Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Back to C school/ Stage Check 1.5

So monday marked the beginning of the end of C school. I have been going to the gym like everyday, then we had class for like 2 hours. it was rediculous. I texted Matt to see if we could schedule some flying times this week. He agreed for tuesday to fly with him, and then finish off my stage check for just the part i failed. Which i was still a little nervous and queezy about. So Tuesday comes, i wake up early, get to the airport, have some good conversation with everyone there. Felt like there was a good vibe in the air, and that everything was gonna go smoothly. Matt and i had a great flight. went over what we had to go over real quick, i had two landings, and it truly was like landing on a cloud. maybe cuz im always on a cloud, i should know how it feels. Anyways, next up was to do the same exact thing but with a different flight instructor. I was still nervous, feels like i forget everything when im with someone else. ughhh. so we get in to the plane, everything was going fine. i just hate everything up until take off, i dno what it is, but once i take off, i feel a lot better. Anyway, he said i was going a little fast on the ramp. i may have, whatever, no big deal. we took off and headed out to chandler, a different airport. It was super hazy and i thought i was going the right way, but i wasnt too sure. So he asked me where we were going, and why were we climbing above 2000 ft. our altitude restriction hadnt been cancelled yet, but i contacted tower and asked for some directions, they graciously helped. finally i could see the other airport, and checked the weather over it, then started communicating with everyone else in that area, telling them my intentions. got down to pattern altitude, did everything right, landed once again beautifully, took off again, then started spiralling upwards, cuz thats what i went over with matt, but he asked me what i was doing, in which i told him, he thought it was strange, but it was perfectly normal. I got the weather for fresno airport, then reported back in on their frequency. Made radio contact and entered the airspace. woopdidoo, thats alls i had to do to pass right there. so i did it. we flew back to fresno, entered everything perfectly. my landing was outstanding once again- its the most fun part by far. Taxi'd my plane back and couldnt wait to get out. Once i put the plane back, i went up and spoke with him, he told me some stuff that i could work on, and different perspectives on how to do things. but its human nature for different flight instructors to teach things differently. So i took his stuff into consideration, but matts way of doing things will probably be my go to since im with him the whole time. It felt good to pass. Meow it was on to phase II of my private pilots license. This is the solo/ cross country portion of my training. It also consists of short field landings and take offs, which i heard was pretty hard. im up for a challenge though. We scheduled my first solo for thursday at 9am. we are gonna go to another airport, land 3 times, then he is going to get out and let me land and take off 3 times. Scary, but i cant wait. its gonna be awesome. Also, theres like 10 ground lessons and 10 flights in this stage II, he wants to try and front load these lessons, so we can finish them by january 31, because that is when my squadron is going to Nevada for some training until Feb 21st. So im planning some stuff out, ill do my homework, and see where this takes us. But im excited to learn some more stuff and engrave everything else that i already have learned.

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