Today winds were gusty out of the west and Pontiac's Runway 27L was closed again.
I complete the preflight and then Ray comes over and says that the checkride examiner seems having applicants navigate to Troy and says we'll go there today.
So I get taxi and takeoff clearance and we head to Troy, passing over Orchard Lake on the way.
I find the airport ok and checking the AWOS to confirm the wind is from the west as well go for Runway 27 at Troy in a rather shifting wind. So I do a short field landing and then taxi and we do it again and again, coming over the building and thinking I'm going to land on the building, but I do some pretty decent short fields and short field takeoffs on each time. The winds would shift from left to right and gust a bit on each landing and it made the short final approaches kinda interesting.
Then we navigated north to the practice area and I did some steep turns and turns around the point and it went ok and the steep turns were within tolerances.
After that I navigated back to Pontiac by dead reckoning called in and got a landing clearance to come in on a right base and landed on Runway 27R and that was the lesson.
1.7 and 4 landings.
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