| Lesson 24 | |
| Flight time logged: | 1.4 hours |
| Total flight time logged: | 42.5 hours |
| Total takeoffs/landings: | 139 |
| Solo time: | 0.0 hours |
| Total time solo: | 9.4 hours |
| Total cost to date: | $6740 |
It has been over a month since I've flown. I've been busy with work, not to mention waiting on the weather to be nice enough to fly at night. I'm working on my night flying hours now. Tonight's flight was a short flight over to PDK (Peachtree-DeKalb).
Flying at night is great! The air is so smooth and the scenery is spectacular. I could see the Atlanta skyline as it lit up the horizon. I was really excited flying over to PDK - the second busiest airport in Georgia.
While at PDK I performed a few touch and goes and full stop landings. I have to have 10 landings at night as required by regulations. For tonight, I would do 8 landings and save the remaining two for my night cross country flight. I did four landings at PDK then headed back to LZU to do four more.
At LZU, my instructor made me land without outside lights (no landing or taxi light). That was an interesting experience. I had to use the runway lights as a reference for how close I was to the runway. On my next time around, my instructor pulled the power for a simulated emergency landing. I glided all the way from downwind around the base leg, to final, and then landed. On my third time around, my instructor turned off all of the interior lights and had me fly without lights inside and out. I had to use my flashlight to view the instruments. My fourth landing I was able to do a normal night landing.
My next night flight will be a cross country to Washington-Wilkes (IIY). I can't wait to go!
