With all of the cross country flights I’ve been doing lately, I thought it would be a good day to go up and practice some airwork instead. It’s been a while since I worked on my steep turns and slow flight so a brush-up flight was in order. My handy iPhone recorded my track, altitude, and speed for this one so you can see my track overlayed onto google maps. Crosswind component was up there around 16 kts so I did two circuits before calling it quits.

Overall a good flight. Need to practice my commercial steep turns though. They consist of a steep turn 180º followed by a roll out and a reverse steep turn 180º back to where you started – all in one smooth motion. They’re looking passable right now but I can do better. You can see them as ‘S’ shapes on the GPS track below.