Sunday, July 09, 2006

Flight School: Day 10

Still no solo, although my landings are getting much better. I had two flights today, one at 11 and one at 3. The first flight felt better because we stayed out of the Kissimmee traffic pattern and went to Winter Haven's uncontrolled airport, so if I screwed up ATC wouldn't get mad or give the FAA a reason to arrest me. I had a couple good landings there, then we came back. The second flight we stayed at Kissimmee and just did the pattern in pretty high crosswinds.

My crosswind correction is getting better, but I still just barely screw up the flares. There's so much finesse it's crazy. Tomorrow I'm scheduled for 7 am so the air should be smooth and undisturbed and the thermals shouldn't exist, so as long as I don't royally screw up or the weather is really bad, I'm definitely soloing tomorrow.

Now I need to find somewhere I haven't already eaten dinner at near this place. I've done pretty well so far but the pickings are slimming.

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