It was a long day today; after arriving at 9:30 am at KLZU, my instructor and I went for a flight to practice all maneuvers for the commercial checkride again. It is easier to fly from LZU because you spend a lot less time on the ground, contrary to PDK where besides tons of taxiways, it is also extremely busy sometimes and your hobbs can take .4 hours without even taking off. Also LZU is closer to Lake Lanier, which is a great practice area and Winder KWDR to practice landings; PDK has nothing around.
So up we went in a scatterred cloudy day, I performed every maneuver within limits and we returned to LZU.
There were several examiners and students taking their CFII and CFI checkrides; the school looked pretty busy.
My oral went fine.. it wasn't perfect.. the examiner asked me some tricky questions about maneuvering speed, performance and density altitude. Then we went up flying, we went up to Lake Lanier and I started with a Lazy-Eight, Chandelle, Steep Spiral and Eights on Pivots.
Then we went back to LZU and did a short (bouncy) landing, a perfect beautiful soft field landing and a so-so power-off 180. The flight only lasted one hour and now I am completely done with ATP's phase 4..
I took a break this afternoon and went to the pool with my family, I enjoyed the rest of the day with them. Tomorrow and the rest of the weekend it will be all about studying for my FIA (Instructor Written Test) and then on monday I will be at CFI school at LZU. I am very excited! I can't believe I am almost done!
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