A follow up to last week's video where I complete the ILS 29R into Modesto. Some mistakes were made, but I learned some things.

I do some IFR approaches today with some low cloud cover and fog.

The cameras didn't last for all 4, but I captured the first 2. Here is a VOR-A into Oakdale (O27). The airport went VMC while I was on my way there.

 

Part 2 of my San Francisco Bay Tour, Night Flight back into Tracy from Half Moon Bay

San Francisco Bay Tour and landing at Half Moon Bay at sunset in a Cessna Turbo Centurion

This weekend, I went to fly to Tahoe to take some video over the mountain and lake. When I experienced minor engine trouble. Cessna Centurion Turbo 210 Tracy, South Lake Tahoe, Stockton

I earned my private pilot certificate in June 2018, then I began building hours for the required 50 hours of cross country flying required to receive an instrument rating. On Saturday, I went for my instrument rating checkride. First things first was to go through all of the paperwork to ensure that everything was in order. Next we went through the oral portion and it was pretty uneventful.

This year, the wife and I had been discussing taking a trip someone for our anniversary. I had suggested we go on a cruise or travel some where, instead she recommended that I rent a plane and we fly ourselves somewhere. So I was looking for places to go that were reasonably close and that we hadn't been to before.

I decided since I worked on Thursday that I would rent the airplane from Palo Alto and fly to Tracy to pick her up on Thursday afternoon, we would stop for dinner and an overnight at Harris Ranch, then continue on to Catalina Island in the morning.

What an amazing day. Flew from Tracy to Redding (KRDD) for lunch. Had some amazing Chinese food at Peter Chu's Skyroom. Then on the way home, flew a "Bay Tour" over Golden Gate bridge, around Alcatraz then home.