Saturday April 18th
What a beautiful day! Calm winds, sunny, and clear. My two boys where there for the first time to help me with the pre-flight inspection. We took off from Blue Ash and headed to the practice area over Trenton. We practiced a couple power on stalls in a bank and then headed over to Middletown-Hook field. The light wind was almost straight down the runway and I setup in the traffic pattern and made a very nice pattern and landing. We taxxied back to runway 23, took off again, and stayed in the pattern. The second landing was just about as nice and we took right back off with a touch and go. At this point it was time to head back to Blue Ash were I setup in the pattern and Cameron pulled the throttle to idle at the end of the downwind leg and said "engine out". I started a turn to a short final to make sure I made it back to the runway in time. I acually got back with too much altitude as we were halfway down the runway and I was still airborn. We performed a go around and on the next pattern I cut the final too short and again was too high for a landing. Another go around, setup in the pattern and careful control of the altitude, I was in good shape on final and made another good landing.
Next lesson will be April 27 and I am going to be taking a pre-solo written test and will fly with a different instructor for a review.
No comments:
Post a Comment