9/5/2002
Hobbs - 1.6 99348, $23 fuel, 3hrs Jeff
Log for 9/5/2002:
Met Jeff at 4:20pm at OAK and planned our XC (from scratch)
from OAK<->Yolo County '2Q3'
We preflighted + took off with winds 280@20kts - strong tailwhind during taxi,
plus slow groundspeed on takeoff was interesting. Desired course heading of
3deg, but vectored to 050deg for traffic, then own nav with bay dep.
The flight took us just over Travis AFB (private) and abeam the big runways -
awesome!!! saw something like c-130 tankers taking off, and doing T&Gs - sweet!
I spotted much better checkpoint features this time (highways, power lines,
etc... - nothing wrong with maintaining a sense of spatial orientation the
whole way) and the actual checkpoints were much better... Spotted 2Q3 about
7-10 miles out and asked Travis Dep for freq change. Called traffic for several
legs and made mostly my own decisions (i.e. on traffic calls, how to enter the
45, found the wind tetrahedron, started our descent on time etc...
we made the t&g - I thought safe, but marginal as we were well off centerline
(I had not adjusted enough for the right crosswind)... thought about go-around,
but we were going straight down the runway so... a crappy soft-field... going
to do more T&Gs on the next opportunity.
Departed straight out from 16 as noise abatement requests, and contacted
"rancho radio" several times - finally they responded, and we closed our flight
plan. Then Travis Appch for a friendly & calm controller. Overflew the AFB,
abeam nut tree, over the 'mothball fleet' of old navy vessels, abeam CCR, and
in visual range of the 'hump' of a hill with a tower on it, directly behind the
Mormon Temple... Jeff says that at 2500' you can clear the whole range, but I
was at 3500' approx... contacted Bay appch and made a smooth transition into
the airport airspace (just 2 min later approx handed off to OAK twr).
Finally - made an ok (Jeff wasn't happy with it) short-field landing. I guess
I'm used to the wide OAK runway and haven't done much LVK or APC T&Gs lately.
We did the 180 for back taxi and were chewed out by the controller, who later
apologized - that he was on a landline, and what we did was fine... expedited
off on Alpha and back to Kaiser...
whoo! off for a weekend, and then solo to APC, then solo XC to STS, night +
requirements! woohooo!
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