I had my first lesson in the cap 10b at Sherburn today, after my lesson on monday was rained/blown off.
First impressions were fantastic. It climbed like a rocket, up to 1000ft, were we turned south away from Linton MATZ, for a bit of general handling, a few turns and stalls. (you get a LOT of wing drop on a power on stall) and even a couple of loops and barrel rolls
I struggle to compare it to the cessna, the controls are light, really well ballanced, and super effective, and it cruises at 130kts, combiened with almost glider like visibility.
After 40 minutes, i returned to the circuit, for a few touch and goes, which were a little of a handful in the strong wind, and taxiing accross the wind or downwind leaves you peddaling like a deranged cyclist.
After lunch, once the wind dropped down to 16kts or so, I did a few more dual circuits, before going off solo for a few circuits myself.
Had a fantastic day, and i definately think im going to finish the rest of my ppl in this aircraft. Its a bit more expensive than youre average spamcan, at £120 per hour, but its definately worth it. The only big problem is how silly you look until you can go and get the daft grin surgically removed from your face.
I had only done the first 9 hours of my ppl before today (plus some motor glider hours), so everyone reading this who has a ppl, but only ever flown in pa28/c150s should have no problems at all.
If everyone could just avoid going down there too often, until i finish my ppl, as the availability is currently very good, and i dont want it to decrease to much
Ninja Bill