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Night Flight Training Completed

Night Flight Training Completed

1 ) Last night I took advantage of the fairly clear skies and warm weather to compete my required night flying. In order to apply for a Private Pilot Certificate (Single Engine Land), one needs 10 nighttime full-stop landings, 3 hours of night flight, and a night cross country flight with one leg of at least 50 nautical miles.

We started with landings. My first two landings were on runway 13 Left. The runway lights and VASI were on, as was my landing light. The fist landing was a bit of bounce because I flared too late. It was hard to tell exactly how far off the ground I was!

On the second one, Jim reminded me to focus my attention on the far end of the runway. That helped a lot and resulting in a much smoother runway.

With the easy stuff out of the way, my next few landings were with the landing light off. It wasn't a very big deal, since there was more than adequate lighting on the runway itself.

Then the real fun began. We asked the tower to let us use Runway 13 Right, which is unlit. I performed several takeoffs and landings with nothing more than my landing light to illuminate the path. There's no on 13 Right either. Luckily I had the lights of the mall at the end of the runway to focus on during the flare.

For my second to last landing, the tower noted that the winds were calm and cleared us to use 31 Left if we wanted. It was 10pmso the tower then shut down for the nightWe took advantage of that and I got to land with the aid of a VASI but no dominant lights at the far end of the runway to focus on. My first attempt resulted in a go-around, because I was a little fast and seemed to float quite a ways down the runway. Worst of all, it was difficult to judge how far away the end of the runway அச்டுஅல்லி

Coming around for another attempt, I controlled my speed better and steepened up the glide. We made it down just fine. At the end of the runway, we spun around, took off on 13 Right, and made one last landing before hitting the fuel island.