Clear of Cloud

Grounded.

Since late last week - around the time of the flight test actually - I've been having sinus problems.  Last weekend was one long energy slump and the last couple of days haven't be great either.  I dragged myself to the doctor yesterday to see what was wrong.  It turns out there's a bad dose of sinusitis doing the rounds and I have it.  The doc, who incidentally is also my Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) prescribed me a ten day course of anti-biotics, a nasal spray and told me to ground myself for the week.

I could do without this.  I really wanted to have the flight retest done by the end of next week.  Before we know it the evenings will be closing in and the weather deteriorating - if that's possible looking back at the summer we had.

Not This Time

Well two hours fifteen minutes of flying and I'm still a student. I failed the test and I'm wrecked.

I'm not going into a blow by blow here but stuff was likely to go wrong was fine and stuff that normally goes very smoothly went horrible. Could I do a flapless landing - no. Have I ever had problems before - no.

Really frustrating.

Anyway, too tired tonight to write more.

Flight Test Update

I went for another checkflight today to review some upper airwork - stalls, steep turns and the like.  It went well so flight test is-a-go as scheduled for Thursday- if I can raise the examiner on the phone to confirm.

...... just got him.  I'm to ring tomorrow to confirm that the weather's good for Thursday.  Here goes.