We didn’t know Steve was going to ask Srinath to do his second solo today. The training started off with Srinath flying through Byron, Tracy and New Jerusalem practicing soft field takeoffs and landings. The solo was then at New Jerusalem where he did 3 takeoffs and landings. I gave Srinath some relief by flying 6MD back to Livermore.
Last week on September 8, Srinath flew a bunch of touch and go’s at New Jerusalem. One was a “there is a cow on the runway” go-around.
We took off today and flew the usual right downwind departure. While flying over brushy peak, traffic controller alerted us to traffic in the vicinity which took us a while to locate. By that time we neared Tracy and Steve observed that the runways which had been closed for re-surfacing were getting ready and now being painted.
Today, Srinath had a chance to practice soft field takeoff and landings at New Jerusalem. Steve demonstrated it first and then let Srinath try it out a few times. On the way back to Livermore, we chatted quite a bit about how these require some of the most finessed piloting techniques.
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