Bombing around...

Last Sunday, Ray called and asked if I wanted to go be his safety pilot while he shot some approaches in the RV-10. Kinda hard to so no to that. He picked me up at Ottawa and let me do the take-off while he setup for the approaches into New Century (IXD). He shot two ILS 36 approaches and did a good job. Just for fun, he let me shoot an approach as well. This was my first approach in a REAL airplane and too make it tougher, it was from the right seat. (I've shot lots of simulator approaches). I actually did a decent job. We did the full procedure and I kept it in the donut down final until the very end when I got just oustide of it. Ray took it back at the 200ft MDA and I took off the foggles to find us just left of the runway 20 feet or so. He was also kind enough to let me fly back to Ottawa... so I logged .9 hours of RV-10 time!

Last night I make the short 25 min. flight up to KLXT for the EAA Chapter 91 meeting where Ed Holicky from NOAA came and talked about weather services and their future. I logged 2 night landings. I also found a somewhat major issue with my electronics. Whenever I turn up the instrument lights, it causes my CDI to deflect and act weird. If I turn them off, everything works OK. Going to need to get to the bottom of that soon!