Yesterday's weather was awesome. Bright sunny day. Got lotsa clouds as well, but they were just building up on top of the mountainous regions. So it did not really affected our flying.

Did a VOR/DME approach. It's quite complicated to explain the whole lot of procedures but it's suffice to point out that the main thing about this sortie is to track inbound and outbound of a VOR radial, make holding over VOR and then make a approach (then landing) according to the laid down procedures.


Since this is the first sortie me doing this kinda instrument procedures, so I still don't really get the complete picture of what's going on. But the outline is enough for me to realise what I should know.

Few months I did not fly due to ground school also somehow deteriorates my ability to multitask.

You know, in studies, our mind tends to focus on a single thing at a time to understand a particular topic.

In flying, we have to focus more than 2 things at any one time. Most of the time, it's 3.

So it'll take a few days to re-master again the multi-tasking skill.

My head felt dizzy halfway through the sortie. And also stiffening of fingers.

I thought I was hyperventilating. So I tried to breathe normally but it didn't help much. Perhaps it was due to dehydration cuz I was backseating my batchmate in the previous sortie and I did not drink enough water for my next sortie.

Overall, it did not affect my sortie much as I did everything until I touched down.

My instructor took over after that. Haha. I used up all the energy already. I could barely stand after I got down from the plane. My friend said my face was very pale.

This happened to me when I first started flying. Just need 2 or 3 more sorties to get my body back into flying mode.