Well after a pretty long break, I went flying last Saturday. It was an early morning flight, 0830 am to be exact. Since I hadn’t been flying in a while this was going to be a refresher lesson. We took off and headed out to the practice area. We went into slow flight and then did some stalls. After the stalls we tried a stall I hadn’t tried before.. A power off stall in a turn. It didn’t work out real well but I tried it…that needs more work. We then did steep turns, basically a 360 turn with a 45 degree bank. After that we went over to the Culpepper airport, and practice some touch and go’s…we did 4. the first two weren’t too good but the last 2 were right on. then it was time to head back into Manassas. The landing there was decent. Now I’m ready to move on to some ground reference maneuvers.
Well that’s all for this time…
Congrats on taking lessons. I just started a few weeks ago and have been up five times. My son, who turned 18 this summer is close to getting his certificate and is way ahead of me. It has been great but frustrating because I want to be good right away but there are lots of hours of practice for a reason. No one is smooth off the bat. Power on stalls threw me the other day and the plane fell off to the right both times because I wasn’t applying coordinated rudder control. I am looking forward to doing them again — and recovering properly, but the first one rattled me. We didn’t ease into it. Just a full, power on stall and they are a little more tricky than power off stalls. Congrats again. Keep on flying and greetings from Minnesota.