PPL Lesson 4 (pt2), Ex 7, 8, 9

Carrying on from the last lesson the weather had now turned to drizzle and broken clouds with the odd bit of sunshine thrown in. This time it was turning in a climb and descent and an introduction to stalling.

So I start to climb past 2000ft and half way through Matt throws in a request to change heading by 40 degrees whilst maintaining the climb. That didn't go too bad but having to remember all the checks as well as what I was learning in the lesson was a but daunting.

Whilst we were up there Matt ran me through slow flight by flying on the drag curve and handed over to let me fly it with the stall warning constantly on. It's amazing how much control you loose on the wings at that speed.

Still, as the lesson went on it became easier and easier, this really was like learning to drive the car and I felt really confident by the time I got to the end of the lesson, so much that I orbited for a while to let an airbus through then called for landing clearance, flaps down, set the RPM, checks done and lined up to land. Final stage of flaps in, power off and flare..... touchdown, awesome. We taxi'd down to our spot behind an airbus which was kinda strange as you feel so small !


Lesson Over and back for a de-brief before planning the next lesson on Thursday which is slow flight and stalling. Fingers crossed for some good weather.