Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:02 am
#1868055
I understand that Hapenny Green is similar but £35.
PPL(A) gained 30/8/22, started Aug 21, C-152, EGBJ
Moderator: AndyR
Milty wrote:I was a bit cheesed off after my dodgy stalls last Friday.
Milty wrote:Mainly that I couldn’t stop myself pushing the column too far forward on the initial recovery, then pulling back to correct. Was like the Big Dipper at Blackpool. The more I ballsed it up, the more annoyed and tense I got and the worse it was.
Milty wrote:Mainly that I couldn’t stop myself pushing the column too far forward on the initial recovery, then pulling back to correct. Was like the Big Dipper at Blackpool. The more I ballsed it up, the more annoyed and tense I got and the worse it was.
Milty wrote:I’m 1 trial lesson and 3 others in. Take a look at my thread re new student Gloucester.
The XC is planned primarily because it’s cheaper and quieter to do circuits at Hapenny Green than it is at Gloucester. I’m sure my FI will have me doing slow flight, the odd stall etc on the way over and back. It will be an intro into what XC is like. As @ChrisRowland said, I don’t think XC will be that difficult with an FI sat next to me. Would I want to do it alone at this stage or with responsibility for exactly where we are - god no. But I think it will be interesting rather than intense and be great to experience flying to a different airfield… landing and paying landing fees elsewhere etc.
My target is to qualify in roughly 18 months. I have been booking roughly 1 lesson per week but missed 1 due to weather and 1 due to work. I don’t want to rush it due to time and money constraints but am aiming at worst to get in 1 lesson every 2 weeks or 3 weeks.
My FI has a reputation for pushing hard. The theory is that it’s better to throw a lot of stuff in at the start, then you can work on perfecting what you need to over time and relax a bit later on. I personally like this approach overall but it is quite intense and I was a bit cheesed off after my dodgy stalls last Friday. But it’s all progress. I think it’s good to mix up training with different experiences. We did a low flyover Defford grass strip on my second lesson with a strong crosswind whilst trying to track down the runway. It was great to try it and just makes learning more interesting rather than perfecting one thing at a time.
jcal wrote:In the back of my mind I was constantly thinking I wouldn't have done that landing and just gone around. So I asked my FI after what he thought and he agreed that if I was flying solo I should've gone around, but since he was there he was happy to guide me down anyway. It does make me think though that if I'm on the controls (and as far as I know he didn't touch the controls at all) and he thought that we should've gone around why didn't we?
TopCat wrote:He would have wanted you to go around on that landing at your current stage, if you'd been solo, because it was close enough to the edge of the Ok range that he would want you to have a bigger margin when you're solo. I expect he also wanted you to see what a moderately bad one looks and feels like, which is absolutely crucial to the learning process.
By the time you're ready for solo, you'll be better able to
a) be reliably further from that edge,
b) recover from the recoverable ones that don't need a go around, and
b) make the land/go-around judgement for yourself.
So absolutely do not beat yourself up about that now.
TopCat wrote:Having said that, if you ever touchdown nose first, go around immediately. Otherwise there's a pretty good chance of a very badly ruined day. But hopefully there is absolutely no chance of your doing that, if you're being taught properly.