BrianNC
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So I got my commercial!
Passed the commercial checkride yesterday. Actually it was a do-over from last week where I messed up on my landings. Did the cross country portion, hit my checkpoints, then did the deviation. When we got to the airport the first landing was the power off 180. I had it nailed and just right before touchdown I jerked the yoke or something and hit down just shy of my touchdown point. After that the landings went comedically down hill. It reminded me of @denverpilot on his commercial check right, it was like I forgot how land all of a sudden. I got really frazzled. He even asked, 'have you had enough?' and I said nope, lets finish. So I passed all the rest of the checkride except for the steep turns. I NEVER mess up on steep turns, but somehow let the one to the right get away from me.
So I went back yesterday to do the TOs and landing again and the steep turns. All was fine. I took it out of PDK and went to FTY to do the landings. Anyway, I sure and glad I don't have to study for that one any more.
If any of you remember my story from other threads, hadn't flown for 11 years until July '17 last year. Did a flight review and got back in the saddle. Did a little training after that, but then joined a flying club last march and flown over 60 hours since then. Nothing better for your confidence than just flying a LOT.
Anyway, glad to be back in full swing. On to an IPC and multi commercial add on.
Passed the commercial checkride yesterday. Actually it was a do-over from last week where I messed up on my landings. Did the cross country portion, hit my checkpoints, then did the deviation. When we got to the airport the first landing was the power off 180. I had it nailed and just right before touchdown I jerked the yoke or something and hit down just shy of my touchdown point. After that the landings went comedically down hill. It reminded me of @denverpilot on his commercial check right, it was like I forgot how land all of a sudden. I got really frazzled. He even asked, 'have you had enough?' and I said nope, lets finish. So I passed all the rest of the checkride except for the steep turns. I NEVER mess up on steep turns, but somehow let the one to the right get away from me.
So I went back yesterday to do the TOs and landing again and the steep turns. All was fine. I took it out of PDK and went to FTY to do the landings. Anyway, I sure and glad I don't have to study for that one any more.
If any of you remember my story from other threads, hadn't flown for 11 years until July '17 last year. Did a flight review and got back in the saddle. Did a little training after that, but then joined a flying club last march and flown over 60 hours since then. Nothing better for your confidence than just flying a LOT.
Anyway, glad to be back in full swing. On to an IPC and multi commercial add on.