On a random sample of one I won't be buying the vids either. I chose 'The circuit lessons 12 & 13' (covers TO, circuit and Landing).
It was approx 22 mins in total. 15 (yes) minutes of checklists (presume already covered in earlier lessons so could have been emphasised as important but speeded over), one circuit flown by Nigel with speeds mentioned but no actual advice or tips on flying*, and one landing. Very, very disappointing. I've seen Nigel teaching before and he's really good. Perhaps I had unrealistic expectations.
Flying Reporter took no part other than as someone present to receive the spoken words (and hold a mic). I had imagined Nigel would instruct and FR would fly
* oh yes, there was one tip about turning when 45° angle to runway between tail and nose.
#### Actually, as the above feels mean I have tried the Circuit Emergencies lesson, too...###
This covers 4 things, although I thought I'd missed a bit at the beginning due to the editing.
- Go-around - Good reasons given and emphasis of how important it is to consider a Go Around but.... nothing about having to hold the nose quite firmly to stop it rising when full power added, nothing about flying to the right of the rwy as you do it, or letting others know what you are doing when safe to make the radio call.
- Rejected TO info was OK but left them sat on the rwy, so I felt it needed a little more info about what to do next.
- Recovering from a bounced landing - good explanation of why it happened, encouraged go-around but demo'd adding power and recovering to land with suitable warning that this uses a lot of rwy.
- EFATO - get best glide, pick field, but emphasis was on shutting down engine to prevent surge. I thought that unless you were extremely low, the first action after setting glide attitude was carb heat, then split second checks of fuel, mixture, mags, master because for the time taken you may find the solution*, then a/c specific whether flaps need power, when to shut down. No mention of cinching harnesses, opening door latch.
Not bad but on balance having viewed two, not enough to sell me any other lessons.
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