N291DR 2.3 Practice grass landings at Frasier Lake

I went out for a series of practice landings, at Frasier Lake (1C9). I did 10 landings on the grass, then 1 landing back at KRHV. All my landings were power-off approaches, except in some cases where I mis-judged my energy and had to add a teeny bit of power to land on the runway threshold rather than the grass prior to the "official" start of the runway. Generally things went really well. I was using Airball too, and that worked quite well!

N291DR 0.8 Airball data gathering flight

Quick flight out of KRHV to get data from the airdata equipment. Went out over and past UTC and did some stalls and slips at different speeds, then returned for closed traffic. Came in hoping to make a fast descent up till short final but ended up with too much energy and went around. My second time around I did a good touch and go, though floating more than I would like even though I kept it at 50 kias full flaps on final. The last time was a full stop landing, again floating a bit more than I would like. It was bumpy today so I was instinctively holding more speed later in the approach, so that could have been a big part of the float.

N291DR 1.1 Airball data gathering flight

Quick Airball data gathering flight. Departed KRHV, did one landing and two go-arounds at E16, then returned and landed at KRHV.

At E16, I went around once because I misjudged the pattern and ended up offset, with bumpy air. The next time around a Cessna was ahead of me. They went around reporting something about "--ong wind". I was like, wrong wind? I am not the brightest dude but even I don't fancy landing with a tailwind if I can help it. I tried to look at the windsock as I was on final, and all I could tell is either it was pointing straight at me or straight away from me. By the time I realized the wind was indeed favoring the runway I was on, I was too high to make a clean landing so I went around again. And anyway by that time I needed to go home and analyze my data so I decided to return to KRHV.