AdamZ
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Adam Zucker
Well today was lesson numberr 4 if you can call it that. Low pressure moved off the coast, actually pretty far off the coast and a High pressure system was moving in from the midwest but was still centered somewhere over indiana I think. Temps dropped to near single digits and the wind really kicked up variable and gusty. at 2:30 wind at KLOM was some where in the neighborhood of 310@15G25. KLOMs runways is 6/24. We were schedualed to do stalls today. We needed a ceiling of 3K to do the stalls it was broken at 3100 bkn at 4100 ovc at 4800.
In reality I couldn't tell you what it was it was such a weird day. Gray and overcast from the south west to southeast a line of cummulus to the north west and VERY Gusty winds. Well after I thawed my fingers from adding oil to the Lance we preflighted, climbed in and cranked her up. It was sooo cold and the wind was howing as I said earlier. I'm not a huge fan of cross winds so I made it a point to say lets do this. prior to taking the runway I took note of the wind one last time and remined myself to put in ample right aileron. The pattern was empty as was to be expected. As I put in power I kept that yoke cranked to the right. everything seemed ok. Then at lift off BAM! here come the gusts variable from 250 to 350 whoosh up comes the right wing despite a ton of right alieron. Then something happend that I saw a commander experience an hour earlier. We started to yaw like crazy. Not roll but yaw. It was like someone grabbed the vertical stabilizer and just played with us. I dont know if the rudder controlled the situation or we just climbed out of the turb. It was really pronounced. I have experienced turb, bumps and rolls but never this. Man that was weird.
Despite haveing some serious bank in on cross wind and cross to downwind. I was getting blow way out. I must have had a 35-40 deg crab in on down wind. I opted to do one pattern just to get a hold of the wind. We skipped the third notich of flaps due to the wind. I needed so much right aileron in I thought the right wing would touch before the mains. It was really out of hand and not very pleasant. We landed and everything was still attached to the plane. We taxied back to 24 and noticed the wind getting stronger and what looked like virga off the departure end of the runway. May have been snow virga not sure but it was cold enough. figuring that was not a promising sight I taxied down the runway to the first taxiway and pulled off. We pulled into the runup area off the taxiway and shut down for about 10 min. We watched the weather called FSS again on the cell and waited. CFi asked what I wanted to do. Well what I wanted to do was take on this darn cross wind. But the weather was just so weird. It was pretty surreal. I was feeling like a wuss but I just couldn't figure the weather out. looked like a front to the NW and dark to the south. I dunno I just decided I can do this another day and we tucked the Lance back in. I felt kinda dumb but I just couldn't get a grasp on what was going on up in the atmosphere. On the bright side Despite the X-wind and gusts I put her down on the center line and my CFI said the procdures were great. So another day. I guess thats what flying is about. Due to my travel and CFIs next lesson will be march 12 after a march 11 Angel flight to Roanoke. So I'll report back then.
In reality I couldn't tell you what it was it was such a weird day. Gray and overcast from the south west to southeast a line of cummulus to the north west and VERY Gusty winds. Well after I thawed my fingers from adding oil to the Lance we preflighted, climbed in and cranked her up. It was sooo cold and the wind was howing as I said earlier. I'm not a huge fan of cross winds so I made it a point to say lets do this. prior to taking the runway I took note of the wind one last time and remined myself to put in ample right aileron. The pattern was empty as was to be expected. As I put in power I kept that yoke cranked to the right. everything seemed ok. Then at lift off BAM! here come the gusts variable from 250 to 350 whoosh up comes the right wing despite a ton of right alieron. Then something happend that I saw a commander experience an hour earlier. We started to yaw like crazy. Not roll but yaw. It was like someone grabbed the vertical stabilizer and just played with us. I dont know if the rudder controlled the situation or we just climbed out of the turb. It was really pronounced. I have experienced turb, bumps and rolls but never this. Man that was weird.
Despite haveing some serious bank in on cross wind and cross to downwind. I was getting blow way out. I must have had a 35-40 deg crab in on down wind. I opted to do one pattern just to get a hold of the wind. We skipped the third notich of flaps due to the wind. I needed so much right aileron in I thought the right wing would touch before the mains. It was really out of hand and not very pleasant. We landed and everything was still attached to the plane. We taxied back to 24 and noticed the wind getting stronger and what looked like virga off the departure end of the runway. May have been snow virga not sure but it was cold enough. figuring that was not a promising sight I taxied down the runway to the first taxiway and pulled off. We pulled into the runup area off the taxiway and shut down for about 10 min. We watched the weather called FSS again on the cell and waited. CFi asked what I wanted to do. Well what I wanted to do was take on this darn cross wind. But the weather was just so weird. It was pretty surreal. I was feeling like a wuss but I just couldn't figure the weather out. looked like a front to the NW and dark to the south. I dunno I just decided I can do this another day and we tucked the Lance back in. I felt kinda dumb but I just couldn't get a grasp on what was going on up in the atmosphere. On the bright side Despite the X-wind and gusts I put her down on the center line and my CFI said the procdures were great. So another day. I guess thats what flying is about. Due to my travel and CFIs next lesson will be march 12 after a march 11 Angel flight to Roanoke. So I'll report back then.
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