Tomahawk674
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- Jun 7, 2005
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- St. Joseph, Missouri
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Tomahawk674
Hello everyone, for those who are bored, I'm gonna tell you about my interesting and fun lesson today.
The last couple of lessons I've just been doing touch and goes (for those who don't know me, I can't get a medical so I always fly with a CFI for the joy of it, so it's not like I need to be working on any concept specifically).
The instructor I typically choose who is young (my age, 20s) and very down to earth wasn't aveilable, so I scheduled with another one who I hadn't met. So I went today and met the guy, who turned out to be one of them older military pilots, oh boy!
I was rather surprised when he wanted my all my turns to be 30 degrees back and "crisp", which he proceeded to demonstrate. Dang! I think he pulled a few G's, and this was turning to crosswind leg. So I went ahead and tried doing them all like that, but I felt kind of uncomfortable at first, I kind of felt the turns were a little aggressive for just patter work.
Then I had the little incident were I put my foot in my mouth on the radio. Tower was giving me clearance to land, and on they went about winds, gear down (a Tomahawk, "sigh" gear is always down) and when I thought they were done I jumped in and acknowledged, but they weren't done, they said one more thing and then said "cleared to land", I felt like an idiot.
Then another interesting fact was that once on base, I pulled some flaps out and when on final I was going to pull out the rest but he said that I had already pulled them all out, and that I had probably not retracted them all on the previous T&G run. So we came in, and the approach seemed a little fast, and I had a rough landing. Turns out I hadn't pulled flaps all out, and we landed with half the flaps...
So we went once more, meanwhile fighting a small crosswind, and brought her back in. It was an enjoyable experience aside the interesting details I mentioned, but the guy was really great, and his flying method brings a new approach to flying I wasn't very accustomed to. He seems to be a very good instructor, in his military sort of way hehe.
Hope you liked my story!
The last couple of lessons I've just been doing touch and goes (for those who don't know me, I can't get a medical so I always fly with a CFI for the joy of it, so it's not like I need to be working on any concept specifically).
The instructor I typically choose who is young (my age, 20s) and very down to earth wasn't aveilable, so I scheduled with another one who I hadn't met. So I went today and met the guy, who turned out to be one of them older military pilots, oh boy!
I was rather surprised when he wanted my all my turns to be 30 degrees back and "crisp", which he proceeded to demonstrate. Dang! I think he pulled a few G's, and this was turning to crosswind leg. So I went ahead and tried doing them all like that, but I felt kind of uncomfortable at first, I kind of felt the turns were a little aggressive for just patter work.
Then I had the little incident were I put my foot in my mouth on the radio. Tower was giving me clearance to land, and on they went about winds, gear down (a Tomahawk, "sigh" gear is always down) and when I thought they were done I jumped in and acknowledged, but they weren't done, they said one more thing and then said "cleared to land", I felt like an idiot.
Then another interesting fact was that once on base, I pulled some flaps out and when on final I was going to pull out the rest but he said that I had already pulled them all out, and that I had probably not retracted them all on the previous T&G run. So we came in, and the approach seemed a little fast, and I had a rough landing. Turns out I hadn't pulled flaps all out, and we landed with half the flaps...
So we went once more, meanwhile fighting a small crosswind, and brought her back in. It was an enjoyable experience aside the interesting details I mentioned, but the guy was really great, and his flying method brings a new approach to flying I wasn't very accustomed to. He seems to be a very good instructor, in his military sort of way hehe.
Hope you liked my story!