It was a Christmas and the weather looked bad. As my flight test is scheduled on the day after tomorrow, I went to the airport. There was no one except for my instructor, the part-time airport manager and me in the airport terminal. Fortunately the weather was getting better enough to take a flight. I did the whole review in the sky with my instructor and while we were flying there was only one radio call by another pilot from other airport. Except for that, the tower and the airport was working only for us. It was just like a private airport and we made some special request which we can't do usually because of the permanent congestion of the airport. We climbed up to 1,500 feet which is the upper limit of the control zone and 700 feet higher than the usual circuit height over the mid field of the runway. My instructor cut the throttle and I glided down to land without power. This is called PFL, practice forced landing. The wind was strong and gusting, but I did this practice five times all successfully, which boosted my confidence.
Good luck on your flight test!
Posted by: Joolie | December 27, 2005 at 10:40 AM
> Joolie
Thanks for your comment. I'm sorry I couldn't take the flight test today because of the weather. It was postponed to the day after tomorrow. It's a little bit hard to keep my concentration for the test.
Posted by: mochi | December 29, 2005 at 04:34 AM