Blog – PPL Exercises 12/11/2023
It’s easy to do a training flight and concentrate on one specific thing. It’s a whole other matter to move from one manoeuvre to another and nail them. This was going to be rough!
We started off with working out take-off and landing distance at maximum weight. Ah the dreaded P-charts! I find these not too bad so managed to work these out ok.
Once in the aircraft, I had to assume that my FI was a passenger, so I had to assume he knew nothing and I had to instruct him on how to get into the aircraft and what to do once in it: e.g. no smoking, don’t touch the stick or dials, stay quiet during radio calls etc. It felt really weird but that’s what happens in the real test, so I just had to run with it.
After some questions from my FI, we taxied to our run up area, and I talked thru what I was doing.
Once lined up on the runway, we started off with a short field take-off and then set off for the training area.
The manoeuvres I was asked to do were:
- Medium turns
- Steep turns
- Basic stall in lean configuration
- Power on stall full flaps
- Wing drop stall full flaps
- Forced landing without power
- Overhead join
- Glide approach and short field landing
- Normal landing
After all this I cleaned up the aircraft and taxied back to the aero club and shut down the aircraft.
Needless to say, I didn’t pass as I had so many issues. The main ones being:
- Fuel pump stayed on entire sortie
- Landing light stayed on entire sortie
- Failed to clear the area on ALL turns
- Failed to maintain best glide speed and altitude during flight to high key point on emergency landing
- Overshot runway on emergency landing
- Failed to use best area to do stalls (High ground)
- Unintentional Wing drop stall prior to power on stall
- 2 x go around attempting glide approach
- Speed fluctuations
- Height fluctuations
- Failed to stop once runway vacated on landing to clean up aircraft flaps, landing light and fuel pump
Remember Team, this was just the main points!
I was gutted that I plain forgot to do so many things. I was trying so hard to ot muck up that I mucked up even more! This is exactly why I tortured myself to do this mock test. I’m a masochist!
So many things to work on going forward but now that I am aware of them, I can work on getting these all resolved.
Until next time…..
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Blog – PPL Exercises 12/11/2023