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Old 11th November 2007 | 18:47
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timzsta
 
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Well I flew with a student who hadn't flown for 3 months today. Got out his records and noted that it had been my intention to do circuits with him for his next lesson having completed stalling and slow flight. However wind was right on crosswind limits and student expressed a desire for a "revision" lesson. So thats what we went off and did. Some climbing, climbing turns, descending turns, straight and level, descent with flap.
We returned to the airfield and he did a nice good of configuring on base and was doing fine on the approach with some guidance from me. I briefed him at about 500ft in the flare you will need right rudder, left aileron etc etc all the usual patter. He was doing quite a satisfactory job no cause for alarm and then at about 5ft above the runway he announced "you have control" and let go of everything.
Caught me somewhat by suprise....but I had been taught to "cover the controls" as my FIC instructor put it. Had I been "sitting on them" might be filling in paperwork instead of being on here.
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