Flight# 17

Since the other Cessna 150 is still in the maintenance shop for repairs, Karl's instructor had scheduled N4655X for him. So, Bill and I couldn't get back into the air until 2:30 pm. Bill asked me to fly the plane to the Lakeland airport (KLAL) near the practice area since it has a longer runway so that I could practice Touch and Gos. Here is a sample video of a Touch and Go. Lakeland is a towered airport. So, I got to communicate with the control tower on the 124.5 mhz frequency. The controller was pretty busy through out the time we were over there sequencing the aircraft. Twice, the controller asked us to use the right hand traffic pattern to avoid running into some high speed aircraft and on one occasion, he asked us to come to a full stop on the runway since a helicopter was flying crosswind. I still need more practice to land the plane gracefully. Since some one else got the plane for 4:30 pm, we headed back to the Winter Haven airport (KGIF). After landing, we came to find out that the 4:30-6:00 pm reservation was canceled! Had we known that, we could have stayed for some more time in the air. Some one else got it reserved for 6:00-8:30 pm. So, that was it for today. Tomorrow is going to be a long day. We got the plane reserved from 7 am to 8 pm pretty much to ourselves.

The Hobbs time of this flight was 1.6 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 16.1 hours.