Day3 - Stall time

15th January 2009

Because of weather and other things it has been over a week since my last lesson, so I was a little nervous this morning probably because of the fact we were going up to do stalls and I wasn't too sure how I was going to go.

At last I did a take off without doing z's, they may have been s's but they were not z's. Even so it did get a bit hairy but I got it into the air without modifying a wing on a tree.

We got to height, selected an area, checked for other a/c etc etc and got into doing stalls and power-on stalls. Lesson done we headed back to Bradfield for a break and a coffee. Kev got me to come in pretty high over Bradfield and then got me to do descending turns left and right until we were down to final height and then straighten up for a short final. I dropped it in pretty hard with Kev coming on the controls once we were on the ground to help me to keep it straight. He said the landing was not that bad which helped me feel a bit better about it.

After coffee we headed back to Lynfield where the landing was hard again but not as bad as it was at Bradfield, so we had a debriefing and called it a day.

T/T so far 4.3 hrs and I feel I'm progressing.