Advice on flying C150
Hey there!
I hadn't flown for a year until last weekend when I went flying with an instructor in a C150 in order to get back into shape. Last year I flew a hell of a lot on tailwheel, stick and rudder types.
Despite being rusty my flying was still fine but I could not land the 150 for the life of me. I found this very embarrassing as I learn't to fly on one 5 years ago. Being used to tandem or single seater cockpits, I found the side by side aircraft very difficult to line up on the centreline on approach. But the biggest thing was setting her up on base leg.
I was reducing power from 2350 to 15/1600 rpm after turning base, then once within Vfe, adding two stages of flap. I found that it was a struggle to get the speed down to the 65kt that I had been told to approach at (I could have sworn that when I last flew this plane 5 years before we used to come in at 60). The wind was 14kt and 10 degrees from port.
A very good instructor once went through with me on how to set up small Cessnas on base but I can't remember those words of wisdom. Any advcie to save my embarrasment?
Bill