32 - Revision

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I considered it important to try and get in an extra session during the week, and today's weather looked to be the least offensive. In fact, after a heavily clouded start to the day, it started lifting at around 11am, and by lunchtime it was looking rather good - 15kt Southerly winds at 2000ft and a cloud base around 5000ft.</div> <bR> <div> Trying to do anything last minute always seems to become fraught, and I'd completely forgotten that a colleague's leaving lunch was scheduled for this lunchtime. It was a Chinese, and predictably dragged on beyond the allocated hour; the restaurant was crowded, much more than normal, and of course my meal was the last to arrive! Finally, with Special Crispy Noodles and a diet coke shoved down my gullet I was off to the airfield.</div> <bR> <div> During the flight to Wellesbourne, I donned the hood for the final stint of instrument flying, and then it was into the circuit. It's fair to say that my flying was below par, with a lot of silly little mistakes, and after the second, rather ropey landing, Alistair said "Look, I know you can fly better than this, let's park up and have a break for a cup of tea and a bit of a chill out, and then try again." So we parked up on the grass between an Auster and a TB10, and had some tea and cake.</div> <bR> <div> I think I was flustered and unsettled from the rush earlier on, and the break certainly seemed to help. Once we'd finished our teas, I got back into the plane for half an hour of solo circuits. The first was reasonable, the second was a bit fast and the plane started to balloon, so I went around, and the third was quite reasonable too. That took 0.6 hours and so completed my required solo time.</div> <bR> <div> The rest of the lesson was taken up with general handling. We departed runway 18 and climbed to 3500 ft. We then did a steep turn to the right (good), and a steep turn to the left (only "within tolerences" - I was consistently losing height, and obviously need more work there.). Then we did some stalling. First the HASSELL check, followed by a full stall in the clean configuration. No problem, even though it was the first stall I'd done since the initial lesson on stalling. After a HELL check the next stall was a climbing turn stall with the first stage of flaps, recovering on the first sign. I had the devil's own job trying to get the plane to stall in this configuration, but eventially the horn sounded and so I released the stick and applied full power. The third stall was in full landing configuration and again recovering at the first sign. The recovery was a little more complex; first establishing a positive rate of climb, then retracting the first stage of flaps, re-establishing positive climb and then retracting the final stage.</div> <bR> <div> Stalls completed, we went on to unusual attitude recovery. This is not examined but it's required to be taught. So Alistair took control and got me to look at the floor. He then threw the aeroplane about some to disorient me and I then had to figure out from the instruments alone what the plane was doing, and get it back to straight and level. The first exercise left the plane in a steep climbing left turn, with low airspeed. That was pretty straightforward: add throttle, level the wings, lower the nose. The second exercise had the plane entering a spiral dive to the right. For some reason I thought we were climbing -- disorientation -- but the airspeed was well into the yellow arc and the altimiter unwinding at a rate of knots. A bit more thought, and pull back the power, level the wings, and pull back the stick to get out of the dive, feeding the power back in as the airspeed came down to 100 knots.</div> <bR> <div> The final exercise of the afternoon was to be a PFL. Since we hadn't done any glide approaches during the earlier circuits, we decided to head back to Enstone and do the PFLs onto the runway. We flew into the overhead and aligned ourselves with the runway direction, and closed the throttle. Trim for 75 knots, go through the restart and shut down checks, then make one long continuous gliging turn down onto the runway, taking flaps only when sure we'd make it. Touchdown on the numbers! Make it a touch and go, and climb back into the overhead for another go. On the button again. This time we let the plane roll down the runway, and taxied back in.</div> <bR> <div> My next lesson is booked for Good Friday, and should be a full mock skills test.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>