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    Two questions: Departure vs. Approach vs. Center AND Updrafts/Downdrafts

    Hi all, I had two questions I am hoping the community might be able to help with. First, how important is the distinction between departure/approach/center? Sometimes when I call approach for flight following, they identify themselves as departure. Sometimes they'll hand me off to another...
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    Ground Effect Feeling

    Silly question I was hoping y'all could help me with. I think I'm getting different feelings on the flight controls confused when trying to land. People talk about ground effect all the time, but what does it actually feel like? Can you feel it on the controls, do they get mushier like in a...
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    Rudder

    I recently started flight training, and was really surprised at the difficulty pushing on the rudder. I feel almost like I'm pressing a leg press but with my feet/ankles (and I'm not a weak guy, I can leg press 500+ lbs). In the air it doesn't seem to be a huge problem since small pushes seem...
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