This thread has been around for a while. It was here when I started my training, but I never really posted on my progress. So, consider this a catchup!
Since I started this adventure, I've completed my PPL, instrument, tailwheel, commercial and most recently a seaplane rating. Good times! I've learned something new at every step.
Lately, I'm towing gliders occasionally, stepping into aerobatics and having a blast with the occasional cross country.
So, to those at the beginning of the journey, don't get discouraged (we all did at some point). Enjoy your journey and know that this thing you're doing is going to change your life.
Wow. Very cool! I have ambitions like that but am still just a low time student. How long did all of that take?
I'm only in my 8th hour, and for the first time, threw up yesterday at the end of my hour. Wasn't as gross as it could have been, mostly water looks like. Embarrassing. It was my first time doing 45 deg banks, and at some point I was not keeping the nose up enough, the instructor raised here "here is where you need to be" and I felt that g force on me and that was when I think I started getting queasy.
It took a while after though before I got bad, and was worth it because I think I finally get what nose "up" means in that it has no relation to the ground just the situation and AOA, and that I have to have way more back pressure even though it seems wrong, to counter the loss of lift that opposes weight. Maybe I'm not even saying it correctly, but it makes sense to me now. I'm such a beginner at this point, and feel like a 45 deg bank it like another world than a 30, but it really isn't, it's just my perception.
My current instructor does put me through the paces...I keep wanting to get one thing solid, then move onto the next but as as soon as I starting banks, descent, climbs, he just throws them at me, "now turn in a 30 right, 180 and descend to 3200" and as soon as I am almost there, "immidiately start a bank left and climb to 3900" etc.
It's a long way off before I even get my PPL, but I kind of dream of flying seaplanes and getting instrument ratings. First I just need to concentrate on learning to fly though.
So much to take in, and get used to.
that's a lot rock stars here, I'm a student pilot myself, 10 hours of flight time. I'm very frustrate at this time and thinking my CFI is going to tell me quit learning due to my poor performance, poor judgement, the only thing i'm good at is positive attitude. After today's event, my CFI didn't give me any debrief, he signed my logbook, and told me he will cancel my tomorrow's flight training and text me next week to regroup my training. I'm so jealous at you guys doing solo in 13 hours or so, at this point I can see myself Nowhere close to do solo, maybe 25 hours later, but i'm pretty sure I'll get kicked out of the program before that happens.
Just do the best you can. I've got less hours (8), have been getting good marks on my evaluations, but I don't feel like I'm "getting it" quickly enough. I'm nowhere near getting to solo. My instructor seems to me to be both very hard on me in the air, but also giving me encouragement and saying I am doing well. He pushes me to the limit to where when I get home my "tail is dragging" and I feel like I've been through the wringer. He's demanding, and I make mistakes, but I am new to this. Because of circumstances I'm not able to fly every week, and I think this helps me digest as I go over the last flight in my mind, correct things in my thinking and then prepare for the next flights lessons, as well as going through the ground school material. For myself it feels like faster would be better I want to know and gain confidence. It's so critical to do things right I think we student magnify our mistakes (cringe at some of them) and maybe don't see what we have learned.
I'm happy for folks that solo so quickly, I don't want to be one of them though, I want to solo when my CFI tells me I am ready as I trust him to evaluate me correctly. I'm sure I won't feel ready even then. But will trust him.
You can't fix everything, but it does worry me that he he didn't debrief you. Why didn't he?
I wish you good luck.
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