Archive for September 23, 2007

Mixed bag

Two lessons booked today, one before lunch and one after lunch. The long term forecast hadn’t looked good, and I thought it’d be a good idea to try and cover the weather. Turns out that my hunch was right, the weather really wasn’t looking that good this morning, but looked like it might [...]

Slow Flight

Wasn’t sure what I was going to be learning today! I’ve reached an interesting point in the course where there’s any number of lessons I could do, depending on the weather.
Ideally this lesson would be some revision of slow flight, and an introduction to stalling; but stalling is going to require a decent enough [...]

Falling

I really wasn’t sure whether the weather was flyable looking out of the window this morning; the forecast hadn’t been that promising, but today’s METAR was a little better — at least it gave me some room under the cloud.
Phoned the flying school and was told that the cloud base was pretty high, but that [...]