I can so relate to your frustration!
I can so relate to your frustration!
Glad to hear we are not alone in the "Butterfly-owner blues"!!!!
Your frustration is valid & weather will continue to frustrate us .. even after we solo! Good ADM is important & you seem to be doing well with that in your Cessna flying.
The hard road to gyro-piloting seems to be littered with many lessons in patience & more patience ... THEN SOME more lessons ... as Doug B always states...you have to want it REALLY BADLY ... to keep pushing down all the obstacles that keep popping up!
You are no doubt familiar with my own tortuous journey ..... a rapid 10 week focused gyro build in winter of 2012 ... airworthy inspected in April & test flown by Larry soon after ..... my lessons with our CFI ( each travelling 7 hours to meet 1/2 way ... most of the time for several days every few weeks) ... seemed to drag out all summer until I was ready for the great solo moment in my own gyro!
Frustrating wind conditions & winter & many true airworthy & aviation quality issues had to be addressed ..... meanwhile instead of going for sport-pilot ...I ended up working towards full private pilot ... but via the hard/expensive way in gyro only as I have no desire to fly wings ... then last year's - near-disaster on Mother's Day eve when my pitch pivot bolt disintegrated while doing some - mains-balancing & low-hopping practice!
All 2013 flying season spent rebuilding ...... now it's almost winter again & my primary instructor (full CFI) could no longer sign off any more training & preparations for going to the DPE- due to the FAA - investigation/ railroading fiasco after Scott Adair's fatal un-transitioned solo flight in his Dominator after dual training in MTO's & signed to solo by the SECOND CFI (not mine!) :der:
... with NO TRANSITION TRAINING from Dual gyro to the single!
You are in good hands with Steve ... HE WILL TRANSITION you correctly ( As did my CFI into my Aurora)..... as he told Scott .. he would - but impatience got the better of Scott & he did it his-way ... & sadly paid the ultimate price!
2014 ... an endless wicked winter .... Kansas winds that were always against my low-time pilot/student limits ....:Cry: ... frustration going on & on!
FINALLY ...In this last week ... a little break in my "endless obstacles"
& the endless brief sessions tethered close to the airport & runway on very rare right-condition days ...... it all came good & a big progress step ... with my first flight away! Yesterday I finally got to fly the 10NM out to the farm & overfly the home place & see how the landing-ground (under development!) looks from the air! :whoo:
Today I was all primed & set to do a 50mile XC leg ... for a pilot breakfast fly-in & the winds looked perfect all day ...... however the weather turned REALLY strange & went against all the forecasting & predictions & the winds were a NO-GO for me .....
hwell: ... another time!
Looking like i will have to go to Utah when I get these solo hours & cross country flights done ... to get my recommendation for going to DPE for the flight & oral test! There are many more new instructors around ... but many are sportCFI's & now I'm shooting higher!
The lack of a local
active gyro club( Jim,I & Earl ARE IT - for now!) is a BIG disadvantage ... we have been greatly blessed with all the help & expertise , encouragement & support for Jim & his problem-gyro from the Chapter 62 club .. alas a 12 hour drive ... needs a multiday commitment to justify the long trip .... but we have had SUCH good times down there & the fantastic people .. as Mark noted makes it all SO worth it!
You are not alone ..... IT
IS ALWAYS SOMETHING .... and then the next thing :violin: ..... so we just keep "whaken 'dem moles ... until they quit popp'n up " ... then we get to "be-the-bird"
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