Blog – PPL Exercises 22/01/2023
Its been ages since I have flown as everything has got more expensive in the last few months. The cost of living in NZ has climbed by over 11% and the flow on from this plus the Christmas season really blew the budget so I have been grounded since September.
I have also decided to take a bit of a new tack and fly with another club that I was in a few years ago that now does Part 61 training. This has made the cost of flying much better but I have had to move back to the old Tomahawk rather than fly a C172sp. This meant that I also had a new CFI, and location to fly in.
It was an almost perfect day for flying with the wind going straight down the runway so any issues were entirely of my own making.
We covered off all the manoeuvres for PPL including wing drop stalls that I had never done before. Its a great manoeuvre and one which I will include in most flights.
Considering the large gap between flights and the fact I was flying a totally different aircraft at a new location, both myself and my CFI were pleased with the skills I was demonstrating. I did balloon on my second landing but I think that was more muscle memory from the 172 rather than feeling the aircraft. Also I need to remember the Carb heat during low power settings which I don’t need to do with the 172 due to that being fuel injected.
All in all a fantastic day of flying. Bring it on!
Aircraft: ZK-JBX (Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk)
Total Time: 0.9
Landings: 2
Go-arounds: 0
Visual Approaches: 2
Until next time….
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Blog – PPL Exercising 22/01/2023