Following from the previous lesson Yesterday, I was to do more circuits and hopefully have a longer period solo. The headwind was virtually 0knts meaning that, unless we used another Runway, we would have to use every inch of the runway to get us off. My instructor wanted me practicing on Runway 05 so we started from at close to the threshold as possible.
Today was a weekend and this meant that is was a lot busier. No engine warming was required as it had been flown beforehand, a quick check of the essentials and we were off. As stated above we needed to get a good take off run, which we did and after a normal take off leg we had to execute a tight circuit to give way to the Cessna that had taken off on Runway 28 (which is, straight down the nose Runway 05, which we were landing on). After a good landing my instructor got out and allowed me to go solo. This time I was more prepared and up to the task.
I performed 5 takeoff and 5 landings, a couple were a bit low and a couple a bit slow, however I recovered from them and did some good landings. After the experiance I felt like I had finally got the whole circuit palava.
This lesson was flown in G – ODAC.
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