Winds ahhh.. Yeah..

I'm usually pretty good about remembering what the winds were.. I know they started out about 10 knots but towards the end, dropped down to at least 3. Oh well.. Well, due to my instructor taking a trip down to Kentucky (in the very same plane we flew in tonight), I grabbed her for an hour tonight. What did we do? We did pattern work. Today was all about landings. We did 5 touch -n-go's, 2 taxi-backs, and 1 full stop. I gave the controller a laugh tonight too. We were downwind on our way to our last landing and I called the tower and said "Pontiac Tower, Cessna 73455, inbound for termination." and the tower said "Inbound? " and I said back "We'll be terminating on this one, thanks. " "No problem, cleared to land, 27 right".. So many times, I just wasn't thinking. I mean, we were inbound to land, just already in the pattern. heheh.. Then we heard the funniest thing. A pilot was radioing the tower, telling him they were inbound to Pontiac, and the tower said to report when they were two miles southwest. So about 10 or 15 minutes later, the same guy radioed back, and after a couple of exchanges, the tower had enough and asked him to ident, which he did. It showed him heading SW and the tower gave him vectors to Pontiac. The guy evidently was heading towards Mettatol airport and told the tower so and the tower said "Frequency Change approved" and that was that. So where was I??

Oh yeah, . So I noticed that my taxiing is way, way better then it was. I'm doing quite well keeping on the centerline. Flight time tonight was 1.0 hours with 8 landings for a total of 10 hours and 19 landings. I'm finally into double digits, WOO HOO!!!

Winds 300 at 13

Tonight's flight was a first in the flying in rain department. It wasn't really rain, rain. Just misty rain. Tonight we did more ground reference manuvers after being introduced to them. My instructor said that my S turns were pretty good for only my second time doing them. However, my turns around a point are more like ovals, or egg shapes. We also did some pattern work. 3 more landings tonight, and 1.1 in the plane for a total of 9.0 hours total and 11 landings.

Winds 190 at 11 gusting to 18

As you can tell, today was a fun day for crosswind landings and takeoffs. I learned alot today. I shook off some cobwebs too. It was a nice day for flying, a little hazy and bumpy up until about 4000 ft which is where we did most of the work today. We reviewed everything I've done so far up to this point at Tradewinds and learned some new things. Today was Turns about a point and S-Turns across a road. My S-turns need alot of improvement but my third and fourth turn about a point (a barn with silos in a big field) were better then the first two. I definately felt a little out of place. Tradewinds has a newer fleet of 172's and they're fuel injected rather then carborated as I learned today about when and what carb heat is. Heather said I did pretty good overall considering how long it was since the last time I flew. Today also filled up the first page in my logbook. Today was 1.3 in the plane, for a total of 7.9 with 8 landings.

A flying I won't go..

Not today at least. Thunderstorms aren't the greatest thing to fly in so, needless to say, I'm somewhat perturbed. Murphy's aviation law is at work today I think. I went out to the airport anyways and met my instructor and all the other instructors that are there. They're all good people. I know I'm going to like it there. Especially since they have a waiting room with a tv in it and when I came in had the Michigan game on the tv. So I'm going to reschedule my rained out lesson for today to next Saturday, and I'm going to do some studying. While watching the game of course.

A flying I will go..

Well, hopefully... I'm scheduled to take to the skies with my new instructor from my new school tomorrow at noon. The forecast is saying MVFR/IFR with showers but I'm hoping that it holds off until I'm done. I hope that I don't have too much trouble shaking the rust off.. Still, I am looking forward to tomorrow and getting up into the air.