Tom's second lesson
Date: Friday, 17 May, 1996
Time: 1200Z (0600 MST)
Flying time: 1.8 hrs.
Number of landings: 3
I waited too long to write about this one, so all you get to see is a laundry
list. Keep going, they get better.
- Topics covered:
- Straight and level flight
- Climbs/Descents
- Turns
- Climing/descending turns
- Stalls (power on and power off)
- Unusual attitude recovery --- Jeff: "Close your eyes" (puts plane in
bizarre attitude, i.e. with the nose waaaaaay down) "Ok, open them and fix
it"
- Minimum controllable airspeed
- Landings demonstrated and one attempted
- Radio communications
The Third Lesson