Log entry one.

Log entry's will be my way of trying to keep the blog interesting by giving a brief overview of my recent flights.
The flight today was my second with my new instructor. Our goal was to Fly an ILS and VOR partial panel and finish things off with a GPS approach. things started fairly well with my trip to the airport. I got authorized for the flight and was dispatched a 172. I preflighted the aircraft and waited for my instructor. The forecast had been for 8,000ft cloud ceilings and 10 miles visibility at our departure airport (KBTL). Once in the aircraft we received the ATIS and found that the clouds had dropped to 3,200ft but this was still good enough to conduct the approaches under VFR flight rules. The winds however were directly from the east and KBTL was using runway 05 and nearby KAZO was using runway 17. This meant that we would be unable to fly an ILS so we decided to start with a VOR approach. While being vectored to the VOR 05 into BTL however we encountered extremely low visibility and had to request an early vector to the final approach course. Due to the unexpected weather we were unable to conduct the other approaches using partial panel (due to being required to maintain VFR while simulating Partial Panel) we told tower that we would be making a full stop approach and landing and returned to BTL where i made a soft but relatively flat landing. After this we debriefed the flight and will attempt to finish our objectives on our flight tomorrow.