Flight Day 28  

Posted by y. 源

I thought today gonna fly Nav2 (Solo), but bad weather kicked in. So I had to cancel that sortie of mine. But then again, a friend of mine who was supposed to fly with my instructor fell sick. So the Flight Ops staff scheduled me to take-over his slot to fly my next dual sortie, IF4.

IF4 is the last Instrument Flying with instructor. And the air exercises this time were Unusual Attitude and using VOR/DME. Unusual Attitude was like this: Instructor took over the control and made some extreme controls like dived with negative G, 60 degrees banking with positive G, climb and descend at high speed. Then, I took over the control and recover from it. But hey, I didn't feel like vomiting. In fact, I felt calm! And all this thanks to my crazy friends who "trained" me using special methods. As for VOR/DME, it's gonna be a little confusing to explain it here. However to keep it short and simple, the air exercise was actually like tracking a particular station by tuning to its frequency and heading, and then fly towards the station according to instrument's indications. Haha. I scored another B+ for this sortie!

Anyway, after finished the sortie's briefing, it was already 1900 hours. My friends came to hangar to pick me up and went for dinner at town. This time we didn't go for Bak Kut Teh because we wanted to try something new. We stopped by a Chinese restaurant and I ordered a plate of Wanton Mee and a bowl of Laksa soup. Cost me 6bucks included with drinks. My main purpose was actually to try the Laksa Soup. Thumbs up for the taste, but I think the one I had back down south was much better, cooked by YW's parents. Haha.

The weather is getting weird each day. One hour hot and sunny, the next hour cold and raining. Some of us are starting to fall sick with sore throat and fever and running nose. I finally fall sick too after few weeks of flying under this kinda weather.

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