Episode 69
SPC #69 – World’s Okayest Pilot
In Episode 69, we join Bill as he finishes up his flight review after a long hiatus from flying and is once again legal to fly. Watch out as the world's okayest pilot starts hitting altitude again. I definitely needed a lot more practice, but I knew I was headed directly into my instrument training so I would get plenty of that before I went solo, most likely.
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Can I overcome the cobwebs and get through my flight review so I can start flying again? Find out today in episode 69 of the student pilot cast. World's okayest pilot.
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e in aviation. So you got to [:So, again, as I said, in one of the previous episodes, I'm leaving in quite a bit of the flight more than I think I used to. I know that's a lot of the reasons why a lot of you listen, I know that because you tell me. Uh, so I appreciate that feedback. We'll talk about that in a second.
ll of you so keep it coming. [: ow who's headed to AirVenture: [:---
In this segment, you'll notice that we went to the other end of the runway this time from, from the last flight. And so I was learning again about where the run-ups were done and some of the idiosyncrasies of this particular airport. In fact, I, I really didn't have that much experience flying at Falcon field up until this point. Since then most of my flying has been done from Falcon field but before that, a lot of my flying
Chandler or a little private [:I had landed there, pick people up, you know, things like that. But I was never based at Falcon field and so I didn't have a lot of that. Information that you get by flying in and out of there all the time. And so I was starting to pick up some of that information too, while we were, while we were doing this training. We also, while we were taxing, saw really cool old Cessna. I think it's called an AT-17 Bobcat. It's one of those times, every once in a while, I'm kind of thinking, man, I wish I did more video. But. Usually audio works for me, but
This is one of those times. I wish I had some video of that cessna that old Cessna. It's pretty cool.
And since we were [: c pattern altitude the whole [:.
Back to the flight then. So we get to review my review we'll start with getting the ATIS and doing the run-up.
Oh, we
did break. Tower, information Bravo, 195.
4 Zulu,
299. Approach is your own use. Land on 22 left and 22 right. 5G NOTAM is in effect for Falcon Airport.
ave information Bravo. Bravo.[:Landing 22, right? Yep. Five tower French and bravo. You done with that? 5, 4, 0 wind? One. That's all the way out and staying at a thousand. Seriously? Yeah. Oh, it was locked. That's why. Huh? All right.
I didn't yank on it hard enough. Um, alright, flight instruments. That one is about right.
Oh, look at that. That's even right. Yeah. Can't believe that. Alright, airport diagram. Alright. Go. Should be good to go, huh? Yep. Yeah, we'll just go where they are, we'll kind of pull 7 there and give them a call. Okay. And there she goes.
we're holding short of Delta [:What in the hell is this thing coming up? Oh yeah. Oh, that's that, uh, I know where that is. That thing's been sitting under a tie down for like, ten years and hasn't moved. It looks like an old beach. That's actually a Cessna right there. They call it like a Bonanza Bomber or something, or a Bamboo Bomber.
Wow. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Alright, sorry I won't distract you. That's okay. Uh, let's see. Delta 7, huh? Yep. And Bravo. I almost said Chandler. Falcon Ground, Red Rock 66 is at Delta 7. Uh, we're going to be departing to the south and we have Bravo. Red Rock 66, Falcon Ground, journey 22L via Delta, verify your departure request.
, we're going to [:Oh, okay. Because, typically, when everybody goes out to the south, they fly at 3, 700 feet, and they go over the top of Chandler, but if you're going to Chandler, you basically just stay at their traffic pattern altitude. Okay. And, uh, they just like to know, because all the people That are coming from Chandler back to Falcon, start descending, so you'll be on like a direct kind of path of their descent.
I forgot to mention that. I forgot we were going to Chandler.
We actually never read back the taxi instructions, but she's alright. Yeah, I did. Oh, you did? Yes. Oh, okay.
o, south departure. Red Rock [:Red Rock 83, Falcon ground, turning to the left, taxi via Delta. Alright. Where are the run ups here? Yep, right there. Just go pull up next to them. Just pull out here? Uh huh. Okay. Doesn't have a nice line like on the other side? No, not like the other side.
So, just next to them, huh? Yep. Okay. Finding Falcon is like one of the biggest run up areas I've ever seen. Okay. Yeah, it's kind of nice. And, uh, everywhere else you go, it's a little tiny, just pull out. Right.
You good with this? Huh? Alright, run up. Parking brake, I got it. Next to your ridge. Flight controls. I'm in 247 Delta Alpha Falcon Ground. I see you on Delta 3. Taxi straight into the ramp. You can just monitor ground. Or, uh, monitor me. Free and correct. Throttle 2, 000.
Alright, magnetos. Left.
[:And, keeps running. So we're back to a thousand, oops. Alright. Alright, flight instruments, check them again, let's see.
This looks good.
irect to Chandler from here. [:So I'd zoom in and then this is zooming out. Okay, thanks. Um, transponder 1,204 takeoff brief. All right. How do you guys do your briefings? I probably the same that you've always done it. I usually kinda say we're on the runway, we had any kind of issues. We'll chop the throttle, break, get off. If, uh, we take off, if we got plenty of runway left to land, we'll set her back down, do the same thing, and then, uh.
lways say the golf course or [:And then 1, 000 or above, we'll turn back around and land on 4 left. Okay. Good deal.
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So now we're ready for before. Take off checklist. There's some good instruction here from Ryan on being ready to depart in case they want to rush you out, which happens sometimes, but usually it's the opposite, but it's good to be ready.
Alright, and before you give her a call, do the before takeoff. Sometimes, a lot of the times here they give you the no delay and rush you out.
Okay.
Before takeoff, fuel pump is on.
Landing light.
h, Falcon. He's calling you. [:I'm assuming she heard me. Yeah, she did. Yeah. Here, they're not very big on giving you hold short clearances. Okay. Or readbacks. At every other airport I've been to, when you call them, they tell you to keep holding short. Here, they just don't say anything, or they just say Roger. Which I always found odd. Is that guy doing S turns at that low?
I think he might have just got a little gust or something. I was wondering the same thing.
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hich isn't a terrible way to [:So, let me know what you guys prefer when you're flying. Track up, north up, both, neither. Maybe you think screens are for the living room and not the cockpit. Either way, let me know your MO. I'm always curious, like I said, I like to see what people are doing and maybe I can learn something.
I would love to track the responses. All right. I'm sorry. I can't help myself. Let's keep going.
You a north up guy? Or are you a track up guy?
I'm a north up [:me
too. Yeah. I think track up is the wonkiest
thing
ever. I
think people who do track up belong in insane asylums.
I can do it both ways, but I prefer to read the map.
I get so turned around when I look at it like that.
I used to do a lot of track up, actually. Really? Yeah. I tried it once. It's just hard to read. Yeah,
it's like, I like to read it and everything's upside down.
Yeah,
right. Well, that's one of the beautiful things about these digital maps is everything stays upright no matter how it turns.
Uh huh.
But it is hard to get your bearings sometimes. Yeah. Because you're like.
I don't like it. When you're heading south, everything's upside down. I'm like, what am I looking at?
Exactly.
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akeoff then. So let's get to [:Red Rock 66, channel departure approved, runway 22L, cleared for takeoff.
Cleared for takeoff, 22L, Red Rock 66.
Oxford: L, cleared to land, Oxford:He's right there.
He's on the other runway. Oh, okay. It always looks like they're lined up, it's freaky.
Alright, I've got basically 22 on the direction.
Okay.
2285, uh, uh, with information, Charlie font arrival
and we're in the green air speed is alive.
2025 Tower one one
and 85 South Tower Red Rock. 91 is number one holding short. Two two left.
Officer 50 Connect Phoenix Park
. Thank [:It's a little more windy up here than it felt like on the ground. Eh, maybe a little bit of thermals, maybe. Going too fast. Oh. Okay. I like to kind of use this track to help me out when I have something in GPS.
If you keep the, uh, 220 on there, you pretty much know you're tracking straight out. Good point. Yep. My turn? Yep. And that's to the south, right? Yep. Just towards Chandler. Okay.
Five. This will be here in seven minutes.
Mark three. Hold short. Two. [:Go on, just go ahead and ask her. Alright. No. Falcon Tower, Red Rock 66, frequency change? Frequency change approved, thanks. Red Rock 66. Okay.
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So we're headed toward Chandler staying low, so we have to get the ATIS there and get in to land. You'll notice that Ryan is talking about the glide slope they have there. And if you're following their PAPI, it seems really shallow. I checked afterwards and it claims a three degree glide path, but Ryan was right, it seemed kind of low. But. It's probably just because we're so used to the four degree slope at Falcon. Who knows?
as by himself at this point, [:So he wasn't willing to give us multiple touch and gos. So we pivoted a couple of times as you'll hear in the next segment. We'd figure something out. We'll pick it up from there.
Should I get Aegis first?
It's already in there, you just got to click it on the audio panel.
Papa.
Chandler ATIS Information Papa, Tom 2 0 4 7 Zulu, wind 2 4 0 at 8, visibility 1,
altimeter 2 9 9 6. Runway 22 in use. Expect visual approach. Use caution crane 1 nautical miles southwest 125 feet AGL. Crane point 3 nautical miles south southeast 177 feet AGL. Taxiway Charlie pattern closed. All arrivals and departures contact tower 126. 1. Advise on initial contact you have information papa.
Papa. [:Chandler Tower, Red Rock 66 is away just south of Falcon, uh, 2, 500 feet. Inbound for touch and go's and we have papa. Red Rock 66, Chandler Tower, unable multiple touch and go's. I can give you one and then say your intention. Alright, we'll take the one touch ago, then just a south departure for Red Rock 66.
their pattern altitude? It's: one, extend down one. Roger. [:Red Rock 66 state type aircraft. Cherokee 180, Roger.
Alright, see it out there. I see it. Cool. Can they gimme the, did he tell us straight in for two Two, right Or left Charlie at the Hill Pack code lane? It was one of the two. He'll tell us soon. Okay. But I just kinda like to parallel, uh, this road right here. I think it's, this is Lindsey right here. Nine zero.
Charlie, if you just either get over the top of it or stay just to the left of it and parallel it, I kind of break off into a straight in from there. Okay. And if we fall out, we're well clear of gateways, I suppose, so we should be alright. Yep, alright.
Man, got a little bumpy out here. Yeah, and they're reporting 8 knots over there. Oh, are they? Yeah. Wow.
L. I'll go before, [:That wasn't for us, right? No. Um, before landing, 8S got it. Fuel pump is on. Fuel, proper tank is good. Texture is rich still, carb heat. Landing light is on. Five miles out. Okay. 12 o'clock, two miles, on a straight in final as a Cherokee. 2, 400, we're gonna put the Cherokee in sight. That's us. Red Rock 66, runway 22 right, clear touch and go, fly straight out.
for a second, pull the power [:Let's get a knock flaps in, we're on our wide arc.
And just watch your speed, you're right on the edge of that wide arc there.
1,
18, traffic, ahead and to your left on final for the right side is a Cherokee, altitude in case 1, 900. I feel like Chandler
has the lowest looking glide slope ever.
Air Sun 818, Channel 1 Tower, how do you hear? Air Sun 818, roger. Air Sun 726, you're number 2 for the runway following a Cherokee a mile ahead of you in the base turn when able to report the traffic in sight.
Number 2, runway 2, Tower. Hit the last
one. Let's start shooting for 80 miles an hour on final here. Okay. And try and follow your two white two rides all the way down to the runway
on 7 26. Number two, follow the Cherokee left. You're probably just about on the quick go.
Very bottom of it. Of those two whites, two rides, they got a load lights up
here, [:Sears traffic on a two and a half mile right base.
Three zero Tango. Just give a heads up. You're transmitting Tower on both the Tower and ground final fan. Yeah, I'm the only one up here. So it's all ference, sir. A little low, huh? Not according to that thing. Really? They said Chandler has the lowest glide slope I've ever seen. Takes you like right over the top of these buildings.
We've got two whites, two reds, so we're good. Follow it down.
No wonder he wasn't able to give us touch and go's. Yeah, he's busy.
Very good. Start pulling back a little bit. Keep your nose down. down. Keep it down. Down. TherE you go. Bad gun pull.
Helicopter. Seven. You pull it all the way up miles south. Stop.
Just look at the end of the runway. Keep pulling it up. Pull it up.
Five, six. [:You expect the plenty. Your runway Take your
time.
Alright. Negative on the runway, we will requesting the he at this accident. Seven. Cut. Five, six. Report South Point report. South 0.705. Six two. Arizona 18. No delay on the runway. Right. Turn at Lima. Hold short. And we teach you right. Remain this frequency.
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So once again, it seems I landed a little flat. We would definitely have to get that corrected today. There was a another plane that read back a clearance that he never got that you'll hear here, so that was kind of interesting, so listen for that. We'll play it from here and then we'll decide what we're going to do.
You see it a little bit more nose up on that, it's just a little bit flat.
Yeah. I didn't, uh, judge my
altitude, my height, very
eport the Cherokee in sight. [:3 Romeo.
Cessna 1 3 Romeo, roger. Number two, follow the Cherokee.
Runway 22L, cleared touch and go. Number
two, 22L, cleared
touch
and go. Cleared touch and
go, 1 3 Romeo. Red Rock 66, fly straight out.
Flying straight out, Red
Rock 66. Alright, so let's go down to the south And we'll kind of head on back to Falcon Island.
We'll head
on back to
Falcon Island.
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Scratch that then. Ryan decided not to mess with going south and doing all that other stuff,
and we wanted to try our luck back at Falcon. Which would work out nicely as you'll hear later, here you go.
You know what? Challenge tower, Red Rock 66. Can we actually make our departure back to Falcon?
And Cub 712, the Cirrus traffic you're following is short final. There's traffic off your left for the left side of Cessna.
Cub 712, roger.
back to Falcon for Red Rock [:Can we turn now? Yeah.
d if you just want to stay at:Set cruise power there. Yeah. My plan didn't work. Thought it'd be nice and calm there. One, let's get back down a little bit. The next taxi away, and then contact ground traffic on final of the follow. We'll turn on the next taxi. Six one Charlie Delta
Tower 7 26. 7 26. Roger, make uh, continue straight out straight. Well, if he's gonna make it full stop. Can't we stay here? helicopter. Oh, actually Chandler Tower . Can we take his spot?
hink you're still holding in [:Or we just need some left rudder trim.
Yeah, it felt like I was trying to overcome something, but I thought it was wind. But I guess not. Yeah, my feet are off. Yeah, someone just had to trim it out a lot. Alright, try and get back down to 12 o'clock.
And I would ask him for a frequency change.
Chandler Tower, Red Rock 66, request frequency change. Chandler Tower, Red Rock 66, request frequency change. Red Rock 66, frequency change approved, traffic 12 o'clock, one mile south, on TAP and announcing in case 3, 700. Alright, we're looking. Thanks, Red Rock 66. Thirty seven are way above us. Alright, so I think the eight is probably changed.
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back to getting weather and [:So I didn't hear any of the instructions after that. I pushed it a few times to try and unstick it and it finally came back. But she was done with her transmission by then. Luckily, she must have heard that she got stepped on because she repeated it soon after, after someone else had piped in for a minute.
Here you go.
It's only fifteen past the hour.
Temperature one six, dew point minus seven, altimeter two niner, niner five. Visual approach in use, runway 22R and left IR in use. Attention all aircraft, priority notice in effect for Falcon Airports. For further information, contact flight service frequencies. Obstacle crane on south ramp, up to 50 feet, AGL.
Arrival south of runway [:Charlie. Charlie. Alright. Hey, you can give him a call, and let's try doing touch and go's there, I guess.
And what do I do as a position?
Uh, let's do this.
Let's go ahead and punch in direct Falcon, and that'll give you some distance.
're descending to at or below:And give him a call.
Falcon Tower, Red Rock 66, 8. 5 miles south, inbound with Charlie for touch and go. Cessna
miles and engage: we'll look for that traffic,: Welcome to Rochford: Rochford: t Phoenix, departure Rochford:Red Rock 66,
ur mic got stuck. . Let's get:I didn't hear what she said. Red
Rock 66, make left traffic, runway 22 left.
Make left traffic for 22L, Red Rocks, 66. There you
go. Yeah, you hit your mic and it got stuck for some
reason.
This right here is the Bravo shelf that gets everybody, so you just gotta be careful about that. It starts at 2, 700 feet, so you gotta be real nice.
low [:Uh, look for that traffic, chart time 306. Chart
time 306, additional traffic ahead to your left one mile on the case, uh, 2,
800 southbound.
Archer. Roger, looking, chart time 306. Chart time
, request VFR:It's safe, it's seven kilo alpha.
Ten three zero six, do you want a left downwind departure or are you heading south?
There's someone right there.
Yep. Ten three zero six roger, I see you now making a left turn northeast bound.
Tower Report, three two Bravo Rock 66. Traffic toll clock. One mile indicates 2,400 Northeast Bound Pilates
traffic in site. Red Rock 66
[:secret about this plan. That's an electric trend if you want to use it. Tower.
Oh, really? Left.
Eight efa Roger
Rock 66, extend down, we'll extend down lane in Red Rock. 66. 7 7 7 4. Fable turn left out to seven straight into the ram. Under ground left. I don't see anyone else in the pattern. No, she would've probably told you by now if there was two left. So, just make a normal downwind when you're ready to turn and extend it.
I mean, I'm okay getting a little closer, right? Yeah, you're fine. About a mile wide. Okay. So, you just kind of got to use your eye ometer to figure it out. Yep. I like to use this thing to kind of help me, but that's from the center of the airport. Yep. So right now we're kind of at a slant. But when you're midfield, you're downwind, that should say about a mile.
it and start slowing down to [: Fox: [:---
and Ryan took care of that. [:I was like, what is happening here? So short approach, cars on the runway, stuck mics Things were getting a little nuts.
Airport 5, hold short runway 22R, taxi with Charlie.
So let's pull a little bit of power out. We're going to get down to 100 here. A little bit fast.
Why is there somebody going the wrong way on the
runway? That's a car. That's an airport vehicle.
Okay. Charlie, contact tower:Correction, no.
Short approach, Red Rock 66, cleared to land.
Short approach, Red Rock 66, cleared to land. Hold throttle idle.
Hold
all the way to
idle.
You lost your engine.
We're just going to land it on that runway.
2 2
[:Red Rock 66.
Just pitch for best
glide here. You can start getting flaps in.
Best glide, uh, way too fast.
Yeah, it started getting flaps and then started getting pretty short here.
And, uh, medvac traffic. Say again. We're about,
uh,
10 miles
to the, uh, northwest inbound to land at the, I'll probably get all of the, this is four seven
medevac. 4 0 7 Romeo Falcon Tower. Stand your down wind. Now from short approach.
That turned out being a little different.
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So with my recent inexperience and the bit of chaos that was going on around me and all the stuff going on, I clearly got a little behind the airplane here. I was using too much rudder. I was letting my altitude get away from me. I'm just having a problem holding my speed correct, et cetera. Was I going to be able to make my first decent landing or not? I guess we'll have to see.
So [: reason another may have been [:I quickly got back into making sure I was keeping it coordinated. Um, but I was just using too much. It was one of the, several things that was happening because I was so out of practice.
So my advice with rudders YAW'lll need to do better on the rudders than I did.
guess you'll never know. So [:On the go, they switched us up to the other runway and between me flubbing, the radio calls and the other traffic. People stepping on each other, et cetera. It got a little confusing again.
Cross
1900. Too fast. You're good. I keep her pitch down. Just getting that ground effect. You
want me to
slip? Yeah, if you want.
Get a little right route left Runway diamond.
There you go.
Perfect. Pull out of it now. Put down our
ground check.
And she did say touch and go her option, right? I believe
so.
I think she might
have said land. Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Oh, traffic. Two, two left. Hold on. Don't Tower. Red Rock. 66. We were cleared for the touch. Go right.
Rock 66 1 8 2 left. Clear touch and go.
Two, two left. Clear touch. Go. Red Rock 66
est of your delta. Uh, looks [:Oh, Red Rock 66. What? Well, continue straight out, switch to 22 right and contact tower 119. 7, Red Rock 66. Everybody, just use caution. You're stepping over everybody. Um, if they transition, take call sign and request. Alright, go We are transitioning over to airspace at three thousand five. Airport five, all league short.
And just to call them, this is the north tower, so they're going to switch us runways. So just say Falcon Tower, we're straight out of two two right, or two two left. Falcon Tower, Red Rock sixty six, we're straight out from two two left.
ower, continue straight out. [:Couldn't tell if we are approved to turn or not. Yeah, you're good. Stay at 24, start turning. With You're using a little bit too much rudder on the turns. Okay. A little bit less. And, let's get back down. We're going underneath this brawler shelf here, so you've got to be real careful about your altitude.
Red Rock 53, over Fountain Hills, it's probably requesting a full stop. Red Rock 53, Fountain Hills, right base 22 right. Right base 22 right, Red Rock 53. Okay, let's slow down.
Alright, let's start turning it down. When that guy's got out to the northeast.
Okay.
our nose back down. Alright. [:000 RPM will keep you right at 100.
Hopefully we can just make this one a nice normal landing. It's been a chaotic flight so far. Yeah, I'm not helping. There's traffic right there. Okay, I'm descending at 2, 000. 2, 000.
Too fast, I guess.
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e the turning point, the one [:let's keep it going.
Alright, so this is the perfect distance away. I just kind of hold this width from the runway.
And we're extending her
downwind, so usually when they tell me to do that, I don't even start descending or anything. Because sometimes they send you out an extra quarter mile, sometimes they send you out, like, past the dam over there.
al quick. Fuel pumps still on:What he's having us extend for.
et the nose down. Yep. Oxford:Plenty of time down, directly touching you. That was you. Cleared touch and go 22 right, Red Rock 66.
We're a little far out, so I probably need a little extra power, right? Yeah, get your second notch of flaps in. Maybe just descend a little bit less. Okay. Like two, three hundred foot per minute instead of five. But I think you honestly look pretty good, so I would just keep going down what you were doing.
And we should be at 90 here on base. We are. Alright.
nose up a little bit with it.[:And keep your turn coming. Don't worry about the flaps until you're Established. Still a little low. That is a
way different Light slope then at Chandler. Oh, I know. Chandler's is like, you're coming in like a jet. Alright, now that we're on it, get your nose down so I don't get above it. Yep. And get your last set of flaps in. Alright, so on this one, once you get in that round out, your roundout height is perfect.
Just make sure you're looking at the end of the runway and bring up your nose a little bit higher. Last year were just a little bit flat. Yep. 50 41. Extend downfall. Its arch over the dam and add a little
there. It's. Just keep that nose pointed down.
Hold it. Hold it. There you [:.
58, 41. Number four teacher. Right. Clear touch. Go follow. Good. That was a lot better. Yeah,
that felt better. The
floor clear would like to make him sound Full stop. 58 41. Sorry, you said that teacher right? Clear away and follow the archer. Not not following
the archer. Exit.
58,
4 1.
Why
am I going so fast? I get that nose up. Now I'm back. It's wintertime. This seems like to climb for once.
ht. You can make that turn in: [:---
Finally. That was better. It was something I could build on. So let's head around the pattern one more time and see if we can make better landings, well, a pattern.
in your, uh, recliner there. [: . Officer. The:I'm assuming I don't have to extend this time. Uh, no, I didn't tell you to, so you should be good. He hasn't told you to follow anybody, so you can assume you're number one until he says otherwise.
Alright, so there's our numbers, so pull to the left. And you said more like 17.
And you're turned in towards the runways a little bit, so kind of come back out just a tad, so we don't shorten our base. Sure. There you go.
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and we'll try this one more [:Cleared touch and go, 22 right, Red Rock 66. And, there we
go,
90. Alright, so now I kind of like to start judging am I going to be high or low, so it looks like we're going to be a little bit low, so let's start kind of fixing that now. I'm going to turn a little early because of that too. Okay. Let's make it nice and wide.
There she is. And once you get on it, you gotta adjust right away, or you see how quickly it'll die. Yep. Gotta get that nose down. And pull the power out too.
Pull out a little more.
Definitely got a little wind coming from the left here. There she is.
Speed is good.
Nice.
Thank you. That looked good. [:We'll do this next one, then we'll make the next one a full stop. Two more then? Yeah. Okay. I want to take advantage of the empty pattern. Right. We must be in between lessons. Yeah, we must be in between like, uh, their blocks or whatever. They come and leave in hordes.
That cowling kind of throws me off. Oh, the hump in the middle? Yeah. Ha, ha, ha.
Clear touch and go, 22 right, Red Rock 66. I know why I'm hitting it. That thing is hard to reach. This position of the push to throttle. Oh yeah, it is a little weird. Yeah,
.
All right, it's feeling a little better.
Yeah, you're looking good here. I feel
like I'm
, on this next one, just try [:If you point right in between that, it keeps you totally parallel to it. Cool. If there's no wind outside. Of course, when you got wind drift, you got to fix a bit, but. I'm a little high. All right, so we're past the numbers here.
Okay.
You're doing your thing.
The nose down. First
notch. I'm just trying to shoot for the, uh, about 500 foot per minute this time.
You were a little bit more than that last time. I think that's why we ended up low.
Come on.
Okay.
This
looks about right to me. That looks perfect right now. A little slow though. So far this pattern should be in a textbook somewhere. Looks beautiful. And let's get it lined up here.
White and red.
Getting past. [:I should be 85, right? 80. 80? Yep. Okay. Get to 80 then. There we go.
That's right, 190, 80.
Yeah, it's still walking the power out about now. All the way out. Yeah, it's all the way. Okay. Hold her off. Oop, get that nose around.
Not as good. A little balloon there. Yep. That's alright though. Try to get on the center line.
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Well, while that one wasn't as good as the last one, at least it wasn't flat. I ballooned a little, probably had a little too much speed, but we made it work. I had one more to do. So let's take it from there.
[:Also because we park on the south side of the runway and the ATC folks know that. When they can, they'll switch us over to the south runway when it's our last landing, which is nice of them. Probably also helps them with taxi jam ups and various holdups getting people across active runways, but I'm just going to go with them being nice. Well, they did that here.
the runway, but neither Ryan [:Tower, Red Rock 66, this next one a full stop terminate. Tower, Warrior
70, Papa Fox Trot is making a right turn to join a left downwind. 470PF, it appears you're doing a 360, you can just turn towards the base now, we're on 22R cleared to land. Turning towards the base, 22R cleared to land, we're at 70PF. Talk to Red Rock 66, we'll make this next one a full step down there.
PF, just for the future [:Right base for 2 2 right, November 1 1 0 go.
Alright. End on a good one. It's going to be the best one yet. Let's see it.
Red Rock 66, Tower, call your base, contact Tower 1 1 2 4. 6, change to 2 2 left. Alright, we're going to change to 2 2 left, we'll call Tower on 1 and extend our base, Red Rock 66. Did I get that all? Yeah.
all our base departure front [:Just you have to remain. You're all over the place fast.
Go down a
bit.
Northeast is approved as long as I'm east of the center shop.
Don't let airplane fly you. Yep.
Contact ground Red
Rock. 91.
Geez. Talking tower Red Rock 66 is on right base. 4, 2, 2. Left
down one right down 66. So dispatch behind, uh, traffic off your right.
Change two, two left runway. Two two left. Third lane,
clear to left. Two, two. Land two. Two left. Number two, we're looking for traffic. Red Rock. 66.
not. Falcon Tower, Red Rock [:This guy has
so much attitude, I love it.
All right. You can definitely start pulling power and getting slapped in. Okay. You're climbing together.
Oh yeah. Red Rock 66. You can turn base. If you didn't hear me. We're on base. Red Rock 66. Roger. Whiskey left turn prove runway. Two two left. Clear
forgo. I still don't see the traffic.
Are they on the runway or something?
I don't know. I can't,
but they're ahead of us.
Red Rock 66 traffic is, the helicopter. They'll be left of the uh, center line. The outbound
Roger Red Rock 66.
Falcon Tower, Cessna: Cessna: e down just a bit. There she [:There you go. Top it all on now.
Hold her off.
Nice. Good job. Alright, let's see if we can get off on Delta 5 up here. Got it.
Cessna:Left on Delta 5, contact ground, Red Rocks 66.
We'll be headed back this way, right?
Yep, so go ahead and just point to the left and come to a stop. Would you mind putting ground
in, please?
You bet. Alright, you're on ground.
What are we, Delta 6? Yep. Falcon Ground, Red Rock 66 is off of 22L at Delta 6. Red Rock 66 on ground, taxi to ramp via Delta, Delta 7.
.[:Alright, so we'll go past this right here, and we'll just, we'll go on the one we came out on.
Uh, over there?
Yep.
Okay.
And that's because he said 7?
Yeah, that's Delta 7 is that entrance over there. I don't know why he's having us go over there.
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so we taxi back in and parked and it turns out that last one wasn't too bad at all. I was on my way back, baby.
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ilot again, and I was really [:So I was going to start on that and I'd be starting on that right away. Soon, hopefully I'd be an instrument rated pilot. And if I kept practicing and working at it and learning, which I've been doing since then. Maybe someday I could even be the world's okayest instrument
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