My first aviation milestone! I passed 100 hrs total flight time this week! Finished the instrument ground school today, so now I will have more time to fly. This week I have been averaging three flight hours a day, so moving through this instrument training pretty quick. Did my first ILS approach, DME arcs, and holds. Passed my instrument stage one check as well, which was fairly simple, VOR, NDB, and localizer intercepts, and all the basic maneuvers, except everything is done under the hood of course. Next week will be a lot slower since a lot of instructors are leaving town for thanksgiving. That's actually a good break for me, I need the time to prepare for my instrument FAA written test.
And now for the usual incident report. Only one this week! During a night flight, had some weird gear issues (didn't want to come up, then only two out of the three would lock down), finally we just did a manual gear extension and got the "three in the green". Didn't want to risk it, so we flew with the gear down all the way back to the airport. I'm starting to get used to these planes, so whenever something goes wrong I now know how to calmly look at the problem and follow procedures instead of being emotional. So in a weird way, flying 35 year old planes will make you a better pilot then a new one!
:)
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