{"id":515,"date":"2016-07-01T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2017-10-22T22:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T05:57:33","slug":"lesson-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>One\u00a0item on the agenda for today:\u00a0Not perform as bad as I did in my last lesson.\u00a0In all seriousness, I plan to learn from yesterday&#8217;s mistakes to improve my landings today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I scheduled an afternoon lesson today to accommodate a change in my CFI&#8217;s schedule and to avoid 0900 Bay Area traffic\u2014it&#8217;s the worst. Around 1330 we met at the aircraft. I had performed the majority of the pre-flight and was just about ready when my CFI arrived. We wrapped up the last few items on the checklist and called for a taxi clearance. We\u00a0intended was to fly the pattern at PAO, but as we approached the run-up area, it was quickly apparent that the pattern was busy and we would be subject to ground and airborne delays. After one lap in the pattern, I requested a departure to HWD, anticipating there would not be a whole lot of traffic in the pattern. &#8220;Cessna 3ZK, right crosswind your discretion. Frequency change approved. Good day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our anticipation was correct\u2014HWD only had a few inbound and outbound aircraft. Now I could really begin to focus on my landings and pattern work. The headwind was pretty strong and as a result I came in very slow (almost too slow) a time or two. It was a little unsettling to see the airspeed drop to 53kts on a 1 mile final still at 500 feet. My instructor promptly corrected me and reminded me that the only correction in this case is to add more power and nose over the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the landings are concerned, the major thing I need to work on is aligning the nose. I definitely began to improve my rudder inputs by the end of the lesson, but the first several landings were not well aligned. As I came down from the ground effect onto the runway, the nose would swing and I would not react quickly enough to keep from bouncing\u00a0sideways in the touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>I am very happy with the flow I&#8217;ve developed for a pre-landing checklist. It rolls off the tongue naturally now that I&#8217;ve said it for six or seven lessons, and to prevent expectation bias, every few times I&#8217;ll glance down at my checklist just to ensure I didn&#8217;t miss an item requiring inspection.<\/p>\n<p>On the return to PAO, I called inbound over Coyote Hills but experienced difficulty receiving a reply from the tower. After three attempts to call on Comm 1, I switched\u00a0to the second radio and was immediately contacted by the tower asking &#8220;how do you hear now?&#8221; Loud and clear. I&#8217;m not sure what caused the communication failure, as that very radio had worked just fine moments before at HWD. I was secretly hoping for a chance to fly inbound squawking 7600\u2014maybe next time \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One\u00a0item on the agenda for today:\u00a0Not perform as bad as I did in my last lesson.\u00a0In all seriousness, I plan to learn from yesterday&#8217;s mistakes to improve my landings today. I scheduled an afternoon lesson today to accommodate a change in my CFI&#8217;s schedule and to avoid 0900 Bay Area traffic\u2014it&#8217;s the worst. Around 1330 [&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\/515"}],"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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}