Night flying takes skill and lots of practice to stay proficient. The Pacific Northwest gets very dark after 4:30PM in the winter which makes it the perfect place to regain your night currency.
A total of 5 trips around the pattern were made on this night; 2 touch and go's during twilight, followed by 3 night time full stop landings with taxi-back (greater than 30 min after civil sunset). There were 3 of us in the pattern that night. The video shows the first 3 landings, the 4th and 5th were too dark to film unfortunately.
Mountains, open ocean and night time are the three perils of flying here in the Pacific Northwest. I try to limit myself to 1 of 3 whenever possible, this flight tonight was to ensure if I run out of daylight on a return flight to KBLI we'd be current (Ginger and me) and live to fly another day. Night flying can be wonderful when done properly.
Before flying tonight I performed a thorough pre-flight of myself, all lighting outside and in, to be sure Ginger and I were airworthy for nighttime flying. I absolutely don't take any shortcuts with this kind of stuff. It was an absolutely great flight!!
Key takeaways from this video...
Skyhawk 12687, see you at BVS soon!
Flying at night is always amazing!
Our BLI controllers are great!
It sure gets dark here!!
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