I got to the airport yesterday and was told that the simulator was busted. No worries, we just hopped into a plane.

Did a short field with obstacle take off and almost just as soon my FI told me to put the foggles on.

The entire flight was done with the view limiting device. I only really knew where we are by the radio calls my FI were making. We did the flight test which I executed within tolerances. The only issue I had was that my rate one turn (a 360 …