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Ex 19 – Basic Instrument Flying, wearing the foggles!

May 7, 2011 by admin

foggles

Foggles, very stylish.

I feel pretty dizzy and exhausted after today’s lesson. Got to wear these very exciting foggles which restrict your vision so all you can see is the instruments – no looking out the window today!

After trying to do some maneuvers with my eyes closed, and realising how impossible that is, we started doing maneuvers where I could see the instruments.

It was quite confusing at first, and required a lot of concentration!

Then we covered the DI, and I had to turn onto specific headings without the DI or compass using ‘rate 1 turns’ – this is pretty accurate which is useful to know in case for some reason I fly into cloud and the DI fails… I guess it’s all safety first!

After I took the foggles off I was treated to 2 PFLs on the way back to the airfield and had a nice crosswind for the landing. All in all a busy busy hour with some very confusing sensations thanks to the foggles!

1.1 hours in g-wacb with McGeoghan. We did ex 19, Basic Instrument flying, as well as some more PFL. Total hours flown so far = 25.1 – (19.9 to go!!)

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Ex 17 Precautionary Landings and Local Area Familiarisation

May 7, 2011 by admin

Local Area map high wycombe

Must remember this!

29th of April I was due to fly (and miss out on watching the royal wedding on TV.. what a shame!)
Unfortunately a low cloud base meant we could not get into the local area, so we stayed on the ground and I got to see the royal wedding after all – hurrah…

So on the 30th I went up and the weather was better – we flew into the local area and I learned to do

a precautionary landing. These are quite fun to do actually, a bit like a forced landing but you have power so you get to fly down to 500′ and browse your intended field, then do a downwind and approach it. We also did some forced landings.

One main part we looked at which is quite important is leaning the local area – soon I will be doing local area solo so I need to make sure I don’t get lost. The map section on the right is the area I need to learn.

0.9 hours in g-wace with McGeoghan. We did ex 17, precautionary landings, forced landings, local area familiarisation and practise pans. Total hours flown so far = 24

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Flying Revision – after 6 months on the ground!

May 7, 2011 by admin

So after 6 months of not flying, I had my first lesson of 2011 on 22nd April.

Because of my lack of recent flying, and being with a new instructor, the lessons was simply revision. We flew into the local area, did steep turns and also stalls in various configurations. Even though i’d not flown for 6 months I was nice and accurate – steep turns to CPL standard!

1 hour in g-wacg with McGeoghan. We did revision – steep turns, stalls. Total hours flown so far = 23.1

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