Seanaldinho
Pattern Altitude
So yesterday I had my first "official" in the log book powered flight lesson. Showed up at Destin at 1100 and started preflighting the mighty Cessna 150. Over than checking the oil and sumping the tanks nothing new so we jump back into the FBO to get our clearance and snag some cookies while entrancing the cute girls at the desk.
10 minutes later we are back on the tarmac chewing bubble gum and squeeze into our steed. Taxi out to runway 14 before a couple of business jets and take off behind a Hawker. Slight crosswind out of the west nothing to big. Since this is just supposed to be a "demo" ride to make sure Im comfortable in a plane my instructor handles the take off. Climb out along the coast to the training area and do some turns, steep turns, climbs, descents, slow flight, stalls, and the always present in my mind where to put it if the fan stopped spinning. Nothing to diffucult just a few extra spinny gauges to watch and handles to move.
After ~45 minutes head back to Destin and do 5 tough and goes each one I flew us closer and closer to the deck until we were at the threshold on the last one. For a "demo" ride I cant complain (especially since now we had a 10 knot crosswind). Only thing that bothered me here was how large the pattern is. Im used to final always being a short final.
Taxi back to parking and tie down N66736. 1.3 hours for a first lesson aint bad.
10 minutes later we are back on the tarmac chewing bubble gum and squeeze into our steed. Taxi out to runway 14 before a couple of business jets and take off behind a Hawker. Slight crosswind out of the west nothing to big. Since this is just supposed to be a "demo" ride to make sure Im comfortable in a plane my instructor handles the take off. Climb out along the coast to the training area and do some turns, steep turns, climbs, descents, slow flight, stalls, and the always present in my mind where to put it if the fan stopped spinning. Nothing to diffucult just a few extra spinny gauges to watch and handles to move.
After ~45 minutes head back to Destin and do 5 tough and goes each one I flew us closer and closer to the deck until we were at the threshold on the last one. For a "demo" ride I cant complain (especially since now we had a 10 knot crosswind). Only thing that bothered me here was how large the pattern is. Im used to final always being a short final.
Taxi back to parking and tie down N66736. 1.3 hours for a first lesson aint bad.