Last night was beautiful out with winds beginning to calm, and many a firework being lofted into the air.
A perfect opportunity for finally regaining night flying currency.
So I headed to the airport and did a pre-flight during twilight and then once it was full on dark an hour after sunset I took off into the night sky.
A few planes were in the area watching the fireworks.
I started on 27R and did three decent landings. Then a seaplane came in to land and another plane wanted to be in the airspace to the north to watch the fireworks so the Tower had me do left traffic on 27R which is pretty rare, as that puts you right into 27L's corridor. But, with no one else flying it was available. so I got to do a left pattern on 27R which felt really backwards, and a great landing.
Then I took off from 27R again with a left pattern and tower asked if I'd like to land on 27L and I said sure that would be fun.
So I did, and my first approach to 27L just didn't feel or look right at all, so I did a go around. I then did it again and did a good landing.
For the final landing I took off from 27L and did a left pattern for 27L and then landed 27R. I then headed back to the hangar and shut down.
That's 1.0 and 7 night time, full-stop, landings.
Night currency for carrying passengers is now again achieved, after a very long absence.
Also, this flight marks my getting over 500 flying hours of experience. That hour flying last night got me to 500.4 hours total, which is a nice milestone.
2 comments:
500 hours is a lot, really
I only know about flying from the reading that I have done over the years, but I am always grateful for the posts that you make about your time spent in the air. It is interesting and helps me learn a bit more every time.
And thank you for all of your posts, they are insightful, interesting, and show a fantastic ability to relate the things that you think in an understandable way that all can follow. Have a great summer, and I hope you get more time to fly, just for the fun of it.
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