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About this blog

What is this blog you ask? Its simply anything and everything related to my flight training. Hope you enjoy! :D 

 

P.S. Sorry if its a little hard to follow. As its just a bunch of thoughts and whatnot, its slightly hard to organise it. Sozzles. 

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Doing circuits and landings...

Today, I was able to fly in both the morning and afternoon.    Our morning flight was delayed by an hour due to fog/mist however it did clear and thus we were able to fly. We did 7 circuits however they were all low passes. Circuits were suprsingly less demanding that I had expected.    In the afternoon flight, I did my first landing! We did 3 touch n go before we exited the circuit to go over what to do in an engine failure. We then came back to do a shortfield landing. 
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First time taking off...

Hehe, I did the take off first time today! (did it for the second flight as well). First time was on a grass strip and the second time was on tarmac. To be honest, taking off on grass was probably easier as although its more bumpy and whatnot, it requires a lot less tweaking for it to go straight, meaning when you first select full-thrust for take off, you don't even have to kick the rudder right. Deliberately stalled today as well. Went over how to recover from a clean stall without using the e
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What's occurred so far...

So what's occurred so far?  First day (11th June): Due to bad weather, first lesson was cancelled. The second lesson became how to do the pre-flight checks.  12th June: Weather was still a little nasty so my instructor did ground school on "the effects of control" (Note: she technically isn't supposed to do ground school with meh as its an "extra").  For the second lesson, the weather finally cleared up enough for me to do my familiarisation flight.  Today wa
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