To get a night rating, I was supposed to do instrument training last night, but it was so clear that my instructor changed the plan and we did a night cross-country flight. We took off around 10:00PM after I made a navigation log in a hurry and filed a flight plan with the flight service by telephone. The course was CZBB(Boundary Bay) - CYYJ(Victoria) - CYCD(Nanaimo) - CAP3(Seschelt Gibson) - CZBB(Boundary Bay). It was just a two hour flight with four touch-and-goes. Different from the bright night two days before, the moon was still behind the horizon and it was harder for me to see every thing. It was a little bit scary to do touch-and-goes at CYCD and CAP3, because both the airport lie close to mountains and those mountains looked like a black hole at night. I hear that some airplanes crashed there at night years ago. On the way back to CZBB, we flew over Greater Vancouver which looked like scattered jewels around the moon.
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