The Avian Fluke

I went into today’s flight knowing that I was going to make that airplane my bitch. After last time, with the bad flying and the bad feelings that went with it afterward, I knew today was going to be different.
We had around a 13-knot wind 20 degrees off the runway gusting to 24 at times. […]

I keep telling myself that I’m new - that I’ve only got 3.7 hours logged. It’s okay. It’ll come.
About the only thing I did right today was the pre-flight and takeoff. Everything else fundamentally sucked.
I couldn’t get attitude of the plane adjusted right, I couldn’t get an airspeed nailed down. And today was the first […]