Solo Cross Country Flight Cessna 172 - Road to Private Episode 17

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Total logged time before this flight: 26.1 Hours

This is the video of a solo cross country flight from Fairmont, WV to Washington, PA (with a stop each way in Clarksburg, WV). This flight was tough to get, juggling bad weather and busy schedule, and this video features four spectacularly (fast) bad landings - including tailwind landings at KCKB, and a ridiculously low approach and touchdown (bounce) on the displaced threshold at 4G7. Good times!

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0:00 - Today's Flight Plan
1:14 - Setting Radios
1:57 - KCKB ATIS
2:26 - Taxi to 4G7 Runway 5
2:52 - Runway 5 Departure
6:25 - Leaving Fairmont Area CTAF Call
7:19 - Calling KCKB Tower
9:45 - TAILWIND Approach KCKB Runway 21
10:42 - Short Final (bad landing #1 with tailwind)
12:20 - Taxi back and squawk code
13:12 - Departing Runway 21 with Tailwind
15:23 - Calling Departure + Flight Following
22:24 - Overflying Fairmont Airport and My House
25:00 - Leaning Engine
26:57 - My theory on carb heat & mixture
30:03 - Crossing Waypoint #2
30:18 - Calculating True groundspeed with E6B
31:13 - KAFJ ATIS
32:13 - Setting up for a VOR Radial as a waypoint
33:56 - Calling Pittsburgh Approach
37:54 - Calling Washington CTAF
39:50 - Abeam
40:40 - Base Runway 27 KAFJ
41:26 - Final
42:18 - Short Final (Bad Landing #2)
44:11 - Return Trip Plan
45:08 - Runway 27 Departure
47:12 - Crosswind Departure CTAF Call
49:00 - Calling Pittsburgh Approach
51:15 - Calling Clarksburg Approach
53:28 - Leaning the Engine
56:08 - KCKB ATIS
57:40 - Talking to Tyler (Instructor!)
1:00:03 - Calling KCKB Tower
1:03:32 - Approach KCKB Runway 21
1:05:00 - Final (Bad Landing #3)
1:07:43 - Fairmont CTAF Conversation
1:12:40 - Abeam Fairmont Runway 5
1:14:04 - Final (Count the mistakes on final!)

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Airplane: 1966 Cessna 172G
Airport: 4G7 (Fairmont, WV)
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