Aircraft: C172
Registration: C-GYWN
Dual Time: 0.4 Total: 42.8
Solo Time: 0.0 Total: 13.1
After my last attempt to fly, today was supposed to be simple. It was my back to basics flight. I simply wanted to tear around the circuit a few times and just FLY. Unfortunately this was not to be my day. Winds were moderate and directly down the runway making for what should be decent flying conditions. No clouds to mess with and I was booked to do them solo.
As I pre-flighted everything looked great. YWN is a fine bird and she’s in good shape so there was little for me to squawk about. I went inside to wash my hands and on my way back to the aircraft passed Steven Hyde. I asked him if he was busy and if he wouldn’t mind coming up “for a couple”. He said no problem and off we went.
Take off, lousy. Aircraft control, you COULD call it that… My pattern was messy and I was behind the aircraft all the way down. My landing was short, but bounced and I was very unhappy. I was chastising myself as we taxied up for the next round when Steven simply stated the obvious “You seem a bit tense Michael“.
Second pattern was a soft field take off to short landing. The take off was soft, the landing was hard! As I taxied back Steven asked me if I had something on my mind. ”I have my written to write in about 35 minutes.” He then realized that I might be under pressure from that. (It was really just pressure left over from my last flights. arrgh!)
Falling off that horse….
We put the aircraft away and canned my solo as I was unable to pass the IM SAFE check.