Third Flight - 4 landings

Big fire right off the end of the runway while I was doing pre-flight; tower said it was an overturned explosives truck!

Met Dave, the owner of the plane I'm renting time on - nice guy. We ended up popping the engine cowling after I found that the taxi & landing lights were out. It was just a slipped wiring harness - we put it back together and tied a string on it to hold it together.

Practiced slow flight @ 60kts, holding altitude & heading in level flight and in 15/30/45 deg turns - I actually did pretty well.

Flew back down the west bank of the Hudson river and practicing my new turn skills at 1000' - what a beautiful night to fly - right at sunset.


Then we returned to the airport and practiced flying the pattern and landing - made four landings myself - a little low on the approach for one...
Bob also showed me 2 simulated engine failure landings.

Toured the control tower and met Bill, one of the controllers, who is retiring on Friday.