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Nov. 14th, 2019 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynFlight school tonight. Before I can go for my checkride I need ten takeoffs and ten landings at night, which in this case is legally defined as ten takeoffs and ten landings that all take place at least one hour after the end of evening civil twilight but before the beginning of morning civil twilight. I also need at least three hours of night flying, and at least an hour of cross country night flying and a cross country flight of at least one hundred nautical miles of which one leg must be fifty nautical miles or longer, with said hundred mile flight including landings at three different airports or heliports. So far I've got-
(takeoff from KLWM) - T1
(landing 1 at KPSM)- L1
(takeoff 1 from KPSM) - T2
(landing 2 at KPSM) - L2
(takeoff 2 from KPSM) - T3
(landing at KLWM) - L3
time spent flying after dark: 1.2 hrs
cross country distance at night: 50.8 nm
(takeoff from KLWM) - T4
(landing at KORE) - L4
(takeoff from KORE) - T5
(landing at KFIT) - L5
(takeoff from KFIT) - T6
(landing at KLWM) - L6
time spent flying at night: 2.1 hrs
cross country distance at night (approximate due to course being defined by highways rather than straightest available route): 108 nm
total time spent flying at night: 3.3 hrs
total cross country distance at night: 158.8 nm
- So tonight is going to be spent flying laps around Lawrence Airport and getting my last four takeoffs and landings. After that it's... time to study like hell for the written because my instructor says there's no point to going for the checkride if you can't pass the written first.
Meanwhile, haven't finished reading Lawrence Gonzalez's book Flight 232 yet, but I should fairly soon. I'm past the actual crash and at this point it's about the first day or two of survivors and investigators. It's interesting stuff. I think I may need to get a copy of Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow after this- actually I meant to read that last year but they didn't have it available for my trip to my parents' for the holidays...
... I should see if Eric Moody ever wrote a book. (Not the baseball player. Eric Moody was captain of British Airways 009, also known as Speedbird 9 and the Jakarta Incident flight. Long story short, a 747 flew through a cloud of volcanic ash and all four engines died. Moody and his copilot brought the aircraft back to land safely despite this. Moody also delivered the greatest masterpiece of British understatement and pilot sangfroid I have ever read: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.")
(takeoff from KLWM) - T1
(landing 1 at KPSM)- L1
(takeoff 1 from KPSM) - T2
(landing 2 at KPSM) - L2
(takeoff 2 from KPSM) - T3
(landing at KLWM) - L3
time spent flying after dark: 1.2 hrs
cross country distance at night: 50.8 nm
(takeoff from KLWM) - T4
(landing at KORE) - L4
(takeoff from KORE) - T5
(landing at KFIT) - L5
(takeoff from KFIT) - T6
(landing at KLWM) - L6
time spent flying at night: 2.1 hrs
cross country distance at night (approximate due to course being defined by highways rather than straightest available route): 108 nm
total time spent flying at night: 3.3 hrs
total cross country distance at night: 158.8 nm
- So tonight is going to be spent flying laps around Lawrence Airport and getting my last four takeoffs and landings. After that it's... time to study like hell for the written because my instructor says there's no point to going for the checkride if you can't pass the written first.
Meanwhile, haven't finished reading Lawrence Gonzalez's book Flight 232 yet, but I should fairly soon. I'm past the actual crash and at this point it's about the first day or two of survivors and investigators. It's interesting stuff. I think I may need to get a copy of Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow after this- actually I meant to read that last year but they didn't have it available for my trip to my parents' for the holidays...
... I should see if Eric Moody ever wrote a book. (Not the baseball player. Eric Moody was captain of British Airways 009, also known as Speedbird 9 and the Jakarta Incident flight. Long story short, a 747 flew through a cloud of volcanic ash and all four engines died. Moody and his copilot brought the aircraft back to land safely despite this. Moody also delivered the greatest masterpiece of British understatement and pilot sangfroid I have ever read: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.")
