[ready2fly]

Day 25

Got a new Master today. Most of the guys will work with more than one instructor through sim training...so, my new guy started today. All I can say is WHEW! Thang GOD for this guy!! He's extremely laid back. Nowhere NEAR the type A+++ instructor I had last week. I actually could sit and LEARN things from this guy. He'd give me time to ask questions - and more importantly - he'd LISTEN and aswer JUST that question - and not try to impress me with how much he knows.

The lesson, overall, went very well. Still working on not over-controlling the trust levers for power settings, but it's coming.

Today's lesson took off from PSP (Palm Springs) and was filed to LAX, where we shot the ILS to 25L, went missed, out to the Seal Beach VOR to hold, then divert into SNA (Santa Ana/John Wayne Airport).

When we took off from PSP, he purposely vectored me towards the mountains so that we'd get an EGPWS warning "Whoop, Whoop! Pull up! Pull up!". Had to disconnect the autopilot, set max thrust, and pitch up to 20 degrees.

Cleared the mountains, then off to LAX. ILS went well. Had a couple of small failures thrown at me where he took the plane and let me work through the checklist.

Failures we worked on today were:
Landing Gear Disagree (both with the gear up and down = two totally different actions)
Main Landing Gear Overheat
And a couple of others...

Did the LDA into SNA. That went okay. Still got squirrely on the landing, so after we finished, he repositioned the plane on about a 7 mile final and let me shoot visual after visual until I and he felt comfortable. Took two more landings to quit overcorrecting.

I'm really going to like working with this new Master!! I have him today through Tuesday, then back to the Old Mater for Wednesday, then finish up with the new guy.

More later!

R2F