January 12, 2016 - Lesson with my CFI. I'm getting the hang of landing - The more you do, the easier they become. In addition, more variable factors that I'm exposed to will become a good foundation for being a good, safe pilot. Here's a few touch and goes from my last lesson, thanks for watching. If you have any questions, please post them in the comment section below.
Remarks:
Upon the advice of a good friend/pilot mentor (who is an ATP), I am completing the rest of private training with an instructor unless it is required for me to solo. Since I'm nearing the end of my training, there mostly remains preparation for my check ride as well (of course) the remainder of my solo work.
Most of my "informal training" was completed on computer simulators and video games. These are great to reinforce principals of flight, navigational tools, simulated equipment failures and early experience. They are horrible at simulating landings.
With this lesson, I decided to ask my instructor to create scenarios that I would encounter landing at unfamiliar airports and unusual pattern entry/work. I wanted to attack my weakness.
We headed to the nearest airport (Jean, NV 0L7) that wasn't so busy and practiced some unusual pattern entries, side slipping and even some emergency work with a loss of electricity and a simulated engine failure upon takeoff.
The last 1/2 hour (this video) we decided to head back home and do some pattern work and hope the towered airport would give us some unusual approaches with the traffic.
The aircraft nose wheel was not being nice upon takeoff, so you'll probably hear us joke about the vibration of it. It's more of a nuisance than an issue.
Plane - N392DC Diamond DA-20
Video - Garmin VIRB (with GPS metric overlays)
Cockpit recording - Lightspeed Zulu PFX
