Today’s lesson consisted of pattern work followed by\u00a0a Left Dumbarton departure to practice more maneuvers over the west side of the valley. I am learning very quickly that being taught to fly is a true challenge\u2014both of the mind and body. This entire experience has the potential to be very rewarding\u00a0and I look forward\u00a0the sense of accomplishment I will experience\u00a0upon completion of training.<\/p>\n
There was a lesser crosswind component today than present in my last lesson. This lack of crosswind allowed me to focus more on my subtle movements with the yoke and kept me overall less tense on the controls. My CFI has consistently needed to remind me that I cannot truly appreciate the feedback the plane is providing to me if I am too tight on the controls. He has considered placing something gross feeling on the back side of the controls\u00a0or having me hold an egg between my palm and the yoke to prevent me from gripping too hard. I told him I would make a conscious effort to relax and avoid the need to hold an egg\u2014I then realized he was joking.<\/p>\n
The maneuvers we practiced included steep turns and power-on stalls. Unlike power-off<\/em> stalls, a power-on stall is completed in cruise or takeoff configuration. There is a tremendous amount of back pressure required to stall a Cessna in this phase of flight. But as long as you hold it and keep increasing that angle of attack, the aircraft\u00a0will stall. This maneuver felt less extreme than the power-off stall and the recovery happens almost instantaneously.<\/p>\n Today’s flight was my longest yet. Two hours on the hobbs for a grand total of 5.6 hours of instruction!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s lesson consisted of pattern work followed by\u00a0a Left Dumbarton departure to practice more maneuvers over the west side of the valley. I am learning very quickly that being taught to fly is a true challenge\u2014both of the mind and body. This entire experience has the potential to be very rewarding\u00a0and I look forward\u00a0the sense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}