Lesson #2

I met with George this morning for my second flight lesson. My personal goals set for this lesson were to improve my taxiway driving skills, and remember a more from this lesson than last. I was planning on a pretty quick timeframe, but it once again was 3 1/2 hours. I am so impressed with my instructor's patience and willingness to explain everything to me.

We started out going over the FAA Medical form that I need to have completed before my solo, which George is guestimating another month max. WOW, that seems soooo soon for me at this point. I was given minimum help for preflight, which was a great test for my memory. I managed it pretty well! We began the flight reviewing some of the studies I had from the first lesson: Left Turn Tendency and Adverse Yaw. I just managed to understand the Adverse Yaw last night.....late. While up in the air, I was to practice holding a 20 degree turn and setting my directional check point outside of the plane (not looking at the panel for entire directions). I practiced the trim, which made the flight MUCH easier and way less work for the pilot. We made a touch-and-go landing for practice and then circled back around for me to land. This has to be the best part. It's a bit weird seeing the ground coming at you so quickly and knowing that you can't just pull back up to avoid the landing, but I love the rush I get when I feel the plane touch down. I was a little slow on the flare (pulling up of the nose to keep it from touching down first, you always want to land on the two main wheels first), so I had a minor step-in from George. Flight time for today: 1.3 hours. Total Flight time: 2.2 hours.

Overall he was impressed with my improvements, and gave me a pretty "simple" homework. I have to memorize the panel. I was given a poster to use to study it from, so I was "teaching" Stuart some of the goodies. Here he is "flying". It has to be his favorite thing today, he's even teaching Macy some of the goodies. He remembers the mixture and throttle pulls, and to press the button to call the towers for approval. It is pretty cute to watch him. I'm sure he'll be a pilot too!

Hey.....and I did not get sickly today either! Bonus!