Friday, November 14, 2008

Another Week of Flying

This week I continued with the systems gound brief and made one training flight in the 172RG. The ground brief was a continuation of systems and the flight mostly consisted of chandelles and lazy eights. Did a few steep turns, but they weren't going that well so we moved on to other manuevers. Also had the emergency simulation of all simulations. We started with a simulated engine fire and after the simulated fire was out there was a simulated electrical failure. This involved a manual gear extension at about 3000' while trying to select a good field to land in. Surprisingly I knew most of the emergency items from memory and used the checklists to hit the items that I couldn't remember. I did miss turning the master off step after an engine fire, so I think I'll memorize all of the emergency procedures so that this excercise goes a little smoother the next time.

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