Last weekend I had the opportunity to fly both on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was choppy, lots of turbulence but I managed to do some descent approaches into Athens. Still I made some stupid mistakes that pissed me off (forgot to retract the landing gear after takeoff, didn't set climb power after 1000 ft, and lost 150 ft of altitude while trying to maintain heading.
Sunday was a total different thing, the air was smooth and my instructor decided he would do a mock checkride. This would be his last day at ATP. We took off and this time I had my game on; I was totally focused, I was making small corrections to maintain heading and altitude, totally dominated the GPS for the approaches, having my next frequencies ready ahead of time, I did pretty good and I'm very happy now. We shoot the VOR DME Arc from AHN into KWDR, then did the published missed, the RNAV approach at the same airport, and finally we were vectored into the ILS to 31 where the instructor cut one of the engines and I managed it perfectly without loosing my LOC CDI.
I am still studying every night for the oral test. My next flight or sim should be this weekend with my new instructor.
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