.2 night) in the SportStar in April when I took Lisa Simonds from this board for a ride in the LSA... nada night flight time since then.
I'm trying to fill in the 'blank spots' in my logbook on the aeronautical experience requirements (CFR 61.129a) for the CPL-ASEL. I had all of them satisfied except two, both of them in paragraph 4: a solo VFR X/C at least 300 nm in length with landings at 3 points, one of which is > 250nm from the original point of departure; AND the 10 takeoffs and landings at night, solo, in the traffic pattern of an airport with a control tower.
Well, the 2nd requirement there is now complete! I left 52F (NW Regional) at 6:42pm (sunset was at 5:30), flew over to Alliance/Fort Worth (KAFW) and spent a little over an hour in the pattern, getting 3 full stops and 7 t&g's. Then back to 52F, for a total of 4 full stops, 7 t&gs... that reset my night currency AND satisfied the CFR 61.129a(4)ii requirement...
Yahoo! Now, to plan the VFR X/C flight... I've flown solo trips longer than that distance (350nm) but didn't make two stops on the way back (STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!) so I get to do it all over again (AH, DARN! I have to FLY AGAIN! WHEE!).
