Saturday, March 10, 2012

Instrument checkride has been scheduled...

I had another instrument flight last thursday. It was my very first flight with my new instructor. I already did some sim work with him and everything it went ok.
This past thursday before our flight, my instructor was very tired. He had been flying all day and helooked kind of he was in a bad mood. He told me that my instrument checkride has been scheduled in Huntsville, AL with Clyde Shelton for Sat, February 17th . I am a little scared now, since I now don't know what to expect and apparently they are going to start using Clyde now for some checkrides since it has been pretty hard to find availability from the DPEs. The bad thing is that my mindset was that I was going to go with Mr. Fred Houston and I am very familiar with the approaches at KWDR and the area around; I already had a lot of information of how he conducts the oral test plus I had my multi engine checkride with him at the beginning of the year, so I already now what to expect on the personality side.
My instructor doesn't have any information about Clyde either.
On the good side.. this will be a great challenge. I am not familiar with the Hunstville, AL area since I've never flown there but I will do my homework and research on the approaches and areas around it. I don't have any more flights scheduled before my checkride; except for the one going up to Huntsville and back. I'll have an intensive sim work tomorrow and monday afternoon. I already finished the King school IFR checkride videos and today I will go through the ASA oral test guide. I am terrified of getting a pink slip here, I can't get it and I won't get it.
My flight for that night wasn't my best, we had to switch airplanes since the red nav light was not working on the one we filed. We did a VOR approach at Toccoa . I lost some situational awareness and busted my MDA on a GPS approach to Gainesville. My ILS back to PDK was flawless.
Keep your fingers crossed.. my next post will be on Saturday night...

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