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Help With My training
Last Friday, I went up for an introductory flight lesson out of the San
Carlos airport. WOW!!!!!! I have been dreaming about learning to fly since I was in my teens. All the time I was in the air the lines of that famous poem kept going through my head "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth.........". When we landed (I didn't want to ever come down :-)) the instructor asked me if I thought I would be interested in flying and I told him that wild horses couldn't stop me now and proceeded to sign-up for two flight days the following week. I had my second flight day, this afternoon, practicing a variety of turns while maintaining (or making attempts to) altitude. One question I had for the instructors out there - what I seemed to find more awkward than anything was steering the nose wheel using my feet on the rudder pedals. The people in the control tower must have thought I looked like a wounded bird taxing out to hold position before takeoff. Is there some 'trick' to getting the hang of this, so often I would be tempted to reach up and turn the control yoke but resisted the temptation (due to its futility). Once again, thank you all for your posts on this newsgroup. I finally just made myself go out and start. I fly again, on Friday and will keep you posted. Meanwhile I am going to pour over some of the aviation training books to review some of the things I learned today. Just starting out, but I am so excited! |
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