There’s nothing worse than seeing the plane you wanted to complete your complex endorsement in sitting at the airport next store awaiting fuel tanks. The clubs Piper Arrow needed to have its leaking fuels takes repaired and they needed to be sent out to be done properly. So…that’s the deal on that!
In the meantime, I took to the air three times in a Cessna 172G. I can’t blog much about it, but it was good to get into a few crosswinds and put an old plane to good use.
On the ground I have been spending hours with Gordy using a G1000 simulator with synthetic vision. We have been walking through our own simulated Civil Air Patrol missions and many flight plans. I discovered that the software will not let you mark a waypoint if it’s over water. I did figure out a work-a-round to this finally. Gordy is a mission pilot, but right now I am a scanner in training. However, I have no doubt that I could fly the CAP’s Cessna 182 with the G1000. I’m just not cleared to do so.
Gordy and I are trying to form our own crew, so we need an observer to make the crew complete. Crews consist of a mission pilot, front seat observer and a rear seat scanner. I am close to being a CAP VFR pilot, I just need a FORM 5 checkride to make that happen…this is where that high performance endorsement comes in handy. Anyway, I need to complete my scanner training and then my observer training. Only PIC time can help me become a mission pilot. Since Gordy is a CFI that’s never been a problem for him, but it has been and will be a problem for me due to finances….so things take 5 times longer to get done than they should.
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