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Lesson #15

04-06-2016 - Flight lesson no #15.

R-22 G-OFAS, Capt. Tony Trigg, EGKA, local

Weather: Wind 33005KT 8000 Bkn 009 Q1017mb

Flight details:

Depart at 11:15. Arrival at 12:20

Flight Duration: 1.1hrs. Total Flying time: 16.3 hrs

Exercises: 13 / 14

Sortie - Transitions, take-off, departure and landing approaches and circuits.

Pre-flight briefing

This was a continuation of previous lesson so no additional briefing was necessary (see lesson #14)

The Flight:

This flight was again from Whisky following the 02 left hand helicopter circuit which follows the 02 tarmac runway but keeping to the west of it at all times.

Description of the 02 LH circuit:

Climb out from Whisky starting from 45kts building to 60kt with increased power you pass over the A27 towards Lancing college. Following the river Adur, again on the west side, river to the right, you go straight until the 2nd bend of the river. The circuit then takes a 90 degree turn left to the west, there’s new path on the ground forming a easy visual reference point (VRP). 

An intersection of this path and the edge of a field forms a VRP for turning 90 left to the south.

On the south leg the VRPs are the circular ring of trees on top the hill. Here you’re aiming to go over to the west, somewhere between 500 and 600 ft at around 60-70kt.

On passing the ring of trees, the next VRP is the house on top of the next hill. Here you’re aiming to the left of it and passing the house on the east side.

The next VRP is the North East corner of the training grounds. Head for this an then aim to traverse the training grounds diagonally, from the NE corner to the SW corner.

On approach to the SW corner, the descent will start. So most important. 

* CARB HEAT ON FULL *

Now on reaching the SW corner of the training ground, ideally around 60kt 500-600ft, lower the collective to start the descent and start immediately to roll left. 

Follow the circular path, over the fields and some caravans/static homes to perform a 180 degree turn. During this turn it’s important not to turn too tight, lose speed/height or to turn too wide and risk encroaching on the 02 fixed wing approach to the tarmac runway.

Getting the turn and maintaining the right speed/height reduction is key to this part.

Soon, Whisky comes back into sight as the final part of the turn sees you heading north again.

From here a visual approach using the technique of maintaining a ‘fast walking pace’ over the ground should bring you down to the training area. 

Keep in mind the direction of the wind such that you may prefer to turn into it as you reach the ground.

I notice I tend to focus and thus fall short of the training area, reaching the start of it, rather than the central part. However, a little fine tuning of the descent path soon sees the termination of the descent path in the central area.

With so much going on it’s easy to forget to turn the carb heat off as you approach the ground. 

It’s not advisable to try to adjust the carb heat during the hover, so if you forget, either leave it as-is or make a landing so that adjustments can be made safely.

My version of the circuit map

GPS tracks:

Stats:

METAR info:

The machines:

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The Kenkon. Badge of the IOGKF.

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Black Belt Cont.

I am becoming increasingly nervous about this grading on Sunday! There is only one more training session before the final test this weekend and after that it's literally just me against myself until Sunday.

It's as if that's it, finally after all of this training I have only 5 days until the real judgement and I'm getting really nervous now! The website for our karate association is the EGKA and it really is a very good association because its run not for profit. Which means that all of the fees it takes go towards getting the best instructors from around the world flown in to teach karate which is very beneficial!!

The EGKA is a founder member of the IOGKF which is the (International Okinawan Goju-ryu Karate Federation). The leader of the Federation being Shihan Morio Higaonna. Youtube it, he is very impressive even though he is now in his seventies. Living proof that you are never too old to train!!

All interesting if you are interested in martial arts,

Maybe in future I'll try and make posts a little bit less karate based!

More soon!

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Black Belt Training

I practice a fairly uncommon martial art, a type of karate, called Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate. I started training when I was about 8 years old and attained the grade of 4th Kyu (Purple Belt) when I was 12. At this point I decided that I'd rather play Rugby than do Karate because my dad does karate too and he was probably being a bit of a pushy parent, so I left ...

...Anyways, things worked out the way they always do. I quit the Rugby. When I was 17 I made the decision to go back to karate training and I did. After 6-8 months of training I re-graded to 4th Kyu and since then I have been striving towards the ultimate goal. The Black Belt.

Goju-Ryu isn't just like some more comercial forms of martial art, they don't just give belts away willy nilly, for lack of a better phrase. The grading weekend is down in Bournemouth UK on the 9/10th of June. Im already nervous. It consists of 4 hours training on the Saturday, then an hours warm up on the Sunday, followed by 3 hours actually being graded in front of the EGKA's chief instructor Sensei Ernie Molyneux as well as other high gradesof at least 6th Dan's and above. This session is finished with 100 pressups, 100 situps and 100 squats. No easy task. Then after this there is a 30 minute paper on the history of our style of karate! Hard work!

I feel ready. I'm physically quite fit and know all that will be expected of me on the day. I know that I can succeed but there is always that niggling in the back of your mind saying

"What if Sensei thinks I'm not good enough?"

Hopefully this won't be the case!

Ill keep you posted.