First I'll share with you the first thing that caught my eye on the apron today, a Boeing Kaydet. We saw this guy take off during our preflight checks and it rocketed out of there like a bat out of hell. It must have been climbing at around 1500 to 2000 feet per minute. I guess having two sets of wings has it's advantages.
The ceilings were a little low today (broken at 2200 feet) but it seemed a bit clearer out east so we took off with our fingers crossed and hoping we wouldn't need to go any farther than Hope.
Near Abbotsford we found a hole in the cover big enough to squeeze though and circled up above the clouds. Very beautiful and surreal indeed. The pictures don't do it justice.
We practiced some more power-on stalls with their gut-wrenching drops that even my instructor admits he still doesn't enjoy. Just as I was starting to get used to the feeling of negative Gs we needed to head back and my instructor suggested demonstrating spins to get back below the clouds. I didn't feel like any more roller-coaster moves, but I had to do them eventually. I can endure the ground spinning around, falling towards me, but my stomach trying to switch places with my lungs is what gets me apprehensive.
There was a long lineup of craft trying to get back to Boundary Bay and we ended up doing a holding pattern over King George Airpark for a few minuets with four other planes. There was one in particular that kept getting far too close. At least twice we were within one-hundred feet of each other. Good practice for traffic spotting none-the-less.
I feel this was my best flight so far as I wasn't rushed and handled the plane confidently.
