It’s the long Memorial Day weekend, and I’m going to try and get a couple of flights in as well as visit the Air Force Museum with some friends of ours. Today we stayed in the pattern for the first time, doing 12 landings. I did OK, but I need to get better about pulling […]
Read MoreSo my instructor was reading my blog this week, and decided to make me do more steep turns to the left. Therefore I decided to just lay down the law and crush them! Actually today was a pretty good day, and I actually performed some of the maneuvers to test standards, and showed some real […]
Read MoreSo I was starting to kind of get the hang of it today, so Pete decided to crush me with steep turns. Wow, do I suck. Well, I actually sort of got the hang of them to the right, but for some reason doing them to the left was like trying to solve the Rubik’s cube. One […]
Read MoreMore of the same. Seriously, I am getting better, but apparently we’re going to keep doing slow flight, stalls, ground reference maneuvers, and emergency procedures until I’m within test standards before we move to other topics, and that may take awhile. I can tell I’m getting better, but I’m just not there yet.
Read MoreI’ve been out of town all week on business, so this was the first time I could get in the air since last weekend. We did 1.2 hours of slow flight and stalls as well as emergency procedures, including one simulated engine out to the runway. I’m getting better, which is good, because the slow […]
Read MoreLesson 4, and Pete pulled the first “engine out on take-off” drill. Big laughs had by all. 😉 More slow flight today, along with stalls, both power on and off, as well as clean and dirty. I felt I was doing better today, but I’m still chasing the airplane, at least when I change power […]
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