u/FreestyleTerrain

Planning a short return trip to Japan and looking for recommendations on how to spend our last few days. We really enjoyed the natural side of Japan on our last trip, so we hope the Izu area is a good spot to explore more of that!

Current plan is:

Rent a car and spend 3–4 days exploring the Izu Peninsula

After that, we’ll have another 2–3 days before flying home out of Narita, and we’re not sure where to go next.

This is our second trip to Japan, so we’ve already done a lot of the major Tokyo sights and don’t necessarily need more big-city time — already did most of Kyoto/Osaka too. Top contenders seem to be Fuji Five Lakes, Kamakura, and Nikko, though open to any hidden gems you guys might know about!

EDIT:
Another thought was to take the Shinkansen to Hiroshima (looks like about 5 hrs) then fly back to Narita from Hiroshima airport to connect back. Not sure how feasible this is…

Flying a 182L for my commercial checkride and struggling to get consistent accuracy on my PO180s — I always either float past the 1000 footers or come up just short.

Right now I set my glide at 70 kts and make a somewhat tight base-final turn with 20 degrees flaps. That gets me about a 800fpm decent rate, and I’ll add a slip if I look too high. Finding that when I slip, it kinda throws off my aim point and I have a hard time judging what my glide angle should look like coming out of it.

I have about 300 hrs in this plane, yet this feels very new to me as I almost always approach with a little bit of power up until I’m just above the runway. Anyone else experience this? Would appreciate any helpful tips, especially for the Skylane!