Familiarization Flight

Josh and I went down to Boundary Bay Airport as we had familiarization flights booked for 1:00. When we checked in we found my instructor had the day off so we both went with Josh’s instructor to calculate our loads for our flights while the front desk worked out the scheduling. We soon found that Josh was just a bit too big for the 152 (two seat Cessna) so we upgraded him to the 172 (four seat Cessna). Since we now had a bigger plane, we decided to all go together. We're shown how to do the preflight inspection but it goes a little slow as Josh and I ask about the workings of every part of the plane. It doesn’t bother our instructor though, and he’s glad that we’re asking a lot of questions.

Josh is the first to fly. We took off from Boundary Bay (CZBB), did a touch-and-go (a maneuver where as soon as you land you take off again) at Pitt Meadows (CYPK) and then landed there. We used the washrooms there and then I got in the left seat (where the pilot in command (PIC) normally sits) and took off. I did a touch-and-go (T&G) at CYPK then slowly flew back to CZBB. We requested to land on runway 07 because it's closer to the apron, but it was a harsh crosswind. Our instructor had been letting us handle most of the T&Gs and landings so far but this time he was operating the controls firmly as he crabbed his way down correcting just above the threshold. Josh and I bought logbooks and I was signed me on my first 0.6 hours of flight time.