Flight Lesson #2

I got into the FBO about one hour before my flight to watch some flight videos and to watch some planes take off. I did see an interesting thing happen during this. There was one plane coming in for a landing and at the same time a small BJ taxied and took off. At that time I didn't think nothing of it but come to find out the pilot of the BJ didn't say anything on the radio and cut off the small plane coming in for a landing. When the pilot of the small plane came into the FBO he was pissed off and was raising some hell. I really don't blame. This come to show you how it is important to use your radio all the time especially at a non-towered airport.

Back to the flight lesson of the day. Today involved a quick ground lesson just talking more about attitude and understand the diamonds. We headed out and went of the checklists in detailed again just so I can get use to doing them and make it more natural to do. After we did the checklist we went over the GPS unit in the plane and Jim explain that when ever you fly you need to fly somewhere and not get up in the sky and fly around. So we set in coords to go to an airstrip near by. I taxied some more again and still was all over the place. I guess practice makes perfect. Jim had me taxi to the end of the runway and I added full power and we zipped down the runway. With a lot of help from Jim we got airborne and we followed the flight path we had setup. Jim had me work on more of the 4 basic maneuvers and more trimming. He pushed the envelope a little and had me work on ascending/descending while turning which were fun and challenging. He said that I show the working of a great pilot which made me feel good.

We headed back to the airport and Jim took over the controls and did another beautiful landing. I can't wait to do those myself. I did some more taxing and we ended the day with a short postflight discussing and was told that we will be doing slow flight and dutch rolls for the next lesson. Sounds like fun, can't wait.

I need to work on paying to attitude more outside of the plane then inside and work on taxing.

Flight Time
Dual: 0.9
PIC: 0.0
Total: 0.9