It was a busy day today. Super Bowl is scheduled to be played in Santa Clara in 4 days and people are starting to fly into town. The weather isn’t great with the sun going down and rain about to come in. Srinath flew with Steve today and they stayed in the traffic pattern – left traffic on Rwy 7L. Today while in the traffic pattern, they negotiated two jets, a King Air, an RV, a Mooney and other aircraft. Once the downwind was extended all the way to Dublin before the tower called left base turn.
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More landings
I’m finally starting to get the hang of landings.
Today the winds were from 280 @ 6kts and the controller cleared us for right closed traffic on runway 25R. We were #2 behind another inbound aircraft and I started off being too flat on the landings. On one of the early landings, I ballooned up due to too much flare too soon and Steve pushed the power in to do a go-around. We were then #2 behind a Beechcraft Baron and the tower changed us from 25R to 25L and left closed traffic. After a landing, the tower gave us the option to switch back to 25R which we gladly took.
After a few landings and one real greaser, Steve took the plane just to give me a breather. He did a short approach to hand the plane back to me quickly for more touch and go’s. I did another greaser landing and the controller switched me to 25L promising to switch me back to 25R after one pattern. But soon the controller came back on the radio and asked us to follow a LearJet to 25R. We called it quits after that final landing.
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