As a final preparation for tomorrow morning's retake check ride, we practiced normal, short field take offs & landings and emergency procedures. The problem was I was coming in way too fast and was not paying attention to airspeed. Bill made me do wide patterns and that helped. It was way past 8 pm by the time we returned. We also simulated a couple engine failures.
These pictures are taken during this flight. On left is, my instructor, Bill with his headset on. Look at the beautiful sunset on the right!
The time of this flight was 1.0 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 65.1 hours.
Flight# 55:
Bill was taking Karl under wing to help him regain his confidence in landings. They took the plane for quite some time. As soon as they returned, I went to practice more landings around the pattern on my own.
The time of this flight was 0.7 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 64.1 hours.
Flight# 54:
Bill and I stayed in the pattern and practiced short field, normal and cross wind landings.
The time of this flight was 1.4 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 63.4 hours.
Flight# 53 - Checkride:
Bill walked me through the IACRA registration process. We went through all the hours recorded in the log book in detail to fill up the application. He then drove me to the seaplane base nearby for oral which is owned by the examiner, Chuck. He also happens to be Jimmy Buffett's pilot! The Oral was easy. Chuck and I then headed back to the airport for practical exam. Just like Fred, he also asked me to take him to Lake Wales. He asked me to land there which I never did before! I managed to get in the pattern and land there. Performed a soft field take off and landing and a short fied take off. But, while getting on final for short field landnig, a tail dragger cut me in the pattern and landed on the runway without any announcement! I was hoping it would get on the taxiway by the time I land. I should have gone around instead. That wasn't a good decision on my part. Chuck also took me to Bok tower and made me do circles around it, then S-turns, steep turns followed by power off and stalls (straight up, while turning left and while turning right), power on stall, turns in slow flight and recovering from unusual attitudes. It was bumpy due to thermals. On the way back to the airport, he also simulated an engine failure. I followed all the procedures but, he didn't like the area I picked to land. I also messed up the landing at GIF. He was fair and discussed with Bill and I on how I performed and asked us to practice more landings and gave a chance to retake the landing portion of the test again in the morning. I thought I could go home today. I guess not!
The time of this flight was 1.2 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 62.0 hours.
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