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| It's been a few weeks since I last flew on N802CT. |
After conducting pre-flight, start-up, and run-up procedures, I got us airborne via a short-field takeoff and then we headed south of Spanish Fork to practice maneuvers. To start off, my instructor had me do some simulated instrument flying under the foggles; more than half of today's flight was spent under the hood. We started with some coordinated turns, followed by some practice in recovering from unusual attitudes after my instructor took the controls and jostle me around a bit. And while we were at it, my instructor had me do some VOR tracking via the Provo VOR for the first time in a while; needless to say, I could use a quick refresher on it so we both agreed to review VOR navigation again for a future flight.
My instructor had me take off the foggles and we decided to do a few more things before we've had enough. We decided to do some ground reference maneuvers but also make use of the altitude we needed to lose. My instructor gave me an emergency scenario and had me execute a simulated emergency rapid descent; I banked to the left the pushed the nose forward and we gained airspeed and lost altitude. Once we got to our desired altitude my instructor had me do some turns around a point and some S-turns across a road. For the most part, I had it down; I only had minor things and techniques I still needed to polish up on.
After that, we headed back to the airport. I entered the traffic pattern and set myself up to execute a short-field landing. After landing and clearing the runway, we taxied back to the ramp, shut down the engine, and called it another successful flight. We made a logbook entry and called it good.
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