clumpinglitter (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} clumpinglitter) wrote,@ 2006-08-21 20:23:00 |
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factory day 1
We just keep going and going with ground -- FOI, endorsements, and a million random things, including a full checkride gouge. They usually don't do the gouge until the very last thing, but since I'm not here to learn how to be a CFI, we're starting with that. The checkride is scheduled for Friday. We discussed it, and I decide to go to a DPE at Cedar Rapids. They do things differently here, mostly because they do some checkrides through the Iowa FSDO. Cedar Rapids is a class C airport that I've never been to, so I'm not really sure about how that's going to work out. My instructor, Mark, says he will make sure I'm incredibly prepared for the airport and the practice area there. I hope so. It takes all morning to evaluate me well enough to know when to schedule the ride, but Mark says I'm pretty much ready for it now. This isn't quite true, but it won't take much more acronym-memorizing to get there.
Flying only amounts to 1.7 today, but in that time, we do slow flight clean and dirty, power off/on stalls, cross-control/trim/secondary stalls, steep turns, lazy 8s, chandelles, a steep spiral, 8s on pylons, S-turns, turns around a point, and VOR tracking. Mark does 8s on pylons really different than I'm used to -- it's like a completely different maneuver. So those are crappy, but he says everything else just needs polishing. Apparently, the "red, blue, green" check on final pegs me as someone from ANE. Tomorrow will be more flying than ground. No two people do any maneuver exactly the same, and I'm resistant to learning a new way when something else has worked for me in the past. But I'll try to get along.
Mark really likes instructing. He really, really, really likes it. A lot. He's done about 80 initial CFIs in the past 20 months. This is unreal, but a lot of those students went through the course a few at a time, not alone like me. I have lots of homework now.
... I also learned that I am a beacon riding virgin. I didn't know there was such a thing as beacon riding. I didn't see any ladder going up to the beacon, but there must be an easy way up, since someone has to change the light bulb, right?
UPDATE: I ate din-din out of a vending machine, and I miss my cats.
We just keep going and going with ground -- FOI, endorsements, and a million random things, including a full checkride gouge. They usually don't do the gouge until the very last thing, but since I'm not here to learn how to be a CFI, we're starting with that. The checkride is scheduled for Friday. We discussed it, and I decide to go to a DPE at Cedar Rapids. They do things differently here, mostly because they do some checkrides through the Iowa FSDO. Cedar Rapids is a class C airport that I've never been to, so I'm not really sure about how that's going to work out. My instructor, Mark, says he will make sure I'm incredibly prepared for the airport and the practice area there. I hope so. It takes all morning to evaluate me well enough to know when to schedule the ride, but Mark says I'm pretty much ready for it now. This isn't quite true, but it won't take much more acronym-memorizing to get there.
Flying only amounts to 1.7 today, but in that time, we do slow flight clean and dirty, power off/on stalls, cross-control/trim/secondary stalls, steep turns, lazy 8s, chandelles, a steep spiral, 8s on pylons, S-turns, turns around a point, and VOR tracking. Mark does 8s on pylons really different than I'm used to -- it's like a completely different maneuver. So those are crappy, but he says everything else just needs polishing. Apparently, the "red, blue, green" check on final pegs me as someone from ANE. Tomorrow will be more flying than ground. No two people do any maneuver exactly the same, and I'm resistant to learning a new way when something else has worked for me in the past. But I'll try to get along.
Mark really likes instructing. He really, really, really likes it. A lot. He's done about 80 initial CFIs in the past 20 months. This is unreal, but a lot of those students went through the course a few at a time, not alone like me. I have lots of homework now.
... I also learned that I am a beacon riding virgin. I didn't know there was such a thing as beacon riding. I didn't see any ladder going up to the beacon, but there must be an easy way up, since someone has to change the light bulb, right?
UPDATE: I ate din-din out of a vending machine, and I miss my cats.
