| Lesson 20:
Date: Saturday 3/01/2008 Where: UZA Aircraft: Cessna 172N N517DL Instruction: 1.0/0.7 hours (air/ground) Dual Instruction with William Grannis Quick and Dirty Today is another beautiful day. A bit windy, but blue skies. I arrived at UZA around 10:30AM. I had taken my written pre-solo exam and I wanted Bill to review it before going flying. We sat down and he went over the exam. Everything looked good and Bill even went into detail on some the questions that I asked for help with. We finished with that around 11:40 and I went outside to complete the preflight on Delta Lima. We were going to try and finish up Lesson 8 today. Jill and I had done most of the lesson on Thursday. When Bill came outside he said, "We have a lot to cover today, so we're going to move fast". Little did I know we were going to move really fast. I taxied to runway 20. I have now started to talk through my checklist in preparation for the checkride. After the runup I announced my intentions and we took off. Bill and I headed west and as soon as I leveled out Bill took the controls and had be put on my Foggles (more "hood" work). Now under the "hood", I took back the controls and here is how the flight went. I'll try to be exact... Bill: "Give me a heading of 270." "Good now give me a heading of 150." "OK." "Climb to 2,500 feet and turn to 090." "OK." "Descend to 2,000 feet and turn to 240." "OK." "Give me power on stall." "A bit more right rudder." "OK." "Give me a power off stall." "Complete the maneuver!!" (I forgot to push in Carb Heat). "Try it again." "Give me a power off stall." "OK." "OK, give me a steep turn to the left, you're clear of traffic." "Good, now give me a steep right turn." "OK, now place your chin on your chest, hands and feet off of the controls." A few seconds passed as he twisted and turned the plane. "OK, recover." We were nose down in a turn, so I immediately pulled power, rolled the wings level, then pulled up to level with the horizon. "OK, good, make sure you level out with the horizon, you don't want to pull to hard and stall." I agreed as I didn't mean to pull up so hard as to start climbing. I just wanted to stop diving and level out. This all took about 30 - 40 minutes and I was sweating when Bill took the controls and said that I could take off my Foggles. I took them off and then took the controls back to resume VFR flight. We headed back to UZA. We were going to be using runway 20, so from our direction we were going to cross the runway mid field to enter the pattern. I announced my intentions and I flew parallel to the runway. As I was making my right turn to cross mid-field we heard a radio call that a plane was coming in to land on runway 2, straight in final. We checked the weather again and heard the winds were out of 180, it was very clear that we were to come in on runway 20. The other pilot called us and said that the wind was variable and we should use runway 2. Bill and I disagreed with the pilot, but didn't say anything. We had the traffic in sight and watched him land just as I was crossing mid-field. I entered the pattern on the downwind and we didn't have any problems. I made an OK landing and taxied back to the ramp. I parked the plane and Bill and I talked while we tied it down. Afterwards we headed inside to complete my log book and student records. The flight went well, but as I said, it was quick and dirty. Bill had a discovery flight scheduled right after our lesson, so he was off again. Conclusion: A lesson can be completed quickly if needed. What I learned: Not too much really. Just that I needed to make sure that I not pull up too hard when recovering under the hood. I don't want to stall. Also, I need to complete the maneuver for the power off stall. Make sure to push in the carb heat, after pushing full throttle...then flaps, etc. |