Finally after almost 11 months, I finally went flying again. It was a pretty nice day, though it got rather warm toward the end. Temp 30°C, wind calm, alt 29.92, very hazy, 1.6 on the Hobbs. Hold at APE, followed by 3 approaches VOR-A@KVTA, GPS28@KLHQ, GPS27@KVTA, with 2 landings at KLHQ and 2 landings at KVTA. Happy to be back in the air. Hand flew nearly all of it, the auto-pilot appears to be on the fritz. IPC completed, so I’m legal to rent, legal to carry passengers, and legal to fly IFR. KVTA is in the top middle with the red, yellow, and green (landings and trips around the pattern). The hold is the purple loop at the top left. KLHQ is at the bottom left (landing and trip around the pattern). That little bump in the middle was when I turned on the autopilot heading back to do the GPS28@KVTA and it tried to do S-turns around the actual GPS track. Harold is going to have the auto-pilot looked at by the maintenance people.
