Re: A student Pilots Diary

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A student Pilots Diary

Bob Hanson 23/09/2003, 7:27 AM

A Flying students' diary..

Week 1

Monday: Rain

Tuesday: Rain

Wednesday: No rain; no visibility either

Thursday: Take instructor to lunch. Discover I don't know enough to take
instructor to lunch.

Friday: Fly! Do first stall and second stall during same manoeuvre. Cover
instructor with lunch.

Week 2

Monday: Learned not to scrape frost off Plexiglas with ice-scraper. Used big
scratch as marker to set pitch.

Tuesday: Instructor wants me to stop calling throttle "THAT BIG KNOB THING."
Also hates when I call instruments "GADGETS"

Wednesday: Radios won't pick up radio stations, so I turned them off.
Instructor seems to think I missed something.

Thursday: Learned 10 degree bank is not a steep turn. Did stall again today.
Lost 2000 feet. Instructor said that was some kind of record -- my first
compliment.

Friday: Did steep turn. Instructor said I was not ready for inverted flight
yet.

Week 3

Monday: Instructor called in sick. New instructor told me to stop calling
her "BABE". Did steep turns. She said I had to have permission for inverted
flight.

Tuesday: Instructor back. He told me to stop calling him "BABE", too. He got
mad when I pulled power back on takeoff because the engine was to loud.

Wednesday: Instructor said after the first 20 hours, most students have
established a learning curve. He said there is a slight bend in mine.
Aha--progress!

Thursday: Did stalls. Clean recovery. Instructor said I did good job. Also
did turns around a point. Instructor warned me never to pick ex-fiancée's
house as point again.

Friday: Did pattern work. Instructor said that if downwind, base and final
formed a triangle, I would be perfect. More praise!

Week 4

Monday: First landing at a controlled field. Did fine until I told the
captain in the 747 ahead of us on the taxiway to move his bird. Instructor
says we'll have ground school all this week on radio procedures.

Tuesday: Asked instructor if everyone in his family had turned grey at such
an early age. He smiled. We did takeoff stalls. He says I did just fine but
to wait until we reached altitude next time. Three Niner Juliet will be out
of the shop in three days when the new strut and tire arrive. Instructor
says his back bothers him only a little.

Wednesday: Flew through clouds. I thought those radio towers were a lot
lower. I'm sure my instructor is going grey.

Thursday: Left flaps down for entire flight. Instructor asked way. I told
him I wanted the extra lift as a safety margin. More ground school.

Friday: Asked instructor when I could solo. I have never seen anyone
actually laugh until they cried before.

Re: A student Pilots Diary

Victoria Deighton 01/10/2003, 2:56 PM
You know me so well Bob........