Lesson 5
1.5 hrs - slow flight, landings, power off stalls, wife in the back seat for a ride. A beautiful morning to be above.
With this lesson scheduled for a Saturday, Heatherle was able to join us. She has been very supportive of this adventure, and has wanted to be included on the fun. She’s always been a very calm passenger on commercial flights, and up until I had a few lessons in, had more time in GA aircraft than I. Heatherle took some great photos, as well as some video.
I still can’t seem to get off the ground at Twin Oaks as cleanly as I’d like, and remains my nemesis, but still some improvement, and it didn't look too bad in the video Heatherle shot.
We worked a little more on slow flight, and then into power off stalls. Power off stalls were really not what I’d thought they would be, and were really quite fun. After my CFI demonstrated, I gave it a shot. My first I recovered before we really stalled, the second I pressed forward a bit on the yoke instead of just releasing some back pressure, at which point I heard a “weeeee” in the headset from Heatherle in the back. The last try was good.
We did three landings at MMV. All need work, but still a bit better than previous lessons, as were the subsequent takeoffs. I do over control on final quite a bit. My instructor held pressure on the yoke against my “corrections” to demonstrate how little is needed.
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