First 11 lessons
Well we started on January 8th and I started flying on the 9th. I was already ahead of everyone by the time I had started. Unfortunately I was too late with starting this blog so, I will have to sort of ’skim’ through everything and jump us all the way from lesson 1 to lesson 11.
My first 2 days were just ground school. They taught us how to make weight&balance sheets, fill out take off data cards, get ATIS, make sure plane is update to date on it’s maintenance forms, and how to conduct a preflight. All these things I had already known with flying other friends, so it was real easy stuff. The hardest part was undoubtedly making that knot for the tie downs! I just could not get it! maybe because I’m a lefty and everything sort of felt reversed to me, but by now I can finally do them
I was so eager to get up there and show the instructors what I was already capable of, I desperately looked for CFI to start me with my lessons. Thing is, mine hadn’t arrived yet so it was either wait until he got here, or find another one to jump start me! I chose to go ahead and just find a temporary one to get going. My temporary instructor was Adi. Him and I did all the lessons to to 5 which included some stuff on a Frasca 142. most of the stuff we did was slow flight, power on/off stalls and few turns around a point and s turns…
My real instructor arrived on Monday next week, we did my last sim and the next day we were off to lesson 7… it was really more of the same stuff… lesson nine was finally time to practice landings…. My landings were a bit harsh, I kept getting scared when I went over the threshold and when I went idle, I would pull back on the yoke a little bit trying to keep us level which bled off speed like crazy so we would come down real hard even with the flare… lesson 11 was landings again and we logged 12 landings, and I got them down real good… I land decent now. He did tell me that when I flare I’m pulling back too much which is causing us to hang in the air and drop down a bit harsh, mostly due to my death grip on the yoke… so next time we practice landings (13) I won’t be as harsh on the controls as I was, and my landings will be fine…. I can stay pretty close to the center line and that’s good. I now have 12.8 hours and 29 landings, and I’m already on lesson 12 which is a check stage… I have to wait for a check instructor now , so he can see how I’m doing, so I can proceed on. Most students who started at the same time as I did are at like lesson 6 (I think the closest one to me is lesson 7) I’m already on 12, so I’m way ahead of everyone. the CFIs know it too, I’m going like a speed train
Well that is a quick overview of all I have done so far! ![]()