No posting for a week! Are we all on holiday?
OK here's mine...
I got the chance to go up in a C150 Aerobat at the weekend. From Humberside airport. It was supposed to have been a pleasure flight / trial lesson but the recipient wasn't keen so we did a deal and I got the voucher.
A really different aircraft to my usual PA28, so small, compact and light. Humberside airport was fun too - visiting somewhere of this size for the first time as a pilot in training was interesting. I'd already checked up on the Pooleys for the layout and radio and was ready to go.
The principles of the pre-flight check, taxiing and handling were all the same but the takeoff run was quite different to what I'm used to. Full throttle then... take off. Where was the ground run??? I expect to watch the speed increase, runway disappearing, but no, this was like a balloon - straight up and in the air.
A bit wobbly and twitchy in flight, but much more of a sensation of 'flying' if you understand. I also learned to counter wing drops with opposing rudder. Something I've never made the concious effort to do in the PA28 due to its stability. So that was very useful point to pick up.
Cruising speed was excruciatingly slow. It would have been quicker to land, get in the car, and drive. But then I wouldn't have been given the opportunity to take some great photos of the Humber Bridge and other sites of interest for friends and family in the locality.
R/T was a bit rusty partly due to the poor comms set in the plane (or maybe I'm spoilt usually), and that I have my routine so ingrained from LBA.
Approach was fun, with a Dash as the number 1 and being told to delay for wake vortex - regular readers will recall my last encounter with that! So I made for a very wide bearth and aimed to land beyond the touch down point of the Dash a tip given to me on this board previously.
Touchdown was so smooth, it felt much easier and more focussed than in the PA28 which I wasn't expecting as I felt the C150 would be much more susceptible to the light crosswind.
So now I have an entry in the log book for an additional type and would definitely be interested in doing some more Cessna flying in future.