September 29th & 30th

Today was a fairly uneventful day, aside from the winds, and lack of wind sock. In the past 48 hours at some point the winds were strong enough to snap the pole of the windsock, so it has been laying on the ground all day, on one of the days where it would have been MOST useful since I have been here. When there are any crosswinds here, they blow over, around, and through trees that line each side of the runway, this is turn creates quite a nice bit of turbulence on approach and low to the ground. Generally the last place you want to be being thrown around. I spent 2 hours flying today, mostly doing some instrument work up at altitude, but we also did about 8 take-offs and landings. Those were interesting...but a very good challenge.

Last night myself and Chris (My Instructor) went on our first night cross country. It took approx 4 hours en route, with 3 stops. Lac Du Bonnett which is a pretty cool airport, because it is actually a large float plane base with several float planes parked, and docked. From there we went to St. Andrews for fuel, then over downtown Winnipeg just to circle a couple of times and site see, then to Portage (SouthPort). Portage is where the Canadian military does there primary flight training, then it was time to head back home. We didn't arrive back in steinbach till about 12:13AM.

This is just a picture of the trailing edge of the weather that kept us grounded all weekend.

This is what the cockpit looks like at night, except camera's don't have very good night vision, so it as actually much easier to see then this picture would depict.