Headed out the door this morning, and noticed the gloomy clouds and wet pavement. I pray the clouds move on. Once getting to the airport, I set out accumulating and becoming familiar with all the information available! per the FARs . Next preflight the plane, got the tanks topped off, set to setting up the instruments, then was rudely told the plane had been double booked, and I lost.SH*& now I need to go find a plane and get it preflighted in the next 2mins before my instructor shows up.
Soon an alternate plane was found, and we were headed to 28R. Thankful, I hadn't forgot everything from yesterday and we were headed out to the SE training area. Once out there I was tortured with my lack of knowledge on power on stalls, etc. I did manage to pull off a couple steep turns within parameters as well as a couple power off stalls. Soon we headed back to Montgomery. I was happy; I found my check points and soon checked in with tower for landing approval. I focusing on the approach, on airspeed, on altitude.. sweet this is looking good. With approval to land on 28R, I'm not super happy but I glide the girl down to asphalt. Not too bad for my second landing in a year. As I taxi onto taxiway D, my instructor looks at me and asks how my landing checklist looks.. Opps, oh well who needs checklists.
The debrief went well, he remind me I've been flying the plane without his help, after a year break so I take his koodoos and note my weaker areas.
This evening was spend memorizing various Vspeeds, and an hour and half on Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Gold Edition, flying the traffic pattern for Montgomery (KMYF) brushing up for tomorrows flight.
Enough for now.. time for some rest!
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