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Can I learn to fly in a computer simulation?
Night Flight at ORH (1.0 hours dual, June 5, 2000) Follow Chino on a night flying lesson. Note: Screen shots are from FLY! with the scenery for the Worcester, Massachusetts area generated using TerraScene. One good flight deserves another, right? Well, the next couple of weeks will be busy, so I decided to take another lesson yesterday -- nothing for 10 months then two in two days! We got a late start on the scheduled 7:00 pm lesson (the plane was late from its previous lesson) and decided to stay in the ORH pattern (landing runway 11 this time, vs. 29 yesterday). This means we were landing a little south of east, 110º -- there was a crosswind from the north, so I had to crab to the right on the downwind, angling slightly north of the nominal 290º downwind heading to keep from toeing in and crowding the runway on downwind (something I tend to do anyway). It also increased my ground speed on base (tail wind) which contributed to my late turn to final (something I also tend to do anyway!). |
Climb I was so wide on the first one that I did a go-around. I tried to parallel the runway as if it were an "upwind leg" but Mario told me I should be right over the runway for a go-around, so I flew over there - need to ask him about this. Good thing there was no other traffic there last night! |
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