Flight# 2

Finally, Bill dropped me at the place of my stay for the next two weeks. It's a five bedroom house with Pool and lake view from my bed room!

At present, I'm the only one in there with other students coming towards the end of this week. The second flight is schduled for 4 pm. So, I had little over an hour to take a break. I finally figured out the hack for Garmin Nuvi 200 GPS to record a trip. I am going to try it during the second flight.

Bikes are provided as part of the rental. The flight school is 3 minutes away by bicycle. I reached flight school by 4 pm for my second flight of the day. This time, we spent a lot of time doing a through preflight looking every nook and crook in the air frame. It's remarkable how it held up even after 43 years! I got to do lot more practice steering the plane on the ground with my feet. I'm getting better at it. Again, the take off was smooth. For some reason, I was not able to get Satellite signal to record the flight. :-( We climbed to 3,200 ft. I had the controls for most of the time. Practiced climbs, level flight and turns. We hit a few thermals on this flight which resulted in a few bumps. The Hobbs time for this flight was 0.7 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 1.1 hours.