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So I haven’t updated in awhile but here’s a recap of the events over the last few weeks. I started flying a Cessna 172P which is a little nicer than the other plane I was flying. The major difference is it has a GPS!? I didn’t fool around with it much but it was cool looking over and seeing where I was on a map. The best part was it told me which radial I was on for a certain VOR, which was nice because we were practicing VOR navigation. But really, who needs it when ya got steam gauges? Anyways, the instructor gave me the OK to bring the camera aboard next time we go up, which hasn’t happened yet, more on that later..
Next time around we hit the simulator. Instructor walks in, “Ah, holds… Fun!” After about 45 minutes of drawing holds on a whiteboard with various scenarios we moved over to the flight simulator (which is basically a yoke, a communications panel, and a couple monitors). I tooled around the area entering holds in various ways and trying to maintain altitude, sorta, because the yoke is either too sensitive or unresponsive. The same input could put you in a 1000 FPM decent or have no effect at all. Go Figure.
Next round in the simulator will include more holds and some DME arcs. It was supposed to be Tuesday, then today, now who knows. My instructor got an interview somewhere, and now he’s stuck in Chicago. So I’m waiting to see when I can get back in and continue.
More soon (hopefully)!
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