{"id":395,"date":"2016-06-03T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2016-06-17T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T05:27:00","slug":"lesson-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today consisted of strictly pattern work in a new (to me) Skyhawk. The 172 that I rented for the first five lessons was booked solid today, so I ventured toward another one of the 172 &#8220;N&#8221; models. This aircraft, N733ZK, is not the most attractive aircraft in the fleet, but my instructor was optimistic about flying in it do to his impression that it handles better than the 172 we had been flying in.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a lot to say about pattern work. It&#8217;s similar to driving a race car around a track, but instead of driving across\u00a0the starting line each time you <em>come\u00a0around<\/em>, you have to manipulate a flying machine that is\u00a0pivoting\u00a0on three axes safely back onto the ground\u2014or you GO AROUND.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest hang up with our lesson today (and subsequently each of my approaches) was a tendency to nose over during the landing flare and push the aircraft down onto the runway. By the end of the lesson, I was catching myself before making this incorrect gesture. But it absolutely required a good deal of self control to NOT to push the yoke over and ride out the ground effect or any ballooning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_465\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-465\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0341-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"N733ZK\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0341-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0341-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Cessna 3ZK and its glorious paint job.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today consisted of strictly pattern work in a new (to me) Skyhawk. The 172 that I rented for the first five lessons was booked solid today, so I ventured toward another one of the 172 &#8220;N&#8221; models. This aircraft, N733ZK, is not the most attractive aircraft in the fleet, but my instructor was optimistic about [&hellip;]<\/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\/395"}],"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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}