The 10th Hour!

December 13th,

                       And after 9 days of flying (not consecutively), I finally collected my 10th hour of flying! Weather was crystal clear, horizon was visible. The ideal weather for aviators is finally back! Hopefully for sometime. Here's how it looked like.

 
Not everytime we'll get this kind of scenery at our hangar.

                       And so , for today's exercise me and Captain Chiam flew our 2nd circuit. Not easy, but not difficult too. With just the right amount of mental flying and being prepared for the flight will get you off to a good start. Here's the usual things we do before take off.

Going through checks on engine instruments.

Continuing on with reference pages.

And off we go taxi-ing to holding point Bravo. Here in this picture we're on taxiway Echo.
I can't help but say I am quite proud of being able to keep the the yellow line (centreline) in the middle of the plane. Think I finally am prepared to taxi the aircraft comfortably on ground already.

Lining up on Runway 10. Getting clearance for take-off. 

After take off checks, Landing and Taxi lights off,flaps retract check speed change to 80 knots (160km/h).

And here we are at crosswind. Picture deliberately enlarged to show the runway.

At late downwind carrying out the 3 wing chord check ( checking the spacing of our aircraft before commencing our descending turn. )

And here we are at base leg.

           And after the base leg, we continue with our final approach. 

           Apologies for not being able to show my landing and final approach picture. My cameraman sort of forgotten to take pictures of it because he was too 'excited' to see my final approach and landing technique!

And so we continued with 5 more touch and go's ( landing and immediately after that taking off). Capt. Chiam demonstrated a Flapless Circuit. Which means no flaps required during approach, meaning to say a higher landing speed. Simple. Throughout the exercise today, i felt more comfortable with the aircraft, and i hope from today's flight, my chemistry with the Diamond aircraft will grow and throughout the lesson today will my techniques be perfected.


To be continued...