The wind looked most favorable today at Watsonville, so I got to add another new airport to my list. It's always fun to fly over the hills to the coast so we headed out from Palo Alto toward Watsonville, pausing to do a few maneuvers on the way. Dave showed me a trick with the trim that might help my steep turns to the right. Basically, as you start the turn, you make two quick turns of the trim wheel from top to bottom. This helps to add some nose-up trim and makes it easier to hold the angle. For some reason, I have little trouble with left steep turns, but right always screws me up. The trim seemed to help.
Watsonville was interesting. I've actually been there on the ground for an airshow a couple years ago, but I didn't recognize it at all flying in. I'll have to go back to my airshow pictures and see if I can orient myself.
This was another good lesson on pattern work and landings, plus it's an uncontrolled airport, so lots of watching out for other planes in pattern.
Aircraft: 669TW
Landings today: 3
Total landings: 13
Today's flight: 1.8 hours
Total hours: 24.7
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