The 5th Hour

 Wow what a flight!
 Today the weather was a little bit questionable. we had about a 4500 foot ceiling, with wind that made most of the maneuvers a little bit more difficult.  We worked on some more ground reference maneuvers, including turns around a point, rectangle patterns and s turns. Also threw some stalls in there like last week, and we actually worked on some power on stalls too!
     Power on stalls are to simulate taking off with full power, and stalling the aircraft while you are very close to the ground. So practicing these is important, because if it happens, you need to be able to recover quickly to avoid a problem.
    In "The 5th hour" it was cloudy and overcast, but we were able to find clear spots to do some training in. However the sun liked to poke its head out every once in a while.It seemed to shoot right through our field of vision every time we found a clear spot. Oh well! the ground reference maneuvers went a little bit better this time, because i understood ahead what we needed to do.

   When we went for the turns around a point, the wind would play with the airplane, and i had to learn to correct for that with the bank angle. This was also the case with s turns and rectangles too, but i could really tell when we did the Turns around a point.

 Today James and I had a special passenger with us...my mom! She wanted to ride along, so today she gave me a ride to the field, and in turn got to ride along for the lesson. I didn't know for sure what we were going to do during the flight, so i invited her to come along.. Little to my knowledge James had planned on working on stalls more.But mom enjoyed them a lot and we had a lot of fun flying! I guess this means that some day she wont worry about my flying in Alaska!

In all it was a great flight.. but today i was a little bit rust from not flying in two weeks. ( James was gone to England and the weather was not that great) The rust will be kicked off for sure when i start memorizing the checklist, memorizing the maneuvers and things so when he says something, i already know ahead of time what to do and expect.

 Well, short post for now, but i have to head off to work, maybe ill ad some later.
  Sunny skies and tailwinds!