3 More Flights...

This week I started off being rather busy having a further 3 flights: 'Climbing & Descending', 'Medium Turns' and 'Climbing & Descending 2. It added just over 3 more hours to my flight log, and it means I've only got a couple or more lessons (both about stalling), before being released into the reputably busy Hamilton circuits.

"Climbing & Descending" focused around entering and exiting a climb or descent, and the speeds and attitudes required to maintain them. The 'Medium Turns' lesson looked at how to enter, maintain and exit a 30 degree turn, of which we use for most turns in flight. 'Climbing & Descending 2', which we did over where they filmed The Hobbit (lots of bright-green rolling hills), centred on setting up for the final descent when we arrive at an airport from circuit height (typically 1200') down to the runway.

The daily flights were short lived as the weather took hold, and over the last few days we've experienced rather stormy weathe,r meaning nearly all flights today and yesterday were cancelled. Today there were crosswinds of 35kts (our maximum is around 10-15kts depending on experience).

As we all had Friday off, our course went into Hamilton on Thursday night and spent a lot of time (of what we can remember) in 'Bar 101', a place where I'm sure every CTC student has visited during their time here in Hamilton. We have also purchased cars this week, after we had to hand back our hire cars provided by CTC for the first 3 weeks. The car I jointly bought was this beauty:

Our trusty Honda CR-V

Hopefully the weather will improve quickly so we can get some more flights flown. Sunday (tomorrow) is looking brighter, but after that the pouring rain seems to be back. I'm not scheduled for a flight tomorrow, so golf is on the cards. Talking of scheduling, we get the next days schedule through at around 4:30PM, with the final copy at around 8:30PM and it has lots of coloured boxes with names in. Lets just hope I'll have more flights to report on next week, maybe I will have even done a circuit or two...