Another month of no flying - some family time, some vacation time, lots of work, and a bit of weather and suddenly it has been a month.
Today I had the aircraft booked for a dual cross-country to Kingston and Brockville, however the low cloud base precluded the cross-country trip. We flew circuits instead, exercising the landing gear.
Take-Offs:
- I have no issues or problems with normal and short-field take-offs, with and without obstacles, and we reviewed them and performed them.
- Crosswind takeoffs require a crosswind, which we did not have today,
- I have performed soft-field takeoffs in the Diamond Eclipse, but from a hard surface the high performance of that aircraft meant you were well airborne before you knew it -- and so my soft-field takeoff was under-practiced.
For each circuit I performed a normal landing - no sense trying the "specialty" landings unless you have the normal landings working smoothly.
After a few circuits demonstrating and practicing the short-field and normal take-offs, the instructor hopped out and I proceeded to grind out circuits. I got in a few short-field take-offs, but the airport was getting busy so stop&go landings would be very disruptive, so I reverted to normal touch&go landings.
Time: 0.8 dual, 0.7 solo
Landings: 3 dual, 9 solo
Summary: Landings improved significantly after the practice.
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