Hello à tous !
Il fait beau, et c'est tant mieux ! Beaucoup de vols cette semaine, en effet, j'ai quasiment volé autant de fois en 1 semaine qu'en 1 mois et demi... Les sensations reviennent, les automatismes avec !
Malgré une annulation cette semaine, en cause le brouillard qui est assez fréquent le matin sur Hamilton, le reste de mes vols n'ont pas été annulé. J'ai donc volé deux fois le même jour, mardi matin, avec pour la première fois la visite d'un autre terrain, Mata mata.
La leçon 5, "Climb and descending 2", a commencé comme d'habitude par quelques révisions, puis nous sommes ensuite allé à Mata mata, pour y faire cette leçon, qui a pour but de savoir déterminer l'Aiming point, c'est à dire le point où le toucher aura lieu. Mon instructeur m'a donc montré la méthode, puis c'était à mon tour, cette leçon est aussi un avant goût des circuits (ou Tour de piste), puisque c'est ce que nous avons fait 4 fois de suites après. J'ai donc pour la première fois réellement posé ce DA20 moi même, et j'étais plutôt content de moi pour le coup ! Il faut bien sûr prendre rapidement ses repères, car les leçons sont courtes, mais dans l'ensemble tout s'est très bien passé.
Nous avons ensuite fait un complet, un break de 10 min à Mata mata (photo en dessous de l'article anglais), puis nous avons enchaîné sur le vol 6, qui est la première leçon sur les décrochages, en configuration normal (sans volet). Toujours impressionnant à effectuer, bien que le plus impressionnant pour moi fût que cet avion, ne décroche quasiment pas ! J'étais habitué au Robin HR200, à Lille, à des décrochages un peu plus agressif, là pour le coup il faut vraiment forcer pour décrocher. Nous sommes ensuite revenu sur Hamilton, où la fréquence était vraiment surchargé ! Pas loin de 9 avions en fréquence souhaitaient retourner en même temps sur le terrain, donc quasi 20 min d'attente en l'air... Pas grave on travaille les "orbit"!
Pour finir aujourd'hui, vol n°7, qui est le deuxième sur les décrochages, mais cette fois avec volet, et en configuration d'atterrissage etc... Le plafond était assez bas, mais on était dans les clous niveau sécurité, donc ça allait... Je pense que c'était mon vol le plus difficile jusque là, d'une part très long, d'autres part, il y a beaucoup de méthode et de rigueur à avoir pour ce vol. Mais tout s'est bien passé dans l'ensemble, je suis très content aussi, niveau radio, briefings etc... Tout ça commence à bien rentrer ! La radio restant le moins évident ici, surtout avec la surcharge de trafic à Hamilton (il fait beau tout le monde vol !), et dans une langue qui n'est pas la mienne...
Voilà tout pour le moment, j'ai encore deux vols de prévu demain matin aux aurores ! Cette fois ci on entre vraiment dans le vif du sujet, avec le début des circuits !
Photos un peu plus bas si vous le souhaiter !
------------------------------------
See you soon & Fly safe !
Hi everyone !
Finally the weather is really good, which makes me fly even more ! I think I've flown more in 1 week, than in 1 month and half since I arrived here.
Only one flight canceled this week, because of the amazing fog which come almost everyday here in the morning (Fingers crossed for tomorrow, i've got 2 early flights !).
I was really happy this week, because it was the first time I land to another airfield, aka Mata mata. With its huge grass runway. It was during my Flight 5, "Climb and descending 2". We've started, as usual, by a bit of revisions, then we went to Mata mata. The goal of this flight is to find the famous "Aiming point" on the runway. So we've practiced approximatly 5 circuits. My instructor show me the first one, then I had to do the rest. So I landed for the first time with the DA20, feeling so happy ! The lessons are pretty short, so you've to understand almost everything in a short time ! Next lesson will be a bit of revisions and that's it.
Hopefully, everything went well, and we did a full stop in Mata mata. 10 min break, then we took off for the Flight 6, which is "Stalling 1". Still really impressive those kind of flights, especially with a DA20, which is really hard to stall as the plane is so stable !
All went well, and we headed back to Hamilton were the amount of plane in the area was really impressive ! Some people were number 9 for the landing. We had to do some orbits for 20mins before to really go to the airport.
And today, again an early flight, number 7, which is "Stalling 2". I found this one a little bit harder than all the previous one. You have to be really methodical and really focus. Because you learn how to recover from a stall in base leg or final. But even though, I really enjoyed it !
Then we went back to Hamilton, lot of people on the frequency, but I've tried to manage even more this time. I was quite happy with the radio and all the procedures. We even land behind a Beech 1900 Air New Zealand, on the small runway 18R.
That's it for today, tomorrow, as I said before, I've got 2 flights in the morning (no fog requested...!), and we'll really see how to do circuit.
And now some photos for you...
Finally the weather is really good, which makes me fly even more ! I think I've flown more in 1 week, than in 1 month and half since I arrived here.
Only one flight canceled this week, because of the amazing fog which come almost everyday here in the morning (Fingers crossed for tomorrow, i've got 2 early flights !).
I was really happy this week, because it was the first time I land to another airfield, aka Mata mata. With its huge grass runway. It was during my Flight 5, "Climb and descending 2". We've started, as usual, by a bit of revisions, then we went to Mata mata. The goal of this flight is to find the famous "Aiming point" on the runway. So we've practiced approximatly 5 circuits. My instructor show me the first one, then I had to do the rest. So I landed for the first time with the DA20, feeling so happy ! The lessons are pretty short, so you've to understand almost everything in a short time ! Next lesson will be a bit of revisions and that's it.
Hopefully, everything went well, and we did a full stop in Mata mata. 10 min break, then we took off for the Flight 6, which is "Stalling 1". Still really impressive those kind of flights, especially with a DA20, which is really hard to stall as the plane is so stable !
All went well, and we headed back to Hamilton were the amount of plane in the area was really impressive ! Some people were number 9 for the landing. We had to do some orbits for 20mins before to really go to the airport.
And today, again an early flight, number 7, which is "Stalling 2". I found this one a little bit harder than all the previous one. You have to be really methodical and really focus. Because you learn how to recover from a stall in base leg or final. But even though, I really enjoyed it !
Then we went back to Hamilton, lot of people on the frequency, but I've tried to manage even more this time. I was quite happy with the radio and all the procedures. We even land behind a Beech 1900 Air New Zealand, on the small runway 18R.
That's it for today, tomorrow, as I said before, I've got 2 flights in the morning (no fog requested...!), and we'll really see how to do circuit.
And now some photos for you...
 |
| ...DA20, DA42 and C172... |
 |
| Most of the CTC's fleet on the ground |
 |
| My plane in Hamilton |
 |
| Flight 5, with stop in Mata Mata |
 |
| Flight 6, stalling practice |
 |
| Flight 7 |
See you soon & Fly safe !
