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TLDR: 2/2 Landings, but awkward on final.
Finally, my wife and I have been going flying about once a week. When I take left seat we will alternate and she practices right seat takeoffs and landings. She is easily good enough to take up passengers that way if she wants.
So this last time she was left and I was right and gave it a go. It mainly felt weird and new. I also started processing very manually, one action at a time.
The final leg was my most challenging portion. Both times I felt crabbed but no wind. Was just way too right and crappy alignment. I was about 7mph slower than I would normally be where I like 80mph over the numbers and was closer to 70mph. I had over cranked the elevator trim earlier and when I went to add a touch of throttle I over did it a bit, nose pitched up and brought back all those pre-solo training sessions with excessive elevator up trim and throttle...push forward and hard!. Caught that quickly, flew it down with 30 flaps and basically greased it LOL.
The second one was better, but again not desired setup on final. No surprises on final but same crappy alignment. Was slow again but not quite as bad. Didnt grease it but it didn't really thunk either. So I know I can do it, but very awkward.
Some Lessons Learned:
Chair fly it first instead of cold turkey
Get scan figured out, especially airspeed.
Learn alignment during taxi/takeoff for landing.
Move left in my seat about 1" toward center.
Avoid left crosswind for now!
Practice takeoff stall recovery go around up high
No less than 10 more reps before re-solo.
Thinking at least 25 total reps before passenger.
One more interesting thing. I really liked the right side landing picture. It was almost natural compared to left side. Maybe a right eye dominant thing.
TLDR: 2/2 Landings, but awkward on final.
Finally, my wife and I have been going flying about once a week. When I take left seat we will alternate and she practices right seat takeoffs and landings. She is easily good enough to take up passengers that way if she wants.
So this last time she was left and I was right and gave it a go. It mainly felt weird and new. I also started processing very manually, one action at a time.
The final leg was my most challenging portion. Both times I felt crabbed but no wind. Was just way too right and crappy alignment. I was about 7mph slower than I would normally be where I like 80mph over the numbers and was closer to 70mph. I had over cranked the elevator trim earlier and when I went to add a touch of throttle I over did it a bit, nose pitched up and brought back all those pre-solo training sessions with excessive elevator up trim and throttle...push forward and hard!. Caught that quickly, flew it down with 30 flaps and basically greased it LOL.
The second one was better, but again not desired setup on final. No surprises on final but same crappy alignment. Was slow again but not quite as bad. Didnt grease it but it didn't really thunk either. So I know I can do it, but very awkward.
Some Lessons Learned:
Chair fly it first instead of cold turkey
Get scan figured out, especially airspeed.
Learn alignment during taxi/takeoff for landing.
Move left in my seat about 1" toward center.
Avoid left crosswind for now!
Practice takeoff stall recovery go around up high
No less than 10 more reps before re-solo.
Thinking at least 25 total reps before passenger.
One more interesting thing. I really liked the right side landing picture. It was almost natural compared to left side. Maybe a right eye dominant thing.
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