Good morning all,
I wanted to share this experience as an attempt to mentally process how to improve, and it is something I keep revisiting in my minds eye.
Soft field take-off. My fourth unassisted take-off (practically a pro now right?
). Everything up from pre-flight to climb-out has gone rather well. No interventions or corrections from my FI, and I am feeling 'relatively' comfortable.
On climb-out, I have things nicely trimmed, speed is good, heading is ok. There's a 10 degree noise abatement turn, which I start. Suddenly, as the wing lifts for the turn, a crosswind gust pushes the wing up much further, and my FI had to quickly correct as I didn't correct enough. I settle back into the climb and continue on to the training area.
I keep looking back and ask myself why I didn't correct this more quickly myself, and what I could've done differently. I didn't get an feedback on it from my FI. I'm chalking it up to lack of experience and slower reaction time than my FI. But open to counsel if anyone has a view.
The rest of the lesson goes ok, as we practice various stall exercises. Very interesting for me, as I have never experienced anything quite like it. Fun too, once I realised my body, brain and inner ear could cope quite comfortably with everything after the first couple of goes. My inner 'responsible adult' probably cast me a look when I caught myself asking "can we give that one more try please?"
The other plus is that all the in between stuff is beginning to feel a little more automatic (eg getting from A to B, heading and altitude management, engine management and speed), such that it has become 'in between stuff' rather than a point of focus. Don't get me wrong, its still VERY early days (10th hour) and much to do. It was nice feeling all the same.
Cheers everyone!
I wanted to share this experience as an attempt to mentally process how to improve, and it is something I keep revisiting in my minds eye.
Soft field take-off. My fourth unassisted take-off (practically a pro now right?
). Everything up from pre-flight to climb-out has gone rather well. No interventions or corrections from my FI, and I am feeling 'relatively' comfortable.On climb-out, I have things nicely trimmed, speed is good, heading is ok. There's a 10 degree noise abatement turn, which I start. Suddenly, as the wing lifts for the turn, a crosswind gust pushes the wing up much further, and my FI had to quickly correct as I didn't correct enough. I settle back into the climb and continue on to the training area.
I keep looking back and ask myself why I didn't correct this more quickly myself, and what I could've done differently. I didn't get an feedback on it from my FI. I'm chalking it up to lack of experience and slower reaction time than my FI. But open to counsel if anyone has a view.
The rest of the lesson goes ok, as we practice various stall exercises. Very interesting for me, as I have never experienced anything quite like it. Fun too, once I realised my body, brain and inner ear could cope quite comfortably with everything after the first couple of goes. My inner 'responsible adult' probably cast me a look when I caught myself asking "can we give that one more try please?"
The other plus is that all the in between stuff is beginning to feel a little more automatic (eg getting from A to B, heading and altitude management, engine management and speed), such that it has become 'in between stuff' rather than a point of focus. Don't get me wrong, its still VERY early days (10th hour) and much to do. It was nice feeling all the same.
Cheers everyone!
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