Happy days!!!!
At the end of last year I saw a clip of some spinning training done in a Cessna. My comment at that stage was that I probably need to do a conversion to the Cessna… cause the Piper does not spin!
Well, all thing said, being at altitude, the Cherokee range is not the best choice if you want to carry more than two people. Therefore, in January, I decided to take the step and do the conversion to the Cessna 172.
And so it happened that, on a sunny, South African day, I started with my conversion to the C172. Everything being equal, I probably like the Piper more, but that said, the additional power and the fact that site seeing is much easier when you do not have to peer over the wing, makes for a fun ride.
She is much more difficult to fly than the piper and the prop wash hitting the tail has you constantly standing on the right rudder, but once you have mastered that, it is a nice little plane to fly.
So…. (drumroll)…
After a couple of months (almost five, I will have you know) I got the endorsement for the C172 today.
I’ll stop smiling next weekend… maybe.
So what next?
Financial recovery, for one. And some hour building. As with everything, practice makes perfect. I intend to get alot of practice.
Then possibly a night rating. Would dearly love to have a night rating. But until then, I want to take Enzo flying. And maybe even Nariko. She enjoyed the trip on the Boeing down to PE immensely. Who knows, maybe she has a little pilot in her somewhere…
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