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Subject: Flight Training!?!
Flight Training Journal
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 plexiglass 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 too
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-fiancé'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
gray 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. Foxtrot Lima X-Ray 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 gray.
Thursday: Left flaps down for entire flight. Instructor asked why.
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.
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