Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 11; Flight Crew Total 3168; Flight Crew Type 574
Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude
In the course of a bi-annual flight review; I think I may have descended below the altitude instructed by the tower at Goodyear Airport (GYR). The instructor on board conducting the flight review had requested a demonstration of a touch and go landing at GYR and a transition to Glendale Airport (GLE); 7 miles away; for a full stop landing.While climbing out of GYR on runway 21; I requested a transition to GEU and the controller approved the transition request and advised making a left hand departure and climb to 2500. I climbed to 2500 on the left crosswind leg and was going to clear the Delta airspace on the crosswind leg; however the CFI requested to fly directly to GEU. Outside the normal traffic pattern I turned on a downwind leg toward GEU. Intent on getting the GEU ATIS and checking the distance to GEU and the new tower frequency and preparing to change frequency I noted I had inadvertently permitted my altitude drop approximately 2200 feet and appeared this happened while still inside the GYR Class D airspace. Leaving the GYR Class D airspace and getting clearance into GEU Class D airspace happen to occur over a very short period of time as did the descent to GEU pattern Altitude. Lesson learned: I should have not let myself be intimidated by the CFI conducting the BFR; and exercised my prerogative; BFR or not; as pilot in command and flew out of the GYR airspace at the ATC requested altitude to a position that would have provided a suitable amount of time to descend and enter the GEU Class D airspace in a more organized and timely manner.
Commercial pilot on a flight review was instructed by ATC to hold 2;500 feet. While setting up for an airspace transition; the pilot inadvertently descended to 2;200 feet.