Lesson 7 Date:- 11 August 2017 Aircraft: – ZS-CCT Route: – FALA –– FALA METAR: –METARMETAR FALA 111300Z VRB06KT CAVOK 23/M00 Q1027 NOSIG Hours:- 1.6 Total Hours:- 11.3 Having got my stall/spin sign out last week it was time to get my circuit on. I was really looking forward to the new challenge and spent…
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The correct attitude
Lesson 5 Date:- 28 July 2017 Aircraft: – ZS-BOR Route: – FALA – Magalies GFA – FALA METAR: – FALA 18110Z VRB05KT 9999 FEW030 17/03 Q1031 NOSIG Hours:- 1.4 Total Hours:- 8.4 Power + Attitude = PerformanceThis mantra is drummed into student pilots and has been for years. But I believe it goes beyond the…
Lesson 3 – Turnin’ and Burnin’
Route: FALA – Magalies GFA – FALA Aircraft: – ZS-ZIP (SR20 G3 Avidyne Avionics) METAR:- FALA 181300Z 28007KT 210V360 CAVOK 19/02 Q1029 NOSIG Hours: – 1.7 Total Hours to Date: 5.4 The plan for this trip was to ease back into the aircraft after almost 2 weeks of not flying. As previously mentioned I was feeling…
Incipient Stall lesson
(See what I did there?) My next lesson is due to be on slow flight and stalls. Now I know that these are safe and a necessary part of flight training but the whole concept worries me somewhat. I have 3.7hours of training under the belt so far which is essentially 3 lessons. My instructor…
Attitude Flying – Lesson 2
So its been a bit of a bad time for flying of late. What with the persistent winter inversion and ongoing IMC at Lanseria and then someone apparently broke an engine mount on one of the Avidyne equipped SR20s. Which prompted the flying school to pull all the Avidyne SR20s off the line and inspect…