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sdfcvoh · November 26th, 2007, 21:52

wow - Time flies when you've got a cold! The last week I've been battling a cold, combined with doing nights for instrument. And - this little bit of the fact that my wife and I bought a house in Tucson and have been moving in ... whew! Just a slightly overwhelming week.

My CFI and I have both been trying to adjust to the night schedule. The school does routinely schedule IFR training courses at night, and unfortunately b/c of all the extras in my life right now, the last week has been a bear! But so much for the complaining - I'm flying! So who cares!

Instrument training has been going very well. We've been doing long cross-country's about every night. During the day I've been spending time seeing just how much stuff I've already forgotten from the PPL taking Sporty's online FAA tests. jeez. I swear some of those questions are worded by people who wouldn't even know how to shake your hand if they ever were forced to have human contact ... what's the deal with that?!

I'm constantly amazed at how "easy" it is to fly an instrument flight plan. I somehow thought that this would get harder, when in actuality it is a ton easier filing an IFR than just calling up for flight following doing VFR x-country's.

Approaches are going very smoothly. The biggest hurdle I've run into is just me simply trying to over-complicate plates. Just my nature I guess. I'm not a huge fan of trying to figure out some of the NDB vectors at 3am when I can't focus on my name, but at least I'm not falling asleep with the AP on heading overtop of Denver

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Last night we flew into SAN from RYN. Its the first time I've been into traffic quite that busy - or at least the first time I've been in the lineup with that much volume. I loved getting all the descend to and vectors. Everything went smoothly until tower sent us on short final just about right up the a$$ end of a 737 that was taking off. So much for tower spacing for wake turbulence! I landed long to avoid the inevitable, but not before tower called up and reminded me that we were cleared to land - I politely told him that we were landing long to avoid WT. Not much else we could do. I figured on the turnaround after fueling that he'd have me sitting for an hour, but I guess it wasn't a big deal, as we got out of there pretty expeditiously. It was very cool sitting in line waiting to take off with CRJ's, 737's, etc., on every side of us.

Depending on when I get in to take my written, I'll probably do the oral and checkride either at the end of this week or beginning of next.

Thanks for reading!

November 26th, 2007, 21:52	#95
sdfcvoh Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: That one Posts: 872	Re: SDFCVOH's Flight training thread. wow - Time flies when you've got a cold! The last week I've been battling a cold, combined with doing nights for instrument. And - this little bit of the fact that my wife and I bought a house in Tucson and have been moving in ... whew! Just a slightly overwhelming week. My CFI and I have both been trying to adjust to the night schedule. The school does routinely schedule IFR training courses at night, and unfortunately b/c of all the extras in my life right now, the last week has been a bear! But so much for the complaining - I'm flying! So who cares! Instrument training has been going very well. We've been doing long cross-country's about every night. During the day I've been spending time seeing just how much stuff I've already forgotten from the PPL taking Sporty's online FAA tests. jeez. I swear some of those questions are worded by people who wouldn't even know how to shake your hand if they ever were forced to have human contact ... what's the deal with that?! I'm constantly amazed at how "easy" it is to fly an instrument flight plan. I somehow thought that this would get harder, when in actuality it is a ton easier filing an IFR than just calling up for flight following doing VFR x-country's. Approaches are going very smoothly. The biggest hurdle I've run into is just me simply trying to over-complicate plates. Just my nature I guess. I'm not a huge fan of trying to figure out some of the NDB vectors at 3am when I can't focus on my name, but at least I'm not falling asleep with the AP on heading overtop of Denver. Last night we flew into SAN from RYN. Its the first time I've been into traffic quite that busy - or at least the first time I've been in the lineup with that much volume. I loved getting all the descend to and vectors. Everything went smoothly until tower sent us on short final just about right up the a$$ end of a 737 that was taking off. So much for tower spacing for wake turbulence! I landed long to avoid the inevitable, but not before tower called up and reminded me that we were cleared to land - I politely told him that we were landing long to avoid WT. Not much else we could do. I figured on the turnaround after fueling that he'd have me sitting for an hour, but I guess it wasn't a big deal, as we got out of there pretty expeditiously. It was very cool sitting in line waiting to take off with CRJ's, 737's, etc., on every side of us. Depending on when I get in to take my written, I'll probably do the oral and checkride either at the end of this week or beginning of next. Thanks for reading! __________________ I want to die like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.