Folks, just started flying after spending most of life with eyes skyward. All is going well and my instructor is please with our progress to date. Firstly, I feel its important to note I have only logged 5 hours so am at the very bottom of a very enviable ladder.
In recent lessons we have focused on turns. We have reviewed Straight & level, in climb and decending turns. We have also covered off slow turns, turns in a clean config and turns with flaps. We have also covered stall recovery mid turn; so suffice to say we have done a few turns!!
Technique which I am taught is to roll the wings, wait for for about 20o pitch, apply slight back pressure to maintain altititude and continue roll to 30o - apply rudder as necessary. I am told to roll out onto course about 10o before reaching assigned heading. I can enter the turn at a given altitude (say 3000) and leave the turn on assigned heading and am flying at 3000. However, throughout the course of the turn I find I am at any point +/- 200 feet from assigned altitude - but always correct before 'rolling out' and always make it out on correct heading. I get the feeling I am making life difficult for myself as I seem capable to judge the distance and the time I have left i.e. if im at 2800' passing 050 for 090 I know I have 40 degrees or about 25-30 seconds to get back level. I always seem to judge this ok. I seem to be
very dependent on attitude indicator to check my level of bank and VSI to check if im level - I believe this is bad habit picked up from years of Flight Sim!
Basically, what im wondering is if everyone here can judge their angle of bank and maintain altitude simply by the attitude of the nose relative to the horizon?
Any tips would be great as I feel my next lesson my instructor my just cut his losses, open the door and kick me out!!