00:18 – JES is requesting that you get that Porter out of my way
before you let me go anywhere
00:50 – OK lets go, please don’t run over me Mr. Porter, sir
00:59 – Giving way, with pleasure!
01:18 Cool, he’s waving at
me!
04:33 – Ok corner, I don’t like you and you don’t like me. Let’s
see if I can get somewhere close to where I’m meant to stick this thing
04:55 – I’m not convinced I haven’t taken a little off tarmac jaunt
here, Oh Crap! Hello Mr. other Porter. Did anyone order a WMAP sandwich?
05:16 – looking back I’m
particularly proud (NOT!) of the barely concealed level of rising panic in my
voice here
06:10 – no way out now, let’s do this thing
06:16 – ready may not be the right word here
06:44 – Full throttle and away she goes
07:13 – that seemingly
unproved display of profanity is purely due to the fact that I realise I’ve
reached the point of no return; the only way out now is to land this thing.
Eek!
07:38 – Fairly certain that instruction was meant for me, but I’m
just going to be very quiet.
07:40 – yep I was right
09:48 – Ok let’s turn behind the traffic I was following , set up
for a nice base turn. ATC is busy can’t get my call in
10:03 – I can’t continue in a downwind that I’m not in. I’m on base
whatcha want me to do?
10:10 – OK new one on me, I guess I’m heading back downwind then. For some reason I decide to bring the flaps
back up and set cruise power again. This probably takes me a little too far
downwind. To compensate for being out over the water I climb a little
11:00 – Finally, set up for approach and landing
11:30 – I’m not sure I’ve ever been on a 2.5 mile final before.
This is going to be a long one
12:20 – That’s ok. I know what to do here. I want to land so I’ll
request a stop and go. Only fair to mention that I’ll need the backtrack as
well.
12:30 – Ok, no big deal.
Looking back I should have realised that there was traffic behind me and
requested the full field circuit. At this moment I have enough situational
awareness to understand what is going on in front of me but not behind. That’ll
come in time
13:15 – what I really mean is why is this taking so long? I have failed to account for the fact that
my groundspeed is considerably reduced by the strong headwind. It is taking
forever to get anywhere. I could have carried just a little more speed on the
long final and then retrimmed at my “normal” final turn point.
14:33 – Did I do something wrong here? He sounds a bit p!ssed off.
No time to think, make the turn and set back up again
15:20 – Ok there’s some funky stuff going on here, I think I’m going
to be ahead of UOB. I’ll just carry on this heading at the moment but he’ll
probably get me to join an extended downwind
15:29 – hello? I hope he remembers I’m here I do not want a trip
out over the lake.
15:45 – thank you!
16:38 – please let me land this time
17:08 – Its 10:50. I only have the plane until 11:00. Time to get
this girl on the ground
18:08 YAY!!!
18:33 – Find that centre line
19:40 – Actually that wasn’t too bad. Massive sigh of relief
19:46 – Don’t exit onto 33 if he doesn’t tell you. At this point I realise
he’s busy with other radio traffic so I’ll be exiting at Foxtrot.
20:00 – And off I go, slow her down a bit, no high speed cornering!
20:15 DO NOT take it on the grass!
20:44 – I think I say all that needs to be said on the video. I
leaned back the mixture a little too much. The engine quit on me
20:47 – Stupid, stupid, stupid! What are you going to do?
20:48 – Ok quick start procedure; ICO, throttle set 1/16th
inch , mags to “start”, advance mixture
20:57 – THANK YOU!!!
21:11 – I wanna come home now
22:00 – Do not hit anything
22:15 – Normally I’d stick it right outside that hanger, what to
do?
22:22 – Ah big shiny arrow painted on ground, that’ll do.
22:56 – that sweet sound of nothing as the engine is shut down. I’m
done and we both survived!
Just watched your trip. My notes:
ReplyDeleteGood pretakeoff checks
Good comms - you sound very assured (even if you don't feel it)
That airspace is far busier than where I fly. I would struggle to maintain situational awareness (and sanity) if I was to take the same trip.
Nice landing! Don't stress about the centre line, it will come eventually.
As for your struggle with the long final, have you done straight in approaches yet? They are a different beast with quite different problems to consider as opposed to the usual circuit.
Thanks for the kind words!
DeleteTakeoff checks are fine, I just feel a little rushed sometimes when I'm sandwiched between the commercial traffic like that!
Comms - I'm much happier with this now. I think the trick is to sound 100% like you know what you are doing even if you don't. And if you don't know what you are meant to be doing then it is ATCs fault for not being clearer!
Busy airspace - yup , it gets stupid out there, my situational awareness is improving but as evidenced in the video I can keep track of what is going on in front of me but I forget about the guys behind.
I was quite pleased with the landing. Bob and I have really been working on them
I've done straight in approaches before , usually on 26 when we return from the practice area. I always struggle with them , I either loose too much height or not enough. This time my approach angle was fine but I trimmed for approach spped waaaay too soon.
I was obsessed with hitting that magic 65, any higher and thats when captain kangaroo comes to visit!