Sloooooow flight
Today it was time for slow flight work. You know, mushing 60mph, slowly turning around your tail, power on and off stalls. And for the very first time I have to say that I start feeling the airplane, stalls were almost nonevent. Later I looked at the GPS track and it turned out that only doing power off stalls I lost over 200ft for the first try and around 100, maybe 125 for the next one. Power on stalls weren’t even clearly marked on the track, I had to look for them. Of course it doesn’t mean I’m a good pilot – it just means that combining my reaction and GPS lag (it stores point every 5 sec.) apparently it wasn’t that bad.
Later we tried some steep turns, and again – unlike last time when I tried them in Cherokee and I felt dizzy after first try this time I did two of them in each direction and I felt OK. The turns were bad, though. Oh they were nicely round but that isn’t what’s important in practicing steep turns is it? I know the trick how to execute perfect steep turn, somehow I have problems executing it this way at least for the first 100-120 degrees, then everything is fine but the damage has been done. Need more practice.
After all that fun we returned to the Green Castle for some landing work. I did 7 approaches (including two simulated emergency, with one go around) and at the end of the lesson Terry signed me again for solo for next 90 days.
1.1h/0.0h inst : 6 to/ldg logged
38.5h/0.8h inst : 236 to/ldg total
