Pascal DucheminKCCR O88 KCCRBFR
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I was due for my BFR on March 2018. After spending a couple hours doing ground review with my instructor, we took off towards the practice area. Since I had been flying quite a bit with my instructor, we focused primarily on things which I would not practice on usually. After a couple steep turns, I did a turning power off stall to the left. Then did a few power on turning stalls, these are the ones I usually dread the most due to to high attitude experienced. It would take me a little while to stall the plane, just not pulling hard enough on the yoke, but after 2 or 3 tries I think I got it. We were close to O88 (Rio Vista) when we practice the simulated engine failure. I decided to land on runway 25 even though the winds were more favorable for runway 33. The main reason was that the winds were only called at 7 knots and runware 25 is longer than 33. We practiced a method that my instructor had just showed me while doing ground review, which was to enter the opposite end of the beginning of the downwind leg (think crosswind) at 2000 ft above field alitude. We took off again towards the western side of the practice area and practiced another simulated engine failure. This time over a random field. Well the field wasn't that random, I picked one that looked long and appropriate and noticed a group of animals. We assumed these were sheeps or cows. However, when around 200ft above the ground and on final, we realized these were deers who look quite surprise to see a plane coming towards them. The expression deers in the headlight applied here, these guys barely moved and kept stearing. After climbing back up, we practice a few "turn around a point" maneuvers and headed back to Concord. Checkride Passed !
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