I’ve been flying less lately, and it has shown in my performance. \u00a0I’m working to analyze what’s up, and get busy fixing it.<\/p>\n
How I found it:<\/strong> During flights in the SR22 with Mike, I got behind on my scan using the Avidyne system – more than once. While I typically had the correct approach loaded and the aircraft lined up, I had difficulty keeping track of where I was with respect to lateral guidance – how far from the runway and\/or step down fixes. The result was that I was too high at the MDA, and had to miss the approach.\u00a0Since then, Mike has shown me his technique to keep DME like information in my scan, but I need to practice.<\/p>\n What to do about it:<\/strong> Returning home after that experience, I fired up the simulator and started flying both single and multi-engine models on non-precision approaches. \u00a0I’m not having issues with precision approaches and WAAS GPS approaches, but confirmed that I need to clean up this area. My scan is rusty in the sim and the 22; my approach briefing misses a few items when it gets busy; and I’m basically out of practice regarding non-precision approaches.<\/p>\n Study and Research:<\/strong> I’m reading\u00a0Redefining Airmanship, by Anthony Kern, based on a recommendation that came from one of my sources. \u00a0It is a rather well written textbook, in my opinion, but not a particularly fun read. \u00a0Interesting if you want to self-evaluate and find ideas for improving. I’ve already been undertaking the self-improvement steps defined in the text, but there are some new ideas coming to the fore. For now – I am working to improve my use of checklists and stop relying so much on memory.<\/p>\n Improvements are coming.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The title of this post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been flying less lately, and it has shown in my performance. \u00a0I’m working to analyze what’s up, and get busy fixing it. How I found it: During flights in the SR22 with Mike, I got behind on my scan using the Avidyne system – more than once. While I typically had the correct approach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-home-page","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airdorrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}