Flight journal: flight 65, 66

[beaky]

Flight 65

01-21-97
C-172
TEB-46N-TEB
2.0 solo
2 landings

"X-country; pilotage and dead reckoning; radio proc.; normal/short t.o & lnding"

-This journal entry, if I ever made one, is missing... probably just another routine hop to Greenwood Lake and back-


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Flight 66
01-27-97

(LONG SOLO XC)

C-172
TEB-OWD-ALB-TEB

5.4 solo
3 landings

"Long XC; pilotage; dead reck; radio comm (incl flight following & flight watch); normal/shrt to&lndngs; landings at 2 unfam. airports; use of carb heat in cruise; x-wind landing"

[Another missing entry, but I remember the highlights of my first really long trip]

Very cold weather, clear but some frontal activity NW as usual. Did very well with my navigation across the unfamiliar expanse of Connecticut to Norwood, just outside Boston.
Made considerable use of Flight Following and Flight Watch- they were helpful and easy to deal with.

Bucked a gusty headwind as I flew west towards Albany, right over snow-covered Mt. Greylock in the NW corner of Massachusetts.

Encountered pretty marginal VMC approaching Albany from the SE... I remember Tower requesting I report the runway in sight, and it took longer than I expected to see it.

Made a good landing there,topped off the tanks, drained my tank, and got the weather at Signature there.

[Brett_Henderson]

*gulp*