Sunday, November 16, 2008

AZ: last flights on the Archer & Fountain Hills

Falcon tower, Archer 4149 Yankee is overhead fountain hills at 3200 feet with information Echo, inbound for a full stop landing ....

Fountain Hills is a community in the north of Mesa with lovely houses, green fields, a mild climate and ... a huge fountain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Hills,_Arizona). When departing or arriving at our homebase Falcon Fields, it's often a reporting point when we go / fly through the north east practise area. This weekend there was some kind of festival (brasserie in dutch), a good oportunity to have a look at that fountain, but this time not from a bird's eye perspective. And it's true what they say about it: it's impressive!

Almost all the VFR navigation flights are done, except for one: the last VFR progress check, which is mission 65. Tomorrow I'll have mission 64 with my instructor, I guess that will be also the last flight with him ... for the next phase (IFR) we'll start on a newer aircraft (the diamond DA-40) and also with new instructors. The check will include a bit of everything: navigation, manoeuvres, patterns, simulated failures, ... but of course, it should be good.

Time to review some manuals, hopefully the next post entry of this blog will be a good one ...

for pictures of fountain hills:
AZ - fountain hills festival