Aircraft: C172
Registration: C-GYWN
Dual Time: 0.9 Total: 57.2
PIC Time: 0.0 Total: 26.5
Total Time: 83.7
After a couple of sessions in the 4040 Simulator, Louis and I were ready to spend some more time getting our butts frozen off and our night dual time worked on. As mentioned previously the night rating is made up of some dual, some solo and a lot of Instrument time. of the 10 required hours IFR 5 can be simulated and 5 must be hooded. The trick here is that if you fly at night, and do hood time you cannot count both simultaneously. It’s a tricky reg and I understand the spirit of it however it can cause one to do all their hood time during the day, and never actually see how hard it is to fly by instruments that you can barely see at night! I opted to do some of my hood time at night, and then save $$ by doing as much as possible in the sim.
Louis was a great simulator instructor as he has a strong grasp of the equipment and has a small tell tale smirk that happens each time he “tries” something. On our most recent sim flight I was captain of a C182 flying an ILS into Ottawa’s runway 32 when I noticed that no matter how much throttle I gave, the aircraft would keep descending at an unholy rate. As I broke out of the cloud, I could see we were about to crash into the approach lighting. I said Louis, she won’t climb, too much drag. he asked “What could cause drag?” I offered, flaps, up, Gear? Up, what else??!! The lights loomed closer and then the simulator popped up with “you have crashed”. It was almost as exciting as the real deal. My heart pumped and Louis then showed me that I had accrued 60% icing on the airframe! I guess he clicked it on and forgot about it. I just flew the airplane. Good one!
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