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Starting To See a Pattern

by on Mar.11, 2016, under Flight Training

This flight started-off a little hectic.  After getting all started-up, I made the call to ground for taxi clearance and got no response.  It also sounded wrong over the headset when the button was pressed.  After fiddling around with the radio and intercom, it seemed that we were not transmitting.  The school had a spare radio, so after a swap-out we tried to get underway again.  But again, ground did not respond when I called for clearance.  After waiting a bit, they finally did respond, saying that the fire department was in the tower because of a gas leak.  Apparently, the morning wasn’t just hectic for me.

I had prepared for the lesson expecting to head back over to the practice area and perform S turns and turns around a point again, since I had no wind to deal with last time.  Then if we had time, we’d take a shot around the pattern overflying the runway.  As we headed over there, there were some clouds above the spot we had used.  So we found another spot and after a couple of turns around a point (skipped the S turns), we headed straight over to K3CK for some practice in the pattern.  I had prepared to some extent and we talked it over before we took off, but had not memorized flow checks or anything.  We spent quite a bit of time over there, doing 4 circuits to a full stop.  It was quite overwhelming and I felt like I hadn’t prepared as well as I could have.  It seems like he really wanted to expose me to this, since I had commented previously that my landings were all a blur to me.  All of my landings were bad, but I was conscious of what I was doing and so had something to think about afterwards.

lesson-8-video

This is the first flight where I captured two camera angles.  I didn’t like having the side angle last time, so I tried mounting the foward-facing camera on the back window and the second camera facing the instruments.  That didn’t work well, because the camera didn’t get a good view out the front and what view it did get was overexposed from having so much of the cabin in the shot.  I’m going to install a self adhesive GoPro mount overhead so that it can see out the front better.  The instrument camera worked OK, but not great, as it couldn’t really see the altimeter from that angle.

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