Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:12 pm
#1854532
Yesterday's lesson?
Well first of all I took the advice from @TopCat . So I did some programming - honestly. If you search 'do a barrel roll' on google you'll see my aviation-themed work (or someone else's ). Then I took the other bit of advice and rode a unicycle. Now I have grazed elbows and knees.
After that I got down to serious taxiing on the grass, down to RWY 08. This meant that I had to re-think the turning points for the circuit.
Anyway, TO is less fraught now. I am confident on the TO run, happy to glance down at ts&ps and ASI, and rotation was appropriate. I even managed to unwind the into-wind aileron without too much ado.
I didn't do that well on the circuits, lots of small errors or slowness to act but weirdly it felt more in control (this a/c is not as high revving and sounded like I was expecting so that helped). I was still annoyed that it is not coming together as I hoped! Silly things like edging in towards the runway on Downwind (like a moth to a flame). There wasn't that much wind early on in the lesson to cause drift and I did it 3 out of 5 times. Doh.
I also struggled to get 67kts on climb-out a couple of times. Have done that correctly plenty of times before but it was more than a bit ragged this lesson. I guess capacity overload pushed it out of the door.
One approach was way too high on turning Final but I did get that sorted and actually crabbed in once when the wind picked up a bit
De-brief was fair - I was a bit hesitant at times (interpretation - too much time thinking about it rather than doing it!) and I need to work on trimming correctly, but my TO and go-around was good.
Frustrating though, when I know what I should be doing.
Oh well, back there tomorrow. Had a look at the nearest TAF and expect RWY 08 again.
Well first of all I took the advice from @TopCat . So I did some programming - honestly. If you search 'do a barrel roll' on google you'll see my aviation-themed work (or someone else's ). Then I took the other bit of advice and rode a unicycle. Now I have grazed elbows and knees.
After that I got down to serious taxiing on the grass, down to RWY 08. This meant that I had to re-think the turning points for the circuit.
Anyway, TO is less fraught now. I am confident on the TO run, happy to glance down at ts&ps and ASI, and rotation was appropriate. I even managed to unwind the into-wind aileron without too much ado.
I didn't do that well on the circuits, lots of small errors or slowness to act but weirdly it felt more in control (this a/c is not as high revving and sounded like I was expecting so that helped). I was still annoyed that it is not coming together as I hoped! Silly things like edging in towards the runway on Downwind (like a moth to a flame). There wasn't that much wind early on in the lesson to cause drift and I did it 3 out of 5 times. Doh.
I also struggled to get 67kts on climb-out a couple of times. Have done that correctly plenty of times before but it was more than a bit ragged this lesson. I guess capacity overload pushed it out of the door.
One approach was way too high on turning Final but I did get that sorted and actually crabbed in once when the wind picked up a bit
De-brief was fair - I was a bit hesitant at times (interpretation - too much time thinking about it rather than doing it!) and I need to work on trimming correctly, but my TO and go-around was good.
Frustrating though, when I know what I should be doing.
Oh well, back there tomorrow. Had a look at the nearest TAF and expect RWY 08 again.