Pilot Life: Maintenance Flight to Corvallis

The plane was scheduled to go in for maintenance at Corvallis and get some upgrades as part of making it more instrument certified. My uncle and I drove down to Albany and we got the plane prepped. After the pre-flight was done, my uncle handed me the keys and drove off; he was having me fly the plane while he drove down to meet me there!

A solo flight in N5174E!

After all the usual before-takeoff procedures, I got the plane airborne. The smoke from all the wildfires burning along the west coast was pretty bad, so I didn't go higher than I had to. I made my way over to Corvallis and entered the traffic pattern for Runway 17. My uncle previously told me to get a touch-and-go in as it would take a little bit of time for him to drive down to Corvallis, so that's what I did!

After the touch-and-go landing, I got back in the air and ran one more circuit on left-traffic for Runway 17, where I would make a full-stop landing. After clearing off the runway, I taxied the Cessna over to the maintenance facilities; and my uncle was waiting for me! After shutting the engine down, we headed in to the avionics shop, left the plane in their care, and drove home from there.