Flight Lesson #3

I arrived this morning at the FBO about 20 minutes early as usual hoping to jump right into doing some basic maneuvers flying but my CFI was no where to be found. So after about 15 mins of waiting I was assign another CFI named Mike. I have dealt with Mike with administration stuff for the flight school but nothing with ground schooling or flight training so I didn't know how his teaching was. When we did the preflight discussion Mike was following the fight syllabus and said I was supposed to do some under the hood flying today. I was really nervous about this because a)I didn't think I was ready and b)I would of like to do more flying before I moved on to the hood.

Mike saw the nervousness on my face and told me that I will be alright. We went over flying by instruments and how to go from the Inverted V which includes attitude indicator on top, turn coordinator bottom left, and vertical speed indicator bottom right; then switching to the "T" which is the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator and altimeter on the top and heading indicator below the attitude indicator, then once in awhile doing a full clockwise circle starting with the attitude indicator and ending back at the attitude indicator. You might notice that the attitude indicator is your main instrument when you are flying IFR. After about 30 minutes we headed out to the plane and Mike stepped back and let me go through the checklist on my own to see where I am at with that. He was pleased and had me taxi to the end of the runway.

This is where it gets interesting. I was told to take off and headed to 2000 feet and start turning west at about 900 feet. I throttle all the way up and I started to turn left, because I forgot to hold right rudder but for some reason I pressed on the right brake and we sharply turned right and Mike told me to let off the right brake and just push right rudder. Mike help me get back into the middle of the runway and help me keep the plane straight. At about 65 knots I pitched slightly back and we started to get airborne at about 65 knots flaps go up and we slowly gained altitude. I started to turn left about 850 feet and ascended to little over 2000 feet. Mike had me fly straight and level keeping attitude until we were about 3-4 miles from the airport then asked me to do some left turns and right turns and ascend and descend to certain altitudes making sure I can handle the plane. Once he was satisfied, he had me put the hood which was very uncomfortable especially having a headset on and glasses.

Mike told me to keep the orange plane on the center line as best as possible but for some reason I couldn't do it. It might of been the lack of vision or trying something new. I was loosing and gaining altitude on a frequent basis and was heading of course. It took me awhile but I started to gain confidence in myself and Mike and it was getting easier to do. Mike then had me turn to certain headings and descending to certain altitudes. I expected during this we were heading somewhere because once Mike told me to take off the hood I saw that he had me lined up with the runway and from there he took over and made the landing. I was under for about .3 hours and was told that I will be doing more of this down the road. All and all it was a good flight session.

Flight Time
Dual: 0.8
PIC: 0.0
Total: 0.8

Flight lesson canceled today

This week hasn't been going well at all. From Sunday's flight lesson turning into a ground lesson to today's flight lesson being canceled altogether because of a weather system that has been moving through the country. So that is about 2 hours of flying that I could of had in my log book. I am schedule to fly tomorrow and so far is looks promising. No holding my breath though.

Ground school today

I was hoping today that I will get some flight time in even though it has been raining the last few days. The forecast called for rain all day but thankfully when I woke up this morning it was nice outside for the most part. When I got to the airport I took a look at the AWOS and found out that the ceiling around the airport for the most part was around 600 feet. Well there goes flying for the day. Jim took this opportunity to do some chair flying with me and we went over the basic 4 maneuvers just so they become second nature to me. We did this for about 1 hour and called it a day

Flight Time
Dual: 0.0
PIC: 0.0
Total: 0.0