My father-in-law Rick is visiting so we went for a flight in N291DR!
3 full-stop landings.
Wx was cloudy with ceilings around 4,000 feet, and bumpy due to lots of cumulus clouds, but definitely flyable for a local VFR flight.
We flew to E16 and did a couple practice landings, then stopped to use the port-a-pottie. Then we climbed up again and flew to Moss Landing, then up the coast to Santa Cruz, then up Hwy 17 to the Lexington Reservoir, across midfield KSJC, then back to KRHV.
As I noted, it was quite bumpy, but a blast, and that's why we fly LSAs -- to feel like we're flying! Rick is an instrument rated pilot himself and he flew for a while. It was great!
The landings at E16 were short approaches, both okay, but sort of bumpy bouncy landings since I was focused on making the runway and less on landing technique. The landing at KRHV was a longer approach but I was too high and ended up having to hit the flaps and burn energy like crazy, and doing a passable wheel landing.
3 full-stop landings.
Wx was cloudy with ceilings around 4,000 feet, and bumpy due to lots of cumulus clouds, but definitely flyable for a local VFR flight.
We flew to E16 and did a couple practice landings, then stopped to use the port-a-pottie. Then we climbed up again and flew to Moss Landing, then up the coast to Santa Cruz, then up Hwy 17 to the Lexington Reservoir, across midfield KSJC, then back to KRHV.
As I noted, it was quite bumpy, but a blast, and that's why we fly LSAs -- to feel like we're flying! Rick is an instrument rated pilot himself and he flew for a while. It was great!
The landings at E16 were short approaches, both okay, but sort of bumpy bouncy landings since I was focused on making the runway and less on landing technique. The landing at KRHV was a longer approach but I was too high and ended up having to hit the flaps and burn energy like crazy, and doing a passable wheel landing.
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