Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Giving Rides
C-150, N60614
PTS > LLU > PTS

Hobbs: 2.9
Landings: 5

Remarks, Procedures, Manuevers:
TO / Landings, Turns about point, Pilotage
4 passengers (one at a time of course ;-)

Comments:
One of my nephews (Zach) visited and I gave rides to him, and my children. We had a good time.

I retrieved the plane by myself, as I have found in the past that this is often the best way for me to start out when I fly with the smaller kids. It gives me time to settle into the cockpit routine before the younger passengers join me. It worked out well as I could only take one at a time in the point anyway.

I found that I was privileged to share the runway with a couple crop dusters. New experience working with planes that never topped 500 AGL and didn't have radios.

My second daughter rode back to PTS with me, which was a joy to me as she is my reluctant passenger.






Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Biannual Flight Review
C-150, N60614

PTS > Local

Hobbs: 1.1
Landings: 3

Remarks, Procedures, Manuevers:
Flight Review (Passed), steep turn, all stalls, emerg. landing, to/landings
With Tom Richards

Comments:
I was good to fly with Tom again, though it took a couple of times to get the schedule, plan and weather to all come together at the same time.

As it had been better than 6 months since I had flown, it was good to have an instructor with me to knock the rust off. It felt really good to be in the air again.

After looking at the logbook further, I determined that we did the biannual early. However, since I got my certificate in December, it is probably better to have gotten it out of the way, and the summer offers better weather for instruction anyway.