First Few Hours and on…

Alright, I finally have time to update my blog! I understand alot of people on here are JCers, Im n57flyguy (if that furthur discourages you from reading futher, haha). So, lets see, since I have to go back in time and remeber what I did for each lesson, Ill go to my second lesson, and second hour. I must say this lesson was one of the more boring ones, but one of the most useful to me. We didn’t get up in the air that much, but we did something thats way harder than it looks (at first), taxiing!

 May 8, 2006

I got there on time, this time at 1600. We did the PF (which for some reason took longer than usual, oh well longer Pre flight is better than a sloppy, short one) and we started her up. Rob had told me before we got in the plane that we would be taxiing the airport, or the nickle tour of New Garden Airport. Either works for me, so we started to taxi. I know that you steer with your feet, but it is kind of strange to train your concious to steer with your feet, you want to turn the airplane with the yoke instead, so, I just let go of it, and kept my hand on the trhottle when it needed to be, other wise, on the lap. Okay, so we taxied down to the Northern hangers, I was all over the place, snaking along from the right to the left, you want to over compinsate alot, so you must become one with the airplane. Rob reminded me that you can damage the prop if you go twoards the sides of the taxi way, because there are rocks and such that go to the edges. Youll notice that some taxiways are humoed in the middle, for when it rains. Too fast, brakes, less thorttle, too unsmooth now, more throttle, brakes!, less throttle, too little throttle, more, brakes!, right rudder, now left, brakes, more throttle, brakes, less throttle, left, watch the hanger!!!, okay good rpm now, watch the rocks! brakes!, too much throttle now again… and so it went on as we circled the north hangers. I almost hit one of the hangers, you know its bad when you see the strobe of your wing reflect off the hanger, in daylight. He showed me the edge of a hanger and told me, dont be like that, because the corner was all bent up. So, we taxied on, and I was starting to get a feel for it, then I would get too confident and loose it. We then went around to the East hangers, and had some more practice snaking around, being extra carfull, and really getting the feel for it now.

Now the fun begins…

So, were done taxiing for the day. We go through the runup and we look good once again. I then proceed to takeoff, after Rob announced we would do this one together. Okay, its easy, just a fast taxi, he told me. I power up and forgot about prop tourq. It pulls to the left, SLAM! right rudder, Rob aligns me, SLAM! right rudder, by then we were at about 50kts and as I started to go to the left again we reached 55kts and eased the yoke back. wow, I suck I thought to myself. “wow that was bad” I told Rob. “dont worry about it, just gotta get used to it” he told me. Not a problem, I just realized that I cant play Mr. corporate pilot when Im a noob student pilot, haha. After that, we just flew around and brushed over the four fundimentals, then I messed up trimming on the wheel and trimed the wrong way. We wern’t up long, so I turned to a heading of 150 and got on the pattern to Runway 6. He briefly went over the pattern as he flew the legs. We landed and calle dit a day. He told me the next lesson we would do some S-turns, so I looked forward to doing that all week.

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