Flight with Aden to Watsonville for lunch. 3 landings total.
Departed KRHV and flew to check out the Calero reservoir where we had been hiking the day previous. This is under the 3,000' KSJC Class C shelf, and we were at 2,000' MSL, so we decided not to buzz the actual lake but just flew South of it then peeled off Southwards.
We saw that KWVI was still clouded over, so we went to Frasier Lake to do some landing practice. My first landing was a bit floopy -- I was about to bounce -- so I went around. My second landing was a good soft field 3-pointer. I pulled off the runway hoping to tie down and talk to folks in their hangars, but the guest tie-downs required that you bring your own ropes, and with the wind the way it was, we were not leaving the plane untied! So we took off again.
We checked the KWVI Wx and found it was now clear, so we went there. I did a short approach to rwy 20 and ended up coming out of my turn just as I passed the threashold, and a bit off centerline. I could have saved it but I just decided to go around and try again. My second landing was a good 3 pointer.
We had lunch and puttered around a bit.
We took off and came back to KRHV in somewhat bumpy air, and I elected to do a wheel landing. It was all good except for some tailwheel shimmy when I let the tail down. It's possible I should have waited for the plane to slow down some more.
Departed KRHV and flew to check out the Calero reservoir where we had been hiking the day previous. This is under the 3,000' KSJC Class C shelf, and we were at 2,000' MSL, so we decided not to buzz the actual lake but just flew South of it then peeled off Southwards.
We saw that KWVI was still clouded over, so we went to Frasier Lake to do some landing practice. My first landing was a bit floopy -- I was about to bounce -- so I went around. My second landing was a good soft field 3-pointer. I pulled off the runway hoping to tie down and talk to folks in their hangars, but the guest tie-downs required that you bring your own ropes, and with the wind the way it was, we were not leaving the plane untied! So we took off again.
We checked the KWVI Wx and found it was now clear, so we went there. I did a short approach to rwy 20 and ended up coming out of my turn just as I passed the threashold, and a bit off centerline. I could have saved it but I just decided to go around and try again. My second landing was a good 3 pointer.
We had lunch and puttered around a bit.
We took off and came back to KRHV in somewhat bumpy air, and I elected to do a wheel landing. It was all good except for some tailwheel shimmy when I let the tail down. It's possible I should have waited for the plane to slow down some more.
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