5/28/2009
For my night cross country, we flew back to my hometown, Chattanooga, TN. Night cross country is very different. Lakes are not as good, unless its a very clear night. Better are well lit cities and busy roads. Airports are suprisingly hard to see at night because their lights blend into the surrounding lights.
We got there around 10:00, making the trip just over an hour from LZU. Dinner at Hooters on Lee Hwy. I had a chicken sandwich of marginal quality. Back to LZU. Arrived around 1.
Fumbling around with the maps and flight plan and everything else is a real pain at night. In 10 years, they might not even make student pilots do this anymore. I look at it as part of an overall skillset. I would never choose to navigate visually somewhere unfamiliar at night. However in the very rare event of (1) a total electrical systems failure AND (2) portable battery-powered GPS failure .. it would be good to have had some night VFR navigation.
1 more assisted cross country flight and then a solo cross country. And finally coming into view on the horizon, the FAA exam. Chris was tossing around August as a timeframe for completing the private pilot license.
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