flight training
Jan. 26th, 2024 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spacefemI haven't gone flying in over a month now! I had a long training lesson on 12/20, we went about 20 minutes away to an airport with a bunch of radio approaches (as opposed to GPS) - nav, localizer, ILS - and had a long 3 hours going around them. I felt burnt out.
I also got sick, hours later, caught the stomach bug that my family was slooowly passing around. I only bring this up because the morning of the flight, I was like... how do I feel? My daughter was sick four days ago but she's fine, I'm fine, right? Do I feel bad? My stomach felt bad but that might be nerves. It was a lesson, with an instructor, so I went for it, but didn't feel great. I wished it was over.
I flew, I landed, I drove home, and I got sick in our back yard. So I WAS sick, just not fully symptomatic yet! Dammit! Or my body just knew "this is not a good time to throw up" and kept on keeping on until I was safe at home, I appreciate that. I just see the whole thing as a valid reason to have not enjoyed the flight as much as I have others.
then there was christmas, new years, work travel, and now... garbage weather! Last December was Fog Month for weeks straight, this year I guess it's January.
I know what you're thinking... aren't you instrument training? learning to fly through fog and clouds? But there's this tiny sliver of clouds we can actually safety fly through. If it's right around freezing, any visible moisture can freeze on your airplane and build up ice, messing everything up for you. Big airplanes don't care, they have enough power for heated leading edges, but little airplanes just stay on the ground.
we can fly through clouds as long as there's no ice and no thunderstorms. I feel like that eliminates like 90% of clouds, at least in Kansas.
Anyway I was supposed to get back into it this weekend but once again, the forecast is telling me it's not my time. so it's all on pause. I'm not that far away from being able to finish this darn rating! but it sure won't be January.
I also got sick, hours later, caught the stomach bug that my family was slooowly passing around. I only bring this up because the morning of the flight, I was like... how do I feel? My daughter was sick four days ago but she's fine, I'm fine, right? Do I feel bad? My stomach felt bad but that might be nerves. It was a lesson, with an instructor, so I went for it, but didn't feel great. I wished it was over.
I flew, I landed, I drove home, and I got sick in our back yard. So I WAS sick, just not fully symptomatic yet! Dammit! Or my body just knew "this is not a good time to throw up" and kept on keeping on until I was safe at home, I appreciate that. I just see the whole thing as a valid reason to have not enjoyed the flight as much as I have others.
then there was christmas, new years, work travel, and now... garbage weather! Last December was Fog Month for weeks straight, this year I guess it's January.
I know what you're thinking... aren't you instrument training? learning to fly through fog and clouds? But there's this tiny sliver of clouds we can actually safety fly through. If it's right around freezing, any visible moisture can freeze on your airplane and build up ice, messing everything up for you. Big airplanes don't care, they have enough power for heated leading edges, but little airplanes just stay on the ground.
we can fly through clouds as long as there's no ice and no thunderstorms. I feel like that eliminates like 90% of clouds, at least in Kansas.
Anyway I was supposed to get back into it this weekend but once again, the forecast is telling me it's not my time. so it's all on pause. I'm not that far away from being able to finish this darn rating! but it sure won't be January.
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