{"id":2790,"date":"2019-08-17T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T23:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2019-08-17T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T23:48:19","slug":"chino-and-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Chino and Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I took some time Friday afternoon to polish take-offs and landings. I rambled off to the very hospitable Chino (KCNO<\/a>) airport for practice and Cable (KCCB<\/a>) for lunch. The last time I was out doing instrument practice, a couple of my roll-outs were wobbly. My safety pilot was happy to make excuses for me<\/a>, but I try to be honest with myself on these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chino is a lively GA airport with a couple parallel runways and active flight schools, so they were quite able to accommodate me. I flew out of Santa Monica, where they bill you by the landing<\/a>, and tucked into the pattern at Chino, where they’re free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chino is home to at least two air museums: Planes of Fame<\/a> and Yanks<\/a>. I mention it both because I’m a member and supporter of Planes of Fame and I got to share the pattern with Yanks 1936 Lockheed Electra<\/a>. What a beautiful plane. I took a couple pictures<\/a> of it, and it’s something to see in motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was trying out two things: flap use on take-off and landing roll-outs. The flap use is recommended in the Viking POH<\/a>, though not by my transition instructor. The POH recommends the flaps to keep a less nose-up attitude during take-off. After trying a few, it is noticeably different and visibility is arguably better. It’s also closer to the attitude on a go-around, which seems to make that process a little safer. I got to test that when I miscalculated how long the Electra would be on the runway. I’ll keep playing with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roll-outs were trickier. The Viking is squirrely enough on the ground that it’s worth keeping current with its handling. I used to be more aware of it on the take-off roll, but I’ve gotten very used to that. I think that made me more complacent on roll-out. Today’s practice got me more focused on it and my roll-outs were markedly improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um, except for the one at Cable. Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cable remains a great little uncontrolled – er, untowered – field. Maniac Mike’s<\/a> seems to be undergoing a renovation. It was open, though, and I got a decent meal. Sadly the patio was closed, so I didn’t get to sit out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winds were getting more variable when I got back to SMO, but the approach and landing were fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took some time Friday afternoon to polish take-offs and landings. I rambled off to the very hospitable Chino (KCNO) airport for practice and Cable (KCCB) for lunch. The last time I was out doing instrument practice, a couple of my roll-outs were wobbly. My safety pilot was happy to make excuses for me, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-blogbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}