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Hi Karl-I could help with the flight portion of your renewal tomorrow but need to leave by 3. Should give us enough time-Tim
If I don’t hear a yea or nay from anyone by noon I’m going to head into the lab and throw a reaction on. Making some radiolabelled strychnine and two chemotherapy drugs today. No free samples 🙂
Cheers
Tim
Do we have anyone available to tow for today?
For all who intend to do your spring checkout with me, I wanted to offer some information that I hope will demystify the process and make you aware of an objective standard. I’m writing this out to keep myself organized and efficient tomorrow as much as anything else. I want to review the following tasks with each of you:
Preflight Inspection
Before Takeoff Check
Normal and Crosswind Takeoff
Maintaining Tow Positions
Slack Line
Boxing the Wake
Tow Release
Abnormal Occurrences
Steep Turns
Forward Slips and Sideslips
Stall Recognition and Recovery
Normal and Crosswind Landings
You’ll find these tasks in the Practical Test Standards of the rating appropriate to your experience level. You need not perform these tasks to PTS standards but I do want to spend some time briefing on what those standards are. The learning objective is that during the debrief you would be able to self-evaluate whether your performance met the practical test standards or not so much.
Expect the checkout to consist of 3 flights, 2×2000’ tows and 1 flight involving a simulated Premature Termination of the Tow.
Cheers
Tim
Here are the forecast winds today
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Pattern altitude winds aloft are predicted to be same direction at 30 gusting to 40.AIRMET for low level wind shear to the Northwest.
You fellas could be in for quite a ride.
So the research chimp I mail ordered from NASA arrived in time to act as PIC for the test flights? Sweeeeeet 🙂
I can come out and give some instruction Thursday. Would like to give a friend a ride or two and happy to stick around for the day
No interest for tomorrow? If no response by midnight I’ll go back to lab work and we’ll try for another day
-Tim
