Flight School: Day 5
Someone put in transponder code 7500 today while we were flying over Kissimmee Airport. Someone has a lot of paperwork to fill out with the FAA. Someone wasn't me.
That was really the highlight of the day because I never thought I'd get to see the hijack transponder code so soon, even if it was a fake (someone asked ATC if they should do a flyby of the airplane, but ATC said "naw, it's probably a mistake." I haven't watched the news yet so I don't know). During that flight I made ten landings, all of which weren't good enough for me to have to try again. The landing flair is the hardest part of flying, and I do expect to nail it soon, but dang... ten traffic pattern flights in not even an hour.
My parents came down here to switch cars since I had my mom's. They opted to join us on the Cessna and we obtained clearance to fly over Disney and see the attractions from above. Not a very interesting flight, except when my parents videotaped me and the instructor dancing to music you can't hear on the tape instead of flying the plane. Since I don't have my camera connector cable I can't post pictures yet. However, my mom said that landing was better than some of the airlines she's been on. I'd have to say that's true, but it wasn't great.
The third flight tested me if an instrument failed during flight. I love our high-tech methods of simulated instrument failure, and when I say "high-tech methods of simulated instrument failure," I mean "post-it notes over the meters." We took out the attitude indicator, the coordination meter, and finally (and worst of all) the altimeter. I learned how to judge heights from the sky a little better though, so I'm glad I did that exercise. We made some landings at the Winter Haven airfield, dodged a box turtle and an armadillo on the runway, and practiced emergency landings, all of which were pretty interesting. I made a decent landing back at Kissimmee, so that made me happy.
Flights are at 9 and 5 tomorrow with a 1 o'clock ground school lesson.
That was really the highlight of the day because I never thought I'd get to see the hijack transponder code so soon, even if it was a fake (someone asked ATC if they should do a flyby of the airplane, but ATC said "naw, it's probably a mistake." I haven't watched the news yet so I don't know). During that flight I made ten landings, all of which weren't good enough for me to have to try again. The landing flair is the hardest part of flying, and I do expect to nail it soon, but dang... ten traffic pattern flights in not even an hour.
My parents came down here to switch cars since I had my mom's. They opted to join us on the Cessna and we obtained clearance to fly over Disney and see the attractions from above. Not a very interesting flight, except when my parents videotaped me and the instructor dancing to music you can't hear on the tape instead of flying the plane. Since I don't have my camera connector cable I can't post pictures yet. However, my mom said that landing was better than some of the airlines she's been on. I'd have to say that's true, but it wasn't great.
The third flight tested me if an instrument failed during flight. I love our high-tech methods of simulated instrument failure, and when I say "high-tech methods of simulated instrument failure," I mean "post-it notes over the meters." We took out the attitude indicator, the coordination meter, and finally (and worst of all) the altimeter. I learned how to judge heights from the sky a little better though, so I'm glad I did that exercise. We made some landings at the Winter Haven airfield, dodged a box turtle and an armadillo on the runway, and practiced emergency landings, all of which were pretty interesting. I made a decent landing back at Kissimmee, so that made me happy.
Flights are at 9 and 5 tomorrow with a 1 o'clock ground school lesson.
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