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gazellis 01-10-2004 08:01 AM

This was kind of funny.....



Student Flight Log



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 maneuver. Cover

instructor with lunch.

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Week 2



Monday: Learned not to scrape frost off Plexiglas 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.

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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-fiancée¹s

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!

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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. Three Niner Juliet 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 he cried before.

Fluid Dynamics 01-10-2004 08:48 AM

Lol!! You are so funny. You lost your lunch during your first stall? My first few power on stalls made me sick. I haven't tried a spin, but I also gave up on getting my license.



Great work though; it sounds like you are making progress. Those airline captains have big heads anyways. They think they can do anything they want because their bird is bigger than your Cessna.

gazellis 01-10-2004 08:57 AM

This really did not happen to me, it was just a joke forwarded to me by my Father. I have actually never gotten sick from flying, in fact it is just the opposite. I absolutely love every aspect of flying...stalls, steep turns, inverted flight (yes I have flown some aerobatics). I am just very fortunate that I work in a profession that can afford me the pleasure of flying. If I had to do it all over again, I probably would choose flying as a career even though the job prospects right now aren't as great as they were in the late 80's early 90's.

94touring 01-10-2004 06:46 PM

I had a video of me doing a spin hosted on here by someone.

suganuma 01-10-2004 08:26 PM

haha....



I am getting my PPL right now


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