heya. 2nd lesson under my belt and I feel as if i really learnt so much today. the first lesson I had a bit of a foggy memory of what happened etc because there was so much to take in but with this second lesson I had a few personal goals to understand and master trim and rudder.
I started by taxiing to the runway. unfortunatly I kept trying to turn with the yoke and resulted in me snaking left and right the whole way to the start point, over compensating with the rudder. when aligned on the runway I aided the instructor by pulling up at 55kt and maintaining 10 degrees. After levelling at 2k i asked about yaw effect on turning as I wanted to master the rudder on turning left and right and know what to feel for. Still need to remember to add a little rudder next time so thats a personal target for then.
After that I mastered trim which I knew I would fathom pretty quickly and feel confident to use now.
We then looked at some other basic effects of slow/fast flying. all of which seemed pretty obvious to me. then I spent a while following simple instructions ie climb 500 ft level off trim and maintain speed and height then turn west down 500 ft and stright and level.
At this point I felt that I was really able to be in control of the aircraft instead of it being in control of me. i had gone from timid movements of the yoke to purposeful and planned movements.
we entered a busy circuit at shoreham and came into land. I aided with aligning up to the runway until about 50ft before the instructor quickly took over.. lol
I taxieed back to the parking space much more accuratly this time although I received feedback to use the brakes next time.
booked another lesson for this morning but has just been canx due to cloud at 900 so i think im going to have to do a sicky on a fine day during the week! hehe
on another note my instructor told me hes leaving so ive got the chief instructor from now on rather than a student one. I imagine this will be much better for me in terms of instruction but I do worry about being less relaxed possibly?
stevo