Day 10
The first flight in the Arrow is today and my usual instructor doesn’t work on a Sunday, so today a new aircraft and a new instructor. We sat in the Arrow and he showed me the equipment etc, and then we were off. The aircraft is much heavier to handle than the Cessna but a lot more stable in the air. We climbed out over the water where we began a familiarisation flight. We did steep turns, slow flight, clean stalls and climbing at Vx and Vy. This was a fairly short flight of 60 minutes and we returned to land on runway 32. The landing was quite good, although the aircraft drops like a stone when you pull the power off. I was a little low on the final part of the approach, but a little extra power helped us to land just after the numbers. Only one flight today, so a few us are off to the beach for the afternoon, just to chill out a bit. Tomorrow I start some of the more advanced manoeuvres and so it will be another evening of checklists and drills.