Passed ASEL IA now
That was fascinating. Low level wind shear warnings, holding w/ 28 knot xwind component, bumpy and windy. CFII suggested I don't attempt to go out today, but the DE's take on the subject was "Tell him I said "shut up and fly""
Moonshine wrote:Passed ASEL IA now
That was fascinating. Low level wind shear warnings, holding w/ 28 knot xwind component, bumpy and windy. CFII suggested I don't attempt to go out today, but the DE's take on the subject was "Tell him I said "shut up and fly""
No worry regarding the holds - You did better than me - I had an IFR flight Sunday that terminated with being held at 6k in a hold to wait for traffic to clear then with clearance to decend while still in the hold spiraling down. All in the clouds. I was really proud that I was doing a fabulous job with my race track shape course going in multiple laps so I was surprised when I saw my flight aware was nothing close to what I thought! Yours looks way better than mine. Oh well - alls well that ends well I suppose. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N10933
Erik wrote:All in the clouds. I was really proud that I was doing a fabulous job with my race track shape course going in multiple laps so I was surprised when I saw my flight aware was nothing close to what I thought! Yours looks way better than mine. Oh well - alls well that ends well I suppose. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N10933
Allright, you win!
Thank you all for the congratulations it was a very memorable flight
Thank you, Antoine!
Yes, that's the instrument rating. Somewhat overdue.
Flew my first solo IFR trip today (in solid VMC) - short hop, but still - kded to kfxe
It was fun! Will post a couple of pictures when I come back
IIRC my checkride did not include holdings.
Based upon the nausea memories, unusual attitudes was checked though.
It was a very bumpy day in New Jersey and this examiner caught me physically exhausted and dehydrated after a 2 hour flight in including approach practices."weather is degrading, we'll do the verbal after the checkride".
I was lucky to have a crosswind landing frealk as an examiner.
He insisted on landing the plane himslef and I obliged - I was so sick think I would have pulled the chute in an SR!
Manual ILS, coupled VOR/DME, manual RNAV GPS partial panel (dimmed PFD to simulate ahrs failure, flying approach by following the line on MFD and displaying xtrk error of <0.2nm)
Unusual attitude recovery was integrated into flying that day, after all, for IFR all you need to demonstrate is the nose up/nose down recovery and I did that more than once
30 mins on the ground - warming up oil to 140F and watching my buddy takeoff in Cozy after he was tweaking the fuel supply. Then waiting for a gap in traffic
ASEL IA now
it was a very memorable flight
