Flight School: Day 19

Last day of training, now I just have to prepare for the End of Course review/flight tomorrow and the FAA Examiner's Flight on Monday. I gotta study pretty hard (although not as hard as some of my school classes, but there's a lot of stuff to remember here), but I think I'm ready.

I needed 1.7 more hours of solo time for the Private standards, so I cleaned that up by hanging in the pattern the whole time. I did 11 full stop taxi backs, which is really annoying compared to touch and gos, but since I'm a student pilot I'm not allowed to do them. Taxi backs don't necessarily take forever, but they do eat a chunk of time. Oh well, I was killing it, and my flight lasted exactly 1.7 hours.

For the FAA test, there's a 45min - 1hr oral exam that will be the death of me if anything at all. We did a practice oral and I about went nuts trying to remember these acronyms for minimum equipment for VFR flight and the most specific details of markings on the sectional charts. ATOMATOEFLAME, FLAPS, NWKRAFT, WARMPC, and 30FUCTD are acronyms that are irritating me.

After that we did a practice FAA flight, and I destroyed it. I'm ready to fly and perform the maneuvers (steep turns, clean/dirty slow flight, power on/off stalls, S-turns, turns around a point, rectangular patterns, and blind flight), but the landing might be the death of me. I seem to be getting worse (and by "worse" I mean "not beautiful but not scary enough for any passengers to flip out or get hurt or sue me")

Peace, and humptiness forever.