#flight lesson

[fidjiefidjie]

😉 "Flight Lesson" 😃

Ironic sculpture 🫠 © Matthias Verginer de 2016

Bel après-midi 👋

[basilesroom]

The funniest moment of my life is telling my flight school chief I won't be able to make a flying a lesson because I'll be on a plane. a /big/ one.

[basilesroom]

Flight lesson report:

Hours today : 1.1

Hours total : 50

So I didn’t solo today. Again.

I came in, and we realized there was a crosswind, it wasn’t enormous but it was present.

———> a crosswind is when the wind is perpendicular to the runway. Usually we take off from a headwind, as in, it’s coming straight towards us, but a crosswind pushes your either left or right so you need to know how to adjust so you actually land on the runway

———> for a crosswind Landing you need to turn aileron into the wind and opposite rudder, so if the wind is from the left, turn left and press the right pedal.

So my landings weren’t the best, but I’m not used to crosswind landings but they weren’t bad.

We also did a slow approach which was fun. It’s really great to fly with both hands on the yoke I’ve realized, much more comfortable.

———> a slow approach is simulating an engine loss, so you pull out the power completely, pitch for the best glide speed which, in a Cessna 172, is 68 knots and turn to make the runway. When you’re sure that you can reach it, start deploying flaps, pitch down and land as normal.

Those are fun because you don’t need to worry about how much power you have, it’s a load off my mind.

That was it, it was otherwise fun, hopefully next time I can solo

[basilesroom]

I live for that view tbh Thanks for all the wishes it paid off!! I did great!! There was no wind but still I lowkey freaked out when my instructor covered the heading and attitude indicator because I rely heavily on that (but I’m not supposed to) but it was actually great I looked outside all the time to make sure I was parallel and perpendicular to the runway, I didn’t bother about how far I was pitching besides the « four fingers above the dash to the numbers » rule which ensures a stabilized approach all the way down. Now here’s what I need to remember for next time: 1. On final approach keep the pitch constant, if I’m too low or too slow just add power, remove it if the opposite 2. For a touch-and-go, flaps up full power 3. For a go-around, full power, flaps to 10 degrees, then flaps up. 4. For a full landing, keep the flaps until off the runway and don’t slam on the brakes. I had 4 landings today, one of them was absolutely perfect, one was a go around because wind pushed me off center at the last moment but that’s alright. I realize this probably makes no sense to anyone but me....

[eag1e98]

True Flight.docx

Microsoft Word Document

So for the T-birds fandom I thought I'd share a story. This was a project I did in highschool over imagery. It's about my first aerobatics flight with my old boss. Since one of the irrelief prompts @gumnut-logic posted is over a flight lesson I thought I'd add fuel per se. It's also the first time I pulled Gs and as my grandpa always told me, you lose your virginity twice, once to your lover and again to an airplane (he was a fighter pilot and talks like one). So enjoy the flying imagery.

And here is a pic of my boss and I in front of the bird

[eag1e98]

This is my favorite picture. Debby Rihn Harvey, a umpteen medal winning aerobatics and airshow pilot, gave me a free aerobatics flight for my 18th birthday. I was training at her flight school in a Cessna 172. I was also working weekends at the flight school as a lineman. This pic was taken after the flight. She joked with my flight instructor about how that smile never left my face

[basilesroom]

Flight lesson report:

Hours today: 2.2

Total hours: 56.2

Right!

So, I had my second solo today. To the practice area. I went over the beach and flew around for a few minutes, took some pictures it was great fun. I tried to maintain alitude and heading as best as I could to practice. It went fine.

Then I returned to the airport, it was going to be a straight in final to the runway so I lined myself up way ahead of time and got ready for a smooth landing.

However. I never got my clearance to land. I can’t actually touch down without it and it led up to me being four hundred feet up, asking for a clearance and getting ignored in favor for a guy doing position reports. So I had to go around.

My next landing was perfect. And I taxied on to the taxiway. But then again I got ignored. I don’t know what was up with atc today but I didn’t like it at all. Made me stressed. Not good

Then on my last landing. Holy crap. I thought I was doing good I really did. But for some reason I bounced. And I bounced on my left wheel and I got off the center line. A lot. I almost flipped over.

I have no idea what I did I am so shaken up.

My instructor saw it, said I handled it pretty well but still.

My next flight is a cross country with an instructor and the next two will be alone.

I can definitely wait for those.

[placegame]

I flew a plane today ✈️

I feel like everything else is going to seem boring for the next while...