1.2 Hours Dual; 3 Landings; KGNV (Local)
Today I combined a rental checkout at University Air Center with a Garmin G1000 IFR checkout. Overall the whole process was pretty smooth. The instructor and I spent about 30 minutes in their Redbird flight simulator to get a brief introduction to the IFR procedures of the G1000, which surprisingly enough consisted of using the "procedures" key to select, load and activate approaches.
Next we went out to the airplane, which was a 2008 Cessna 172S with a GFC 700 autopilot. After preflighting we took to the air for a little maneuvering. The instructor had me do steep turns in both directions, slow flight to a power-off stall and simulated power failure.
To finish out the day I did two approaches under the hood and three landings for good measure. Both times we did the RNAV (GPS) + LPV 7, but the instructor vectored me into the approach from two different directions. The first approach was hand-flown, the second was fully coupled with vertical guidance. As far as landings were concerned, the high-wing came back no problem, the first was a tad firm, but the second may have been my best landing ever, we didn't even know we were down.
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