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Circuits Beautiful crisp clear day with light winds. Super busy at flying club today. Every man and his dog up but flew pretty good. FI… Read More »Blog – Circuits 13/03/2021

Circuits 12kt north easterly today so had to do some work to align the aircraft with the centreline. More good circuit work too. Great downwind… Read More »Blog – Circuits 21/02/2021

Circuits & Repositioning Started off dead calm so RWY16@NZPP was the active runway. 4 circuits then a 10kt northwester came up so had instant lesson… Read More »Blog – Circuits and Repositioning 13/02/2021

Circuits & Flapless Landings Beautiful day in Kapiti today with 8kt northwester. Good effort and results today. Landings almost all on the centreline and when… Read More »Blog – Circuits and Flapless Landings 06/02/2021

Circuits & Glide Approaches Windy 15kt day. Better overall but levelling off is bad FFS APT. (ATTITUDE, wait for 110kts approx, set 2300rpm POWER, TRIM).… Read More »Blog – Circuits and Glide Approaches 21/01/2021

Glide Approaches II Quite windy today but much better with power and height on the downwind. Still having issues with staying on centreline and being… Read More »Blog – Glide Approaches II 17/01/2021

Glide Approaches Overcast with 10kt northerly. Good work on the new stuff today. Better overall flying but my S&L work is still not the best.… Read More »Blog – Glide Approaches 10/01/2021

Circuit Considerations Circuits with abort, orbit and extended legs training. Worked with the CFI. Beautiful day in NZ today. Wind about 10kts. Some wonky landings,… Read More »Blog – Circuit Considerations 01/01/2021

Circuits & 1 x Engine Failure After Take-Off (EFATO) Exercise EFATO. Easier than I thought. However most other tasks went to hell in a hand… Read More »Blog – Circuits and EFATO 08/01/2021

Circuits 2 Very busy circuit today plus an outgoing commercial flight so had a crash course in repositioning and orbits. Got in five touch and… Read More »Blog – Circuits 20/12/2020