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March 10, 2005

PPL ASEL completed

The first major leg has been completed... yay.

On Monday I went up to IWS and sat for my oral portion of the private pilot exam. I was overprepared, to say the least, but that was a good thing. It took about 3.5 hours all told including a good deal of oldschool stories from Hank which go with the territory. There was a line of TStorms all across the area and things were breaking in the sky, so although there was about 1.5 hours of clear air we could have tried to do some flying in, we decided to hold off on the flight portion of the exam until today.

So we got off the ground at about 10:30am this morning and after about 2.1 hours (which he reminded me constantly included a good portion of me "wasting time") and a lot of sweating, we touched back down the last time at IWS. To be honest when we came in, I was not sure if I had passed. I knew that on every maneuver I had done better in practice than in the actual test performance. My pilotage also got a good beating down, since he took my map and circled one place and said "go here" and it took me a long time to find it - then followed by another circle in an area I'd never been to and "ok now go here"... My first power on stall recovery was absolutely hideous, but I laughed it off (after not spinning the plane of course) and said "man, I've got to do that again that was awful) and I did it again with barely any loss of altitude.

So what do I have to work on? Clearly everything needs more work, and I get the idea now that it is a lifetime of practice to actually get these things second nature. My accuracy landing was not bad, but I did not hold my slip long enough and trust that I'd make it down right on the mark so I ballooned. My soft-field landing was only good because I kept the power in and got off the runway without stopping/braking, but it was not particularly "soft" ... my short-field takeoff/landings were not awful, but I ballooned on the landing again (something about wind free days make me a little weird)... in all those maneuvers, I was chastised for not trusting what I was doing and for being rough on the controls (which I do not think "rough" is really an accurate description)... keep in mind, the examiner has tens of thousands of hours of experience, so although you learn a lot from him everytime you fly you are NEVER GOOD ENOUGH. hah..

Pilotage - definitely needs work, so tomorrow I will probably go back out and fly to Bay City or some other area I've never been into and just mess around with my chart. I have to fly another 2.2 hours to complete the 55 logged hours at IWS. If I had not broken my arm, I'd probably still have a ton of hours to fly out there... so, in a way this is actually better.

Not that I don't enjoy the people and facilities/planes at IWS. It is a fantastic small airport, and makes experience at the large airports seem awful in contrast... but I just am ready to move on. I do wish I had come out of my PPL with more PIC time, but you know what, that would benefit my logbook but the more dual I received actually benefitted by flight abilities so I think it balances out. This is life and death stuff we're dealing with here, not riding a bicycle ...

So now I'm scheduled to start out at Houston Southwest on Monday at 8am (!)... !! .. ! .. this is several days earlier than I had expected to go out there, but I think what is going to happen is that I'll fly up to Dallas with Josie (one of the current Houston Southwest, hereafter KAXH or AXH) and stay in the ATP apartments for a few days to burn off the 30 hours in their 172. Wish they could get that silly plane down here instead. Incidentally, however, this means that I may start flying the Seminole on the trip up and down, depending on how they want to bill me for it. I don't want to waste Multi hours on a cross-country just to get to a single engine plane, as I only have limited hours on each segment to work with. Still, that's kind of neat.

This means that I'm now reading the Instrument books with pretty great fervor, as I'll need to start taking these other knowledge tests as soon as practical. The Instrument rating and Instrument Instructor written exams are based on the same pool of questions, and those are what I have to take first... I also need to memorize all the checklists for the outlined procedures in the Seminole supplement, as well as all the numbers.

Should be interesting... anyway. Hey I'm a pilot now :P

Posted by Chris Mitchell at March 10, 2005 07:34 PM

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