Good Lesson Today
Today the weather was not too great, but passable enough to fly. Here's the METAR (Meteorological Aviation Report) data for 2pm today
METAR KTKI 272053Z 11009G15KT 10SM OVC015 04/01 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP130 T00390006 56026Translated, that's winds out of the southeast at 9 knots with gusts to 15 knots, overcast with a ceiling of 1500 ft AGL, visibility was 10 miles. The minimums for VFR are greater than 5 miles of visibility and ceiling of 3000 ft. But this weather was good for MVFR. Which means we could fly as long as we remained below the clouds. That was no problem because the pattern is at 1000 ft AGL and all we were doing was landings.
Overall, I did well today. Most of my landings are what I would consider "passable". As I get more practice, things are becoming more instinctive, for example, I have a much better sense of how close the ground is when I'm close to touching down than I did before, such that even when I don't land quite right, I'm not landing on the runway as hard. More and more of my landings are falling into the "good" category. One or two landings might have even been "excellent".
Next lesson: Sunday, December 30.
Time logged this lesson: 1.3 hrs
Total Time: 8.8 hrs
