2 - Effects of Controls

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Exactly one month to the day after my trial. Even so there was a certain amount of waiting around for the weather to clear a bit (and warming up a bit after a cold, damp pre-flight) and some "the TAF said clearing after 3pm: it's 3:02 does this look clear to you..!" Still, once we were up it was great. Lots of patchy cloud down to 2000', but we could easily avoid them, and the air was smooth as glass. The lesson was 'effects of controls' and it seemed to go reasonably well. The first lesson was on the TB-9, which has a yoke and this time I was in the Katana, which has a stick, but to be honest, once in flight it was pretty much straightforward. I'm not sure yet which control method I prefer.</div> <bR> <div> About halfway through the lesson we were overhead Wellesbourne, and Alistair (my FI) flew the circuit for a touch and go (is that a Vulcan tucked in the corner? must get a close up of that one day!) On the way back we did trim and secondary effects of controls. Not entirely sure I got the hang of trimming - it's an electric trim switch and I'm sure I kept trimming the wrong way; it felt like it anyway. The demo of 'this is what happens if you push the stick hard over and leave it there' was definitely a lunch-in-mouth moment - urk! Fortunately Alistair didn't let the spin develop, or that would have been unpleasant.</div> <bR> <div> Sadly an hour's flying seems like it only lasts 15 minutes and we were back in Enstone. Then came the *really* bad bit -- taxying! The Katana has a castoring nosewheel, so you can only steer by differential brakes. It really was like trying to drive a shopping trolly -- easy to turn left, but much harder to turn right. The best that can really be said is I stayed on the taxyway (just) and didn't hit anything!</div> <bR> <div> Then it was just a matter of pushing it back into the hangar, and grabbing a much-needed cup of coffee. Next lesson will be on Sunday during the club fly-out, when we'll cover straight-and-level and flaps. That'll be in the PA-28 out of necessity (2-hour student is bottom of food chain!). After that I'm going to need to decide whether to stick to the Katana or the Tampico. Decisions, decisions...</div> <bR> <div> (the DA-20 is £13 per hour cheaper too, which equates to six free lessons over 45 hours...)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lesson21"><U><IMG SRC="0aaa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lesson22"><U><IMG SRC="0aba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lesson23"><U><IMG SRC="0aca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lesson24"><U><IMG SRC="0ada0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> Click on the thumbnails to see a bigger version.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>