And yet another entry for my logbook for yesterday, this one reads Jersey Airport & a PA28. Was very warm yesterday, around 25 Deg C at 10:00. Wind was slightly cross wind & around 15kts. So yet 7 t/o & 8 landings today.
Jersey a bit of overload after the 810m grass strip at Rochester. Acres of tarmac, lots of big airplanes flying in & out & proper RT! Met the instructor, explained where I was in the scheme of things (didn't have log book or headset with me), so he said we'd do some more circuits. Jersey circuits are huge compared to RCS ones because of noise abatement. I get nagged for flying too far out at RCS, this was the opposite, I was flying to close to land and not far enough over the sea.
PA28 felt a bit weird, controls a bit different from the C172, flap lever that was a handbrake lever stolen from a car & carb heat to worry about. The 172 I fly is injected so no carb heat. Also only one door, not having to duck to avoid banging my noggin on the wing or strut was weird, Despite the temp the PA28 needed a lot of prime to get going, but it cranked into life eventually. You seem to taxi miles at Jersey with proper taxi ways & holding points. Take off was uneventful, Vy speeds pretty similar to the 172. Circuit height at Jersey is 1300ft. Crystal clear vis, with a brilliant view of Jersey & our hotel, plus across to Alderney & Guernsey. Did a couple of landings with just two stages of flap which went reasonably well. The next with full flap, got too slow & flared too early. The PA28 has very little trim change with two stages of flap, but a big change with 3 stages & also feels like it has virtually stopped. I didn't use the trimmer in the whole flight, whereas the 172 it gets used a lot! Climb out & most of final speed control seemed OK, but final flare was variable a couple of good ones & 2 poor ones. So no different to RCS then!
So worthwhile, another type for my logbook & another 1:10 for my logbook.
So now 41 lessons & 40 hours 30mins in.
Had a lesson booked at RCS for Friday, but Condor moved our ferry back from Thursday 9th at 09:25 to 07:25
So phoned travel agent & pushed it out for another day so don't get back to Kent until Friday PM. Have two lessons booked for Saturday though with two hours between them.
PS meant to be an airshow here on Thursday. Saw a Mustang fly into Jersey Aero club yesterday & the Red Arrows flew in over St. Aubin harbour late PM. Massive thunderstorm in the early hours of the morning here, so airshow practice may have to wait.