Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:19 pm
#1209563
My 2nd or 3rd solo circuit session... Getting confident now that I am nailing those touch and goes... Too confident maybe…
Flying this final all nicely configured followed by a nice touch and full power to take off again then I notice a sooner-than-normal lift off but didn't dwell on it much until I reach maybe 100 feet QFE when I noticed I still have 2 stages of flaps... Without thinking too much I raise all the flaps at once. Then started this uncomfortable descent toward the end of the runway. I thought I could pitch up more and hopefully carry on the climb as the speed wasn't that low (65kt in Cessna 152). I feared a stall in that scenario however and instead, pushed forward a bit while quickly adding one stage of flaps. Soon my descent stopped at an altitude where I could see the details of the scenery at the end of the runway in more details and my heart was pounding. I soon started climbing but was expecting the Tower to say something which could be heard by my instructor at the club... This didn't happen thankfully, and when I walked back to the club I said to my instructor "yes, it went well"... I don’t know maybe I was worried unnecessarily expecting a stall but I didn’t want to chance it.
Edit: Just to clarify, we land with 20 degree flaps and take off with none.
Needless to stay lessons learnt: Don't raise the flaps all at once, never at a low altitude anyway.
Flying this final all nicely configured followed by a nice touch and full power to take off again then I notice a sooner-than-normal lift off but didn't dwell on it much until I reach maybe 100 feet QFE when I noticed I still have 2 stages of flaps... Without thinking too much I raise all the flaps at once. Then started this uncomfortable descent toward the end of the runway. I thought I could pitch up more and hopefully carry on the climb as the speed wasn't that low (65kt in Cessna 152). I feared a stall in that scenario however and instead, pushed forward a bit while quickly adding one stage of flaps. Soon my descent stopped at an altitude where I could see the details of the scenery at the end of the runway in more details and my heart was pounding. I soon started climbing but was expecting the Tower to say something which could be heard by my instructor at the club... This didn't happen thankfully, and when I walked back to the club I said to my instructor "yes, it went well"... I don’t know maybe I was worried unnecessarily expecting a stall but I didn’t want to chance it.
Edit: Just to clarify, we land with 20 degree flaps and take off with none.
Needless to stay lessons learnt: Don't raise the flaps all at once, never at a low altitude anyway.
Last edited by Anon on Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:55 am, edited 1 time in total.