Ground Reference maneuvers
Today we continued our practice of ground reference maneuvers. We were getting some pretty good winds off of the mountains, which made it harder than it should have been. I found S-turns to be pretty simple once you get used to them, and turns around a point werent much harder. Probably the easiest for me was the rectangular course. Its just like flying a regular traffic pattern.
The weather wasnt bad today. We just had some strong winds out of the Knik valley. When we came back to land, the winds were reporting 180/18. So the landing on runway 16 was a bit bumpy.
The Palmer airport is a fascinating one to learn to fly at, especially with the State Foresty aviation division being based here. We share the patter with Beavers, Twin Commanders, Pilatus PC-7s, and soon the DC-6 firebombers.