Stalls.
Hello all,
Had my second recent lesson today. Was great fun. As my instructor was a little late for whatever reason, another offered to go through to full external flight check. So we spent 15 mintues or so going through those.
Once my instructor appeared we went to the briefing room which is when I discovered todays main topic - stalls! Was happy about that, being the adventurous type!
So we got into the A/C and did the normal, went to the runway, and took off. I was rather pleased with my take-off, although I still didn't manage to keep it on the runway heading.
After turning left (to the North) and climbed to 3000 ft, he asked me to stall it. I recovered, but not perfectly. We practiced some more both clean and with flaps and I eventually cracked the recovery so I was rather pleased with that!
My instructor had me working the radio - I kept forgeting to add my callsign to the message which was a little embarrassing but luckily there was a trainee controller dealing with us, who made a few mistakes as well!
On the way back to Newcastle, I was told to decend in a glide and find a field. I was on the downwind leg when I actually realised what he was making me do - the simulated emergency landing approach. This was fun, we were very low on finals when full power was applied and we climbed again.
And that was almost the end of the lesson apart from the landing. Oh, which was my first without any help! Was very pleased, I did part of the radio work, after holding for a minute I joined the circuit and took it all the way around, coming in to land. No problems really, directions from the instructor were needed when I decided to flare too early, but that wasn't too much of a problem and I managed to get it down! After a quick U-turn on the runway, I took it in, and parked it up!
Overall a great and fun lesson. Even though it isn't a massive milestone, I was pleased I managed to land without the instructor having to grab the controls at the last minute! So five hours down, 40 to go! Stalls in turns on Sunday, very much looking forward to it!
Cheers,
JW.