I am sending this about a week late, so just read it a week back in time…
Today I rented the plane and explored the region around Huntsville. First I flew north to Fayetteville to see if I could find the airport. It was pretty easy to find. Then I turned around and flew down the east side of the parkway over south huntsville until I was a few miles from the river. Then I turned east and flew over the hills (Monte Sano, Green Mountain, etc). I flew around there for a while seeing what there was to be seen. Then I flew North and found Moontown. I landed there once and then decided to fly back to Fayetteville and try some landings there. There was a bit of a crosswind and I landed twice. Both landings were a little crooked because of the crosswind and myself not compensating enough or in sync with the gusts, so I felt the wheels screech a bit, but there wasn’t any bounce. Then I flew back to Madison county and landed there. I flew for 2 hours. There was very little traffic–the only airplane I saw was also at Madison county. I took off without setting my transponder to altitude because I got distracted by getting my heading indicator aligned with the runway–I got it set about 5 minutes after takeoff, hopefully nobody was worried.
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