Aileron

Rimas got himself some extra instructing time this week so I jumped on it and booked a bunch of time with the intention of getting me to solo this week. I think I'm losing ground during the off weeks, so one concerted push to get my landings smoothed out should be all that's needed to get me solo.

I had never been to KOAK so we decided to go there. KOAK is a cool airport in that it's really two airports in one: the international/commercial side and a general aviation side. There were a lot of comms getting into KOAK and Rimas had to pick up slack when I simply didn't understand half the instructions. At the last minute, the tower offered us the commercial runway. The big, 10,520 ft. runway. We had to slow down and descend pretty rapidly to get down, but we accepted the clearance because chance to land on freaking two-miles of runway. Unfortunately, it wasn't a good landing. I got fooled by the huge size, flared too high, and dropped the plane in.

More pattern work on the GA side, then depart to KSQL.

KSQL was a circus. We could barely get the tower to respond to us and when they did, they just told us to hold doing three-sixties. Everyone was being told to do three-sixties. Tower was simply task-saturated. We eventually got in there, did our one full-stop, and got the hell out of there.

KPAO was almost just as busy and we came very close to their delta without a response from the tower. Thankfully we were acknowledged before having to do more holding. My landing was crappy. The ol' big runway to little runway trick, I flared too late on KPAO's small runway and landed hard.

• Flight Hours: Δ1.1   Σ38.5
• KPAO 291747Z 35007KT 10SM FEW012 SCT020 18/14 A3003
• KOAK 291719Z 26006KT 10SM FEW008 SCT010 BKN200 16/12 A3004 RMK AO2 T01560122
• KSQL 291747Z 02007KT 10SM FEW008 SCT200 17/14 A3003