The last Thursday of June my primary CFI and I attended a "Fly In" FAA seminar at Reno/Stead airport, KRTS. This is where the famous Reno Air Races are held. See my older post for pictures of last years event to give you an idea of the venue, then watch the video below as we land at the same airport.

The seminar was quite interesting as the subject was Stall/Spin Awareness, considering that just the previous day there was (as best anyone could imagine what happened since there were no witnesses) a stall/spin accident at my home airport as they were turning base to final. It's one thing to stall 3000' above the ground. Quite another to stall at 300'-600'.

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20100617/NEWS/100619910

I mentioned in my last post about the scheduling of my "phase check", which had been postponed 4 times due to weather this Spring-urary. And this last time it was a bad starter (I don't blame them) and the owner preferred us not to hand start it. Darn, there went my lesson in how to do that. So we spent 3 hours in the terminal and went over the pre-flight portion of the practical. She felt I was ready but still need to show her my skills in the air. So we are set for this Thursday. I'll let you know how it goes.

Matt