Trying to make up for the last month when we couldn’t schedule even a single lesson.  This week is turning out to be all about landings. It is Srinath’s turn to fly today. Flight service gave us a bird advisory in the Livermore airport vicinity – first time I’ve heard this. We flew south of R-2531 after a left downwind departure from Livermore since the restricted area was in effect today being a weekday. This time we looked for landmarks that we had studied in the sectional chart last sunday.

A the end of two attempts at slow flight, we were at 3000′ and the aircraft and almost right above the New Jerusalem runway. So Srinath put the engine in idle, looked for 65kts glide speed and we circled once to lose altitude before going in for the first landing. On the second landing, Srinath took his hands off the throttle so Steve immediately put in full power for a go-around. Srinath did a total of 5 landings and one go-around at New Jerusalem, Steve did one landing to show Srinath. Then Srinath did a 6th straight-in landing back at Livermore.

[Aug 14] Steve and I both have a hard stop in the morning so we decide to shoot landings at Livermore airport itself. We start at 7:30am and get 13 landings in an hour before calling it a day.