{"id":537,"date":"2016-08-22T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2016-09-14T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T19:01:17","slug":"lessons-17-18-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Lessons 17 18 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These three lessons were\u00a0packed full of landing practice in preparation for solo flight.\u00a0One of the challenges that has held me back from soloing is\u00a0an inability to\u00a0schedule consistent lessons and fly back-to-back days (or\u00a0at minimum two times a week.) There seems to be a scheduling conflict each time I have steady progress. But upon the completion of Lesson 19 and several successful strong crosswind landings, I think there is a high likelihood\u00a0Lesson 20 may include me flying solo.<\/p>\n<p>During Lesson 17, we took a little bit of time to practice emergency descents (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g9cDjlGUQWw\" target=\"_blank\">watch the video here<\/a>.)\u00a0Demonstrating two different types of emergency descents was helpful. The first, full flaps and a 45\u00ba bank, we managed to lose\u00a0about 1,500 ft\/min\u2014not bad. More impressive, however, was the second descent. Forcing\u00a0the plane into a full slip, we\u00a0achieved a descent rate of over 2,000 ft\/min. Both of these tools will be helpful if I ever need to go from a high altitude to the ground in a controlled manner (i.e. in the event of a cabin fire.)<\/p>\n<p>Lesson 18 and 19 were spent at PAO working on aligning the nose during crosswind landings and we also practiced\u00a0several non-standard landings\u2014power off approach and no-flap approaches. The power off approach proved to be a real challenge with a 10-15 kt crosswind. Biggest takeaway: make sure you&#8217;ve made the field before making big adjustments such as &#8220;dumping the flaps.&#8221; If you don&#8217;t have enough energy left to make the runway, you&#8217;re not going to\u00a0be able to add more power in the event of a real engine failure.<\/p>\n<p>While wrapping up Lesson 19, I told my CFI I could meet first thing the following morning. He affirmed he could too and I began to secretly hope that this would be my solo flight opportunity. Lesson 19 had some great landing practice and I was confident the winds would be light enough in the morning for me to take to the pattern on my own&#8230; We&#8217;ll see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These three lessons were\u00a0packed full of landing practice in preparation for solo flight.\u00a0One of the challenges that has held me back from soloing is\u00a0an inability to\u00a0schedule consistent lessons and fly back-to-back days (or\u00a0at minimum two times a week.) There seems to be a scheduling conflict each time I have steady progress. But upon the completion [&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\/537"}],"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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}