Monday, June 25, 2007

Pilot's logbook

6/25 C-152 N69011 Lou Lou Touch & Go's Landings: 10 1.4 hr MB

prep: Gleim this morning: Pressure Altitude section, 2nd time, it was easy. The only mistakes were a couple of arithmetic and simple copying errors.
The Weights and Balance section was slower going. It's not really hard, just poky until you figure out what the angles and contexts are. I didn't finish it, maybe tonight.

(Seems like I must have done something else. A little gardening and housework. Oh yeah, I also spent time working on a couple of recordings, Resurrexi and Taylor's last session as a cantor, and two recordings of eclectic "feel good" stuff for a gift. Some of this really put me back into a different mode.)

5:00 Another inconsistent session. Bounced between breaking the glide slope 4 times in a row to too high, too high. Mostly too low. Pattern not safe.

"It gets pretty quiet in there."
Considerable right rudder on takeoff.
No left rudder in the turn downwind.
Need to slow it down by bringing the nose level sooner--you're doing it at 5 or 6 feet,I'd like it sooner, but it works for you.
"The angle"--get out far enough. Be high enough to make decisions.. power, flaps, (don't be losing 400 feet in the turn to base).
Breaking glide slope on checkride is a fail.

If you actually stall 20 feet above the runway and come down flat, you can break your back.

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