Now we come to the most painful phase of the training \u00e2\u20ac\u201c polishing the skills to get ready for the checkride. Not that flying of any kind is boring, mind you, but being under the hood tightening up things that you already know about doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly rank as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exciting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n
So we went up for some airwork today. Started out with something I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually done under the hood yet (although I did them plenty without the hood for my private license) which was steep turns. A bit rusty at first \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rolling in and out wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t smooth enough \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but other than that they were OK. Then a hold over at Fillmore, which went fine. Then came unusual attitudes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c fine again. Feeling pretty good, but not good enough to do an intersection hold. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll save that for next time. We shot the ILS coming home, which went well, considering the confusion on the radio. A jet and a twin behind me ended up putting me on the left (non-ILS) runway, so Kent had to vector me to the runway. I held the glideslope well, so that was good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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