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Old 9th April 2005 | 16:20
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Blinkz
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Well I guess I should my story now.

I took my test about a month ago and got a partial.

mainly screwed up my PFL, lined up a field that I thought would do, into wind and an ok size (nothing special tho) as I decended onto it, it turned out to be smaller then I thought, and whilst thinking what to do I let the speed drop off slightly. It also turned out that I had got totally disoriented and was actaully landing downwind. Not quite sure how that happened, there was quite afew showers about so that may have been a factor.

My EFATO could have been better too, It was pulled on one of my circuits. My test was at prestwick and they have a 3km runway so it was no problem to just land ahead back on the runway. With the huge expanse below me I got complacent and didn't shut down the engine or call a mayday. doh.

And finally again on one of my circuits the examiner gave me an altenator failure on climbout. I couldn't remember what to do as this took me by surprise.

I have to admit that I thought I was going to get a fail so I was pleasently surprised about getting a partial. The weather since has been awful and so have only flown once to practice some PFLs. Hopefully the weather will get better.
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