Scott James Remnant

My weather karma seems to have gone the wrong way. During the summer, when it was pouring with rain and nobody was flying due to the weather, I didn’t have a single cancellation. Now the winter’s arrived, which I was told often produces some wonderfully clear (albeit cold) days, I’ve had such a long string of cancellations that it’s now been six weeks since I last went flying!

That means that in twelve weeks I had just one booking that went ahead for a double lesson when I started in the circuit. It was inevitable that I was going to be somewhat rusty this time out in the air, and somewhat “behind the aircraft”.

Had another curve-ball as well, there was a pretty strong wind today blowing across the main runway so we’d be using the much shorter cross-wind Runway 23. So today I would be flying a different circuit than last time, in a different direction onto a shorter runway.

I think it’s fair to say that almost all of my landings weren’t exactly greasers, except for the one that for some reason I got almost exactly right. A couple of silly mistakes along the way didn’t help either, but in general I got most things right and just had some issues with the approach — difficult on this runway anyway, and the flare. Practice will sort both of those out.

In the time since the last flight, I’d bought a simple GPS unit (Locosys GT-11) so I could record the track of where I’ve flown. Here’s the track of today’s flying:

P/UT Hours Today 0:45, Total 11:35