I’m a little slow at writing this update, but two Saturdays ago I was doing the last of my initial introduction to air work. We practiced stalls, spins, as well as flight for range and endurance. We were going to do spiral dives, but after doing three stalls and two spins are started to get [...]
This lesson was a success! Much better than the last one. I did the pre-flight inspection myself. My instructor quickly checked things as well before we got started, but for the first time I was getting the plane ready pretty much on my own. I did not find any snags on the plane, there was [...]
Last Friday was lesson number three. It started off alright. We talked about range and endurance during the preparatory ground instruction we talked about range and endurance, slow flight, stalls and steep turns. We tried to check the weather on the school computer, but Firefox was being unresponsive (the computer was running out of virtual memory, and [...]
I now have lesson number two completed. First of all, one thing I’ve noticed about this flight was that I did not feel nauseous at all. Perhaps it was all the peppermint tea I’ve been drinking, the fact I wore sunglasses this flight, or maybe it was because my flight instructor was working me a lot harder this lesson [...]
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Posted 27 June 2011
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Last Friday I was finally able to complete my very first flight. It went very well, and wasn’t that bad. Occasionally, I felt a bit nauseous from the quick altitude changes, but other than that it was good. Flying behind the controls of a small plane was an entirely new experience; almost like being in a magical Disney [...]
