Flight# 15

Today Bill and I reviewed Aircraft systems in between flights. As soon as Benjamin returned from the cross country trip around 3 pm, we topped off the tanks again and headed to the practice area taking off from Runway 11. I'm getting better at slow flights and power off stalls. I'm at least not losing that much altitude as I used to. Practiced several rounds of 360 degree turns in slow flight and steep turn configurations.

We also flew by the sod farm owned by one of Bill's friends. There was a grass strip on his farm but, we didn't land as the strip may not be long enough to take off again due to high density altitude. His friend came out to wave and we rolled our wings in response. We then picked a farm house and performed low altitude (1000 ft) circles around it correcting for wind through out the turn. On the way back to the airport, I got to practice the slip which was a lot of fun. Wind keeps changing direction. We had to use Runway 23 to land.

Since Bill was conducting a solo stage check for one of the students at 5 pm, I could go to the room little early today. Shortly there after, I got company after living in this house alone for the past 5 days. Another instructor (Mike) picked up a new student (Karl) from France at the Orlando airport and helped him check into the house. Looks like, Mike and Carl will be using N4655X too. In a day or two, it will be up for 100 hour inspection. Since Bill is also a mechanic, he wants to pitch in to speed up the 100 hour inspection. It will be interesting to see how the schedules pan out. I hope I will have a plane to fly!

The Hobbs time of this flight was 1.2 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 13.4 hours.