Today was a beautiful sunny and cool day... except, of course for wind gusts of 18knots.
The short of it is... we did the pre-flight and start-up procedures, rolled the engine up to 100%, did our final check for weather and found out that there was too much wind. Actually, Kristie thought that it would have just been a waste of time to try to learn hover control in such a wind. Why waste the money and time for her to have to keep me from floating off into the breeze.
I agreed.
We scrapped it and powered down.
1 comment:
She's right -- you wouldn't have learned anything trying to hover in that. But it illustrates the one weakness of part 141 training (the requirement to stick to the syllabus). It would have been a perfect occasion to practice wind correction.
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