This is getting to be a had habit for me…not writing up my flying lessons right away. I remember when I used to write them up right after I got home…oh the good old days.
Did my first cross country flight last Sunday, the 22nd. A flight is apparently considered a ‘cross country’ if you travel more than 25 NM from your point of departure. This particular cross country was from Ottawa (YOW), to Smith Falls, (YSH) to Arnprior (NP3) and then back to Ottawa.
My last time flying was on July 21st…so it had been over a month since I had to control an airplane, and boy did it show! I was pretty rusty with most things so that didn’t make the flight any easier. It was a busy flight, continuously looking at the map, and the ground, trying to keep my altitude steady, as well as my heading. Then add to that my less than practiced knowledge of uncontrolled airport procedures and well, it was interesting.
Got a good feel for what I’ll need to do on my next cross country, which is a significantly longer one. It’s from Ottawa, down to Kingston and then back to Carp and then Ottawa.
My landings (touch and gos actually) at both Smith Falls and Arnprior weren’t picture perfect, but when I came back in on good old 22, I ‘greased it on’ as Brad likes to say. :)
I guess not a bad flight after taking a month off.