Commercial Training - Day 6

Summary
Scheduled Time: 2PM - 5PM
Actual Hours Ground: 0.3
Actual Hours Flight: 1.2
Total Hours Flight: 3.8

The weather today was typical - gray and miserable - but the forecast showed lifting ceilings around 2:00 PM. I went to the airport with slim to no hope of flying, but the forecast turned out to be accurate and we decided to go do some more pattern work.

Today's training area was 180 degree turns to landing without power. We started out on the long runway, but other traffic caused us to switch back to the short runway. The first five or six approaches went well, then I seemed to hit my threshold of flying capability and things started getting sloppy. My approaches started to vary - too high or too low - and my touchdowns began to drop out of the sky the last couple feet. There was other traffic in the pattern on this side, too, so we had to change plans on downwind and do short field approaches in several cases. In one case, I was too high and we decided to just go around and try again.

Mike finally took pity on me and let me take the plane back to the FBO. All in all, a pretty good day of practice, except for the last few landings.