A Suprise Take-off
This was my 3rd PPL training hour.
Flew exercise 6 today, this covered straight and level flight. At 4000ft AGL (that’s for Above Ground level) the place was rolled into a turn, or alternately into a descend or climb by my instructor, coupled with a random throttle and trim setting. I was asked then to recover the aircraft back into straight and level, cruise flight. Later we practiced climbing and descending the plane, while maintaining good lookout and airmanship.
What’s interesting, per title, at the start of lesson my instructor talked me through taxiing to the top of runway and performed a pre-takeoff checklist. Then I was told to fully open the throttle, it was only at this moment I realised I’m doing the take off….so I did. Was told I did well but felt maybe I had trouble holding runway Centreline as i took off to the right of it. Rudder control not the best and it's very difficult to disassociate muscle memory from driving.
Descending is not easy! Need to remember…
Change attitude to hold airspeed
aim at one speed (say 70mph) then change attitude up ot down to keep at 70mph
use throttle to control altitute change
Overall very happy with this session,went very quickly and didn't get nausea. Altho I still have issues identifying where we are in flight.
Also I noticed an aircraft share for sale, have to think about that, 100per month and 90 wet per hour is not bad (if good plane)
Wonder if i can buy into it and use that for training, can that be cheaper?r
