I’m nervous and excited because I scheduled my instrument checkride for December 19th. Hopefully, that will motivate me to get my ass in gear and prepare for it.

Other than that. I’ve been working on partial panel approaches. Today was a lot of fun. I filed an IFR flight plan to do a round robin from KPDK, KFTY, KRYY then back to KPDK. My instructor asked if I filed for an alternate. I didn’t, oops. So he called to amend our flight plan but, when they tried to pull up the info, they didn’t have the plan on file. So he ended up having to file for us again.

Off we went to KFTY. ATC vectored us around for the approach for ILS 8. I think they forgot about us because they vectored us right through the ILS. The needle was fully deflected and we went missed, tried it again. The second time worked out a little better.

From there, we had planed to go to KRYY to do the ILS 27 but, since we did 2 at KFTY, we requested to go back to KPDK and do the ILS 20L there. ATC told us we were #12 for landing! (holy shit) ATC vectored us about 20 miles NW of the airport before turing us toward the ILS. At one point on the approach, they asked me to speed it up for all the jet traffic behind me.All my plane could do was about 100 knots. (WHAAA, the jets had to wait for me.) Once I was on short final, the tower asked if I had the airport in sight, and i did. They asked that I land on 20R instead, for all that jet traffic. Flight time 1.8.

My instructor got a few pics for me. I will have to upload those later.

Other news:
Sorry for not posting for a while. My husband and I have been working on improvements to the photo album and the blog. On the right, you will noticed I added a link to the photo album and added a random picture below the calendar. And I have been going back through old posts to fix the pictures how I want them.

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