I've spent some of the last couple of days reading plugin
documentation and puttering with the infastructure surrounding a
decent plugin widget for Totem. I feel like I have a better
understanding of how things need to come together, so I can get
some real hacking done now.
I also did my required IFR cross-country last night. This must be
a cross-country of at least 250 nautical miles that includes three
different kinds of approaches. So I did a route from Bedford to Pittsfield, down to
Hartford-Brainard
and back up to Bedford. Did one NDB approach at Pittsfield, which
I kind of fumbled, one decent VOR approach into Hartford-Brainard
which went quite well and the final ILS approach into Bedford.
The last approach went sort of OK. I did it without an attitude
indicator and my instructor kept asking me to change the speed
during the approach. It went OK, but not great. I kept the
localizer centered, but failed to keep the glide slope centered.
We'll have to work on changing speeds during an approach as well
as partial panel approaches.
From here on out, I can use a safety pilot and practice local
approaches. I still need to build a good 20 hours of hood time
before I even meet the minimum standards in that regard so I've
got some work to do.
