captvikki
Pre-Flight
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- Aug 7, 2008
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- Sheffield MA & Sebring FL
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captvikki
Re: Where to start?/The Story
I showed up at the airport an hour early with my instructor (the examiner came to us). I did not think I was nervous, but I kept dropping things and I FORGOT ALL MY XC stuff, charts, flight log. It was all on my dining-room table at HOME! - I drove home and retrieved it just in time. When I was pulling back into the airport, the examiner was getting out of his airplane.
The oral part was fairly easy. The DFE (or DPE?) Anyway, he was very nice. It was a conversational type of exchange, it really set me at ease. We went over just about everything while talking about the X/C.
MY first take-off he asked for a short-field takeoff. After we lifted off, I noticed that I forgot to set my flaps at two notches, and thought GREAT, you failed in the first 10 min. I looked at him and asked if I could do it again. He smiled and said you don't always have to have flaps on a short field (Whew!!). We continued on....everything was ok - I could barely talk due to my dry mouth, I was sweating profusely, and kept having to wipe my hands on my pants, so they didn't slip on the yoke.
When we came back to GBR, He covered up everything except the altimeter and told me to land. Wow, that was exciting. And I did it.
Other than that, it was uneventful. I did get teary-eyed when he congratulated me on being a pilot.
I went home and took a nap. Then celebrated with my husband and friends.
EXCELLENT!!! Now we're waiting for the STORY!!
Good job!
I showed up at the airport an hour early with my instructor (the examiner came to us). I did not think I was nervous, but I kept dropping things and I FORGOT ALL MY XC stuff, charts, flight log. It was all on my dining-room table at HOME! - I drove home and retrieved it just in time. When I was pulling back into the airport, the examiner was getting out of his airplane.
The oral part was fairly easy. The DFE (or DPE?) Anyway, he was very nice. It was a conversational type of exchange, it really set me at ease. We went over just about everything while talking about the X/C.
MY first take-off he asked for a short-field takeoff. After we lifted off, I noticed that I forgot to set my flaps at two notches, and thought GREAT, you failed in the first 10 min. I looked at him and asked if I could do it again. He smiled and said you don't always have to have flaps on a short field (Whew!!). We continued on....everything was ok - I could barely talk due to my dry mouth, I was sweating profusely, and kept having to wipe my hands on my pants, so they didn't slip on the yoke.
When we came back to GBR, He covered up everything except the altimeter and told me to land. Wow, that was exciting. And I did it.
Other than that, it was uneventful. I did get teary-eyed when he congratulated me on being a pilot.
I went home and took a nap. Then celebrated with my husband and friends.
