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sdfcvoh · November 17th, 2007, 13:56

Day 4
Instrument

Ah, the weekend. Although the last few days have been awesome/back into the swing of "real" training, I'm ready for a break today. These nights are killin' me!

Last night was much like the first three, starting off with ground. Once ground finished, we headed out for another x-country, this time to Prescott. Our filed altitude was FL100, but we got assigned FL120 after a little while. After about 1hr 30min at FL120, both of us were starting to feel the altitude. (No comments from peanut gallery, please

.) I finally called center up and asked for lower. Unfortunately they couldn't give it to us. After another 15 minutes, I called back and told the guy that we'd really like to drop down to FL100, since my instructor's jokes were actually starting to get funny. I think he got it, b/c he was laughing so hard he could barely give us the new altitude. That was funny.

I don't know if its normal, but we got dumped onto the PRC approach way too high. I cut the power and slipped her down, and somehow got onto GS. After a quick stop, we headed back south over PHX to RYN for another ILS, and called it a night.

Thanks for reading!

November 17th, 2007, 13:56	#91
sdfcvoh Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: That one Posts: 877	Re: SDFCVOH's Flight training thread. Day 4 Instrument Ah, the weekend. Although the last few days have been awesome/back into the swing of "real" training, I'm ready for a break today. These nights are killin' me! Last night was much like the first three, starting off with ground. Once ground finished, we headed out for another x-country, this time to Prescott. Our filed altitude was FL100, but we got assigned FL120 after a little while. After about 1hr 30min at FL120, both of us were starting to feel the altitude. (No comments from peanut gallery, please.) I finally called center up and asked for lower. Unfortunately they couldn't give it to us. After another 15 minutes, I called back and told the guy that we'd really like to drop down to FL100, since my instructor's jokes were actually starting to get funny. I think he got it, b/c he was laughing so hard he could barely give us the new altitude. That was funny. I don't know if its normal, but we got dumped onto the PRC approach way too high. I cut the power and slipped her down, and somehow got onto GS. After a quick stop, we headed back south over PHX to RYN for another ILS, and called it a night. Thanks for reading! __________________ I want to die like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.