Everyone knows it happens when you are training, weather, maintenance, busy instructors, but sometimes you just can't win.
I have a check-ride scheduled on 17 Aug and I've been sitting on 30 hours now for 2.5 weeks despite having scheduled 3-4 flights a week during that time. First it was weather, then the sole Warrior we have, which I've been flying in hit the 100hour mark, except there are two airplanes in the que already in front of it already, there goes another week. Find out 3-4 days ago that the A&P is going to have to drop the fuel tanks, so it's not going to be a quick turn. No big deal, talk with my instructor, we decide it will be easy to move over to the C172. I've flown it a couple times, once on a night cross country, once the last time the warrior was in for a 100hr. We take it up, work on stalls and maneuvers, head over to a nearby airport with a larger runway to do some landings.
The plan is the next flight to do 10 approaches at our home field so that he can endorse me for solo in the C172. We have trees at one end of our runway, so the school requirement is 5 each way to ensure you a good to fly over them safely before you get checked out in an aircraft. Anyway, next flight (this tues) is canceled for weather, and then the instructor goes on leave. So I schedule with another instructor wed. We get up, do a two patterns, then the dark clouds 10 miles away turn into an active thunderstorm, so we put it down. Yesterday, I come in to fly again, same plan, but the student before me put the nose wheel down hard, and it's collapsed. So no flight again.
Its been a rough ride, its a small school with 1 warrior, 1 C172 and a couple 150s. I'm hoping to not have to switch to a 150 to finish up a check-ride, but things are not looking promising. It would also require a change of instructor, because the two of us are both 200lbs and are overweight for one.
Things will work out, they always do, but this has been a couple weeks of the unexpected
I have a check-ride scheduled on 17 Aug and I've been sitting on 30 hours now for 2.5 weeks despite having scheduled 3-4 flights a week during that time. First it was weather, then the sole Warrior we have, which I've been flying in hit the 100hour mark, except there are two airplanes in the que already in front of it already, there goes another week. Find out 3-4 days ago that the A&P is going to have to drop the fuel tanks, so it's not going to be a quick turn. No big deal, talk with my instructor, we decide it will be easy to move over to the C172. I've flown it a couple times, once on a night cross country, once the last time the warrior was in for a 100hr. We take it up, work on stalls and maneuvers, head over to a nearby airport with a larger runway to do some landings.
The plan is the next flight to do 10 approaches at our home field so that he can endorse me for solo in the C172. We have trees at one end of our runway, so the school requirement is 5 each way to ensure you a good to fly over them safely before you get checked out in an aircraft. Anyway, next flight (this tues) is canceled for weather, and then the instructor goes on leave. So I schedule with another instructor wed. We get up, do a two patterns, then the dark clouds 10 miles away turn into an active thunderstorm, so we put it down. Yesterday, I come in to fly again, same plan, but the student before me put the nose wheel down hard, and it's collapsed. So no flight again.
Its been a rough ride, its a small school with 1 warrior, 1 C172 and a couple 150s. I'm hoping to not have to switch to a 150 to finish up a check-ride, but things are not looking promising. It would also require a change of instructor, because the two of us are both 200lbs and are overweight for one.
Things will work out, they always do, but this has been a couple weeks of the unexpected
