I finally made the solo flight to Orlando Executive today. 1.3 hours flight, flying N1525F again. I followed Interstate 50 from Titusville all the way into Orlando, but the radio was quite busy so it took me some time (and a 360) to get in proper touch with Tower. I was worried about entering the airfield, with light winds around 040, I’d go straight in the way of departing traffic of runway 07. And airspace class B surrounding the airport wasn’t helping either. But besides some hesitation in communication, everything went smoothly as I joined left downwind and followed some fixedwing (skywagon?) and was,then put down as #3 after a Cessna on long final. There was some more fixedwing behind me so I had to make a nice final doing about 50-600 knots, flare and just touch the runway with the skids just in time before Tower told me to depart without delay. Rest of flight was smooth and uneventful. Besides some slow guy taxiing to park in front of me back at KTIX. Can’t blame him though.

Check out this video I bumped into on YouTube, it’s a 1st person view of simulated engine failure followed by a fulldown landing with the engine idling throughout the exercise. It’s performed on my training airport (Spot 2 in 36 configuration) using one of the helis I fly. It’s a good insight into some of the stuff I do for training, although in my case we recover in hover instead of making a fulldown landing. Bit I’ve done those a few times before. (Clarification: I had nothing to do with this particular video)