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Subject: Dual Cross Country Completed
From: jbolinger@lintek.com (J L Bolinger)
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Date: 26 Oct 1998 12:54:06 -0500
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My rescheduled dual cross country went off fairly well.

It was originally scheduled for a week ago Saturday (Oct 17) but
was canceled due to my sinus problems.

This past weekend (Oct 24) the weather was perfectly clear with at least
40 miles visibility.  The flight was scheduled for 1 pm.  I would have
prefered earlier, but had other commitments in the morning.  The bright
afternoon sun made for a rather bumpy ride, but the fall colors over 
eastern Ohio where spectacular.  My wife rode in the back seat for her
 first ride with me as the pilot (in fact her first ride in a small plane).

We flew from 4I9 to PHD to MFD and back to 4I9, a distance of about 150
miles and 1.7 hours.  MFD is a class D field, so I got to do some radio
work---a lot different than buzzing around lil' ol' 4I9 where I usually
have it all to my self. They even gave me a "follow the Citation turning
final...Caution wake turbulence":-)

As usual my instructor's opinion of my performance was better than my
own (or is he just being nice?).  He did say that I have to work on my
cross wind landings, which I won't argue with, but that my radio procedures
where the best he's seen in a student.  I guess that comes from having a
 ham radio license for 30 years ;-)!!

Besides the sloppy cross wind landings, I consider my biggest goof to be
not keeping it on the correct heading.  I would be trying to correlate the
map with reality and suddenly find my self 20 or 30 degrees off course.
He didn't say much about that, however, because I noticed it and trying
to correct it.

The next big step is the night cross country, scheduled for this Friday.
It will be to a Class C field!


Jim


