Pattern Flying in pictures

"A pictures is worth a thousand words"

Frederick R.Barnard

I'm flying with one of Shane's CFI's about once a week nowadays.  Shane and I'll will still do the cross country and night flying.  We decided it would be best for the weekly stuff to happen with an instructor other than him.  Due to the weather I haven't been able to solo again, but I'm crossing my fingers that we get a calm day soon!  The tricky part is getting a calm day that works with my schedule.  Iowa weather can be soo frustrating!    I thought I'd share some pictures of what I've been up to lately.
 FYI-  The instructor was flying while I was shooting!

Getting ready to take-off

and we're up

This is where I make my radio call "Pella Traffic 27Gulf is downwind for one six Pella"

 It's about here that I pull my my carb heat on, reduce my speed, and put 10 degrees of flaps on. I know this because the wing tip is directly across from the runway.  The picture below shows this a bit better.

View out the window while turning

One step closer to landing.  I love the sky in this picture.

You can see my pretty camera strap cover in the instruments

 I'm ALWAYS watching my airspeed!

On the base leg, getting ready to turn for final.

Lining up with the runway

Almost on the ground