Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:50 am
#1894008
Lesson #5 Yesterday
luckily there seemed to be a short break in the clouds above manchester for a couple of hours
Felt a bit rusty after not flying all of December due to crappy manchester weather
ascending and descending today
instructor had me do the full taxi from parking to power check and then line up, and do the take off which was a bit of a thrill doing it all myself for the first time
Taxi-ing still needs some work, started out great but sometimes it feels as though the aircraft isn't responding to what I'm doing
anyway up in the air and out towards Bolton surrounded by clouds at about 2000 feet I think
had to do a couple of steep turns to not go IFR at some points
I did my revising and already expected the PAT and APT terminology
felt quite comfortable with it and soon enough he was telling me to just ascend and descend to certain altitudes without him needing to tell me anything, as well as doing the FREDA checks regularly!
as well as letting me do some of the descending in the circuit as well as flying some S&L from the dead side
nearly had a close call with another plane over the middlebrook stadium which involved my instructor taking controls and doing a steep turn out of the way
Other than that, need to focus on getting my taxi work better (and not moving the bloody yoke like it's a steering wheel) but was buzzing to get started on flying in 2022
alternatively I've now taken up the habbit of watching people fix planes on youtube much to my other halfs annoyance
luckily there seemed to be a short break in the clouds above manchester for a couple of hours
Felt a bit rusty after not flying all of December due to crappy manchester weather
ascending and descending today
instructor had me do the full taxi from parking to power check and then line up, and do the take off which was a bit of a thrill doing it all myself for the first time
Taxi-ing still needs some work, started out great but sometimes it feels as though the aircraft isn't responding to what I'm doing
anyway up in the air and out towards Bolton surrounded by clouds at about 2000 feet I think
had to do a couple of steep turns to not go IFR at some points
I did my revising and already expected the PAT and APT terminology
felt quite comfortable with it and soon enough he was telling me to just ascend and descend to certain altitudes without him needing to tell me anything, as well as doing the FREDA checks regularly!
as well as letting me do some of the descending in the circuit as well as flying some S&L from the dead side
nearly had a close call with another plane over the middlebrook stadium which involved my instructor taking controls and doing a steep turn out of the way
Other than that, need to focus on getting my taxi work better (and not moving the bloody yoke like it's a steering wheel) but was buzzing to get started on flying in 2022
alternatively I've now taken up the habbit of watching people fix planes on youtube much to my other halfs annoyance