Tracking VORs and using DME (distance measuring equipment) under the hood. 9/17/2002

Tue: 9/17
Hobbs 1.3, 0.9 Hood
*note: logbook has '9/16' as date
Cessna N1658F

We went up from OAK to SP-Bay for hoodwork - started asap on it (hours req) and Jeff ran me thru all the maneuvers:
Flew to two VORs (Skaggs, Sausalito), and used the DME for the 1st time. Then he had me use the GPS to fly direct to Santa Rosa (towards for a minute),
and then compass turns... (hard! for those of you not in the 'know' about these things - at least the first few times). Did power on and power-off stalls
under the hood, including incipient spin (non-developed) entry and recovery both left and right w/hood. Also did unusual attitude recoveries.
Finally, flying altitude from ATC (doing all the radio work except one traffic advisory) - got ATIS, Bay-Appch, Oak-Twr, and with directional vectors from Jeff,
brought us right over the 'temple' and took off the hood. Came in for a landing on 15 - accidentally started aligning with downwind for runway 33! (oops!) -
will have to think a bit more about this.

all told - a great flight - did a long (massive in my mind) slip to lose altitude from 2500' over the temple to essentially a straight-in for 15.
personal note: forgot to note the time-off... :(

Tomorrow is a solo XC to Santa Rosa, then on Thursday it's solo XC to Modesto (new airport solo!), and Sunday may be a solo XC to Sac-Exec->STS (long)