I'm closing in on the end here at NAIA before I
leave hunting for a job as an instructor. I have
14 hours left before my Commercial checkride, so
I'm getting close.
At the moment I'm flying mostly the Seminole, so
that I can do my Multi checkride as soon as possible
after the Commercial checkride. To the right you'll
find a picture from a flight we had where we shut
the engine completely off while flying (full-feather
shut-down), something that belongs in our eternal
hunt for perfecting our emercency procedures. To
fly the Seminole isn't really difficult, so the
main part of the training involves practicing different
emergencies.
We're in the last part of CFI groundschool, and
we are now working on lessonplans which we need
to complete before the checkride. I'm basically
finished with them all, but are working on perfecting
them.
The weather has been pretty bad lately, so there
has been little flying for a period now. Incredibly
boring weather with loads of rain. It has given
us the opportunity to spend the time inside reading,
but there are limits to how many days in a row I
have the patience to sit down and read. A couple
of weeks ago we had an, what the Americans call,
"ice-storm". There was never any snow,
but the ice formed quite heavily on the trees and
the cars. My car was completely glazed with ice
one moring. The roads where good though, so I guess
most of the people here survived.
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Here we've shut down one engine in the air. Not
really a big problem, but the airplane really wants
to turn towards the dead engine.
Picture from the "ice-storm". The trees
here had a hard time carrying the heavy load. I
don't know if the trees here are weaker than the
Norwegian ones.
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