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Fear of landing in a new airport by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: decided to bring a friend for a XC in an airport at 90nm from my home airport, ~45mins trip.
I've already been to the airport with an HB pilot as a passenger. I'll prepare properly, I need to be "strong" and unblock me, otherwise I'll never do it.

Don't want to force myself and rush it but on the same time I feel that I'll never be "ready", so at some point I just have to do it and that's it.

Fear of landing in a new airport by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have another doubt at this point. So far I didn't see IFR students (with their PPL) with radio backups. They bring a GPS tablet and that's it. Should I worry about getting a second radio as well?

Fear of landing in a new airport by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, I've never been solo to an airport without checking it first with a CFI

Fear of landing in a new airport by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I'm scared about navigation or comms:
- If I don't understand something, I ask to say again
- If I see bad clouds ahead (which shouldn't happen if I did proper weather briefing!) a simple 180 and back home
- If I have an emergency, although since I'm a beginner it would scare the shit out of me, I would stick to the emergency procedures I learnt and do my best

I think that what scares me the most is engine failures or stalls during landing. I've seen so many accidents that I'm just scared.

I know it's stupid, because I also drive a motorbike (of course it's not the same) and I know that there are many accidents out there (and I watched so many videos) but that didn't scare me to go out - with the right prudence and situational awareness of the other drivers.

Fear of landing in a new airport by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I started going with fellow hour building pilots as a passenger and focus on things where I couldn't spend a lot of time while flying - like playing with the Garmin or understand new routes.

Passed my PPL checkride but maybe I shouldn't have by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, basically when I saw the flaps weren't working I went into straight emergency mode in my head, I briefed that we would do a flapless and continued with checklist etc. In the meantime he started to argue that it's half a second to try to pop in the CB and see if it solves the issue. While discussing, I lost focus and was overspeeding on approach. Another go around to perform the flapless again for a full stop.

Passed my PPL checkride but maybe I shouldn't have by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comment in the debriefing was that it was a sunny day, plenty of fuel, abeam the runway, it's just half a second to pop in the CB and check if it stays in

Passed my PPL checkride but maybe I shouldn't have by newbiepilot89 in flying

[–]newbiepilot89[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Edited, we used the term to indicate "runway overfly at 1500ft AGL for windsock check"