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2nd Lesson
Well, just got back from my 2nd flying lesson.
It was a perfectly clear day. Not a cloud to be seen. A little blustery on the ground, but nothing major. Today, I did my first take-off. I wasn't expecting it to be such an intense experience. It was much twitchier than I was expecting. Not really sure what I was expecting to be honest. Anyway, barrelled down the runway, and at 50kts gently pulled the stick back. Up we went. Pretty much nailed the climb rate which I was pleased about. I had been worried about pulling back too hard, or not enough. The air was fairly rough for the first 500ft, but then settled down, with the exception of a few hefty reminders that the wind was still about, thrown in for good measure. It had been just over 2 weeks since my first lesson, due to bad weather the previous weekend.After about 10 minutes or so, my instructor was satisfied I was once again comfortable with the handling of the a/c, and we moved onto todays lesson. Climbing and descending. We did about 3 step climbs, and she was satisfied I was understanding the concept well. After the 3rd one, I was feeling confident with it. Same with descents. I actually enjoyed the descents for some reason. It's hard to explain why I felt that way. I think I maybe felt like it was ME flying, rather than the plane flying. You know what I mean? I know I AM flying the plane, but it's hard to describe. Maybe it was because the power was down, and I could hear more, I don't know. Next was climbing turns and descending turns. Didn't really have any trouble with these, again, I enjoyed the descending turns a great deal! :-) Lastly, we covered medium turns and steep turns. Medium turns were fine, as most of my turns so far have been a bit closer to medium turns than shallow turns anyway! ;-) Steep turns were a little more difficult. On the first one, I lost some altitude, but on the second attampt I was within the 40-50ft tollerance she allowed me. Was getting a little more blustery by this stage too, so half way through a turn, mother nature would say hello and push my nice 30 degree turn into a 45 degree turn for a brief second. So, now I have a total of 1.9 hours, with the next lesson booked for next weekend. Next lesson is Stalls, providing the weather affords us a high cloud ceiling. If not, it's landings apparently! My instructor says she thinks I'm progressing sufficiently well enough to proceed to the next steps so I must be doing ok. :-) One thing I did notice, and I commented on it with my instructor, is that I don't feel that I am using the rudders enough because I can't physically feel any movement with my feet. She told me that I am moving them, and that it only requires very small movements, and the a/c is responding to my miniscule inputs just nicely. Maybe my shoe soles are just too thick? :-) Crash Lander |
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