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slipstreamsurfrI took the day off work. A cold front coming through. Nice winds to do some ground ref on. Nice to shoot some good crosswind landings. Everything is good right?
For the good stuff.
It all started out pretty good today. My first landing at Cleburne was a go-around because I was far too left of the centerline in the wind. I wasn't happy at all with it. Mischa wasn't happy with it. He called for it about the same time I was getting ready to do it on my own. The second attempt was much better. Running the landings with little flaps today due to the aggressive winds. Lots of side slips. Tried a short forward slip once. It wasn't great, it wasn't bad, I was slow to get the nose down, this will come back to plague me today. The wind was anywhere from 15 to 17 to 21 knots at the various places we landed today. Anywhere from 20 to 40 degrees off the runway headings. Quite a lot of fun. It felt really good to get the landings nailed. Mischa called for some short field landings and they turned in really well.
Off we went back across the country towards Midway. The hood comes out and I'm under it for most of the flight back. Climbs, descents, turns, slow flight, stalls. It all seems to work fairly well. The hood comes off and an engine out is done. Where to do want to land. I look around. That field over there? How about the gliderport under us. Well, that would be better I admit. I get myself pitched for best glide, turn towards it, and run the engine out flow, touching everything as I talk, and what I'll do if I don't get it restarted.
Good he says, you've got the field made and we go off to work on some ground ref. Turns around the point. They start to come back, it's been a while. They aren't perfect. Nothing is perfect today. Everything is a little off. Wind? It is stiff today. We go off to find a nice rectangular field to do rectangles around a course. I have a bit of a problem getting blown in close on one side. A few turns around and some rather excessive crab angles and things are looking a lot better.
Now we head to Midway. We shoot several landings there, things are going well until he pulls the power and tells me I've lost my engine, land it from here. Pitch for best glide, turn towards the runway and go to slip it in without flaps. My feet and hands get crossways for a moment and once I sort them out I slip. The nose comes up and we start to get slow. I see what I've done and go to fix it, decide that I've really botched the final on this and do a go around. So what was wrong with it Mischa asks. I got behind things in the wind, I was far too out on the centerline to pull it back in a reasonable way. And.... he prompts. And I pulled the nose on the slip, what I shouldn't do, ever. Right he said. Don't do it again. Another pattern is flown and I push for the slip and things are much better. The nose doesn't rise, I get it down and reasonable on the centerline. A fair landing. Power in and we are off again. One more pattern and I'm on final and go to roll in the forward slip and again, I pull the nose when I put my foot in and the speed bleeds. I see it, nose it forward, but I had been slow, and the stall warning bleeped then silenced. My plane Mischa says. Go-around. Please radio the field and tell them we are departing the area towards Arlington.
Radio call is done and I know. I know I've really mucked it up today. Mischa and I talk on the way back towards GKY. Do I know how most stall/spin accidents happen on final? Yes. Do I know that you don't pull the nose in the slip? Yes. How can I impress on you to not get slow on final like that. Carol won't pass you if you do something like that on your test. And she has every right NOT to pass you. You shouldn't have a license if you aren't safe. You can never let the nose come up. It should be trained out of you to ever let that happen. You can't let the nose come up in a forward slip. Ever. I know, I told him. He's blaming himself too, for missing something, for not finding a better way to show me, to make me aware, to keep me from making the mistake.
We do some forward slips on the way back to GKY. The first one I botch badly, not pulling the nose, but not getting the aileron in fast enough and I'd ruddered us into a turn away from the course. Mischa does one left, then right. He calls for some more. I do one to the left, no bob. I do one to the right, no bob up, perhaps pushed a bit too hard. We do one last one and I don't pull it. I call the tower, and they clear us on a base to final. I set things up and run the final down and use a short forward slip, no bob up to the landing.
The tower clears us off the runway and to taxi to parking.
Mischa told me nice flying today. Not a single landing all day had any side load on the gear in any of the rather extreme crosswinds we'd had today. My air work was spot on like it almost always is. The ground ref was reasonable, the hood work was good. But we've got to fix it so that you never pull the nose in a forward slip.
Why do I keep making these stupid mistakes. I know better. I know HOW to fly. Why can't I just fly the dang thing right.
--2.5 dual
--12 landings
next flight, early saturday morning, dual.. try to show I'm safe...
For the good stuff.
It all started out pretty good today. My first landing at Cleburne was a go-around because I was far too left of the centerline in the wind. I wasn't happy at all with it. Mischa wasn't happy with it. He called for it about the same time I was getting ready to do it on my own. The second attempt was much better. Running the landings with little flaps today due to the aggressive winds. Lots of side slips. Tried a short forward slip once. It wasn't great, it wasn't bad, I was slow to get the nose down, this will come back to plague me today. The wind was anywhere from 15 to 17 to 21 knots at the various places we landed today. Anywhere from 20 to 40 degrees off the runway headings. Quite a lot of fun. It felt really good to get the landings nailed. Mischa called for some short field landings and they turned in really well.
Off we went back across the country towards Midway. The hood comes out and I'm under it for most of the flight back. Climbs, descents, turns, slow flight, stalls. It all seems to work fairly well. The hood comes off and an engine out is done. Where to do want to land. I look around. That field over there? How about the gliderport under us. Well, that would be better I admit. I get myself pitched for best glide, turn towards it, and run the engine out flow, touching everything as I talk, and what I'll do if I don't get it restarted.
Good he says, you've got the field made and we go off to work on some ground ref. Turns around the point. They start to come back, it's been a while. They aren't perfect. Nothing is perfect today. Everything is a little off. Wind? It is stiff today. We go off to find a nice rectangular field to do rectangles around a course. I have a bit of a problem getting blown in close on one side. A few turns around and some rather excessive crab angles and things are looking a lot better.
Now we head to Midway. We shoot several landings there, things are going well until he pulls the power and tells me I've lost my engine, land it from here. Pitch for best glide, turn towards the runway and go to slip it in without flaps. My feet and hands get crossways for a moment and once I sort them out I slip. The nose comes up and we start to get slow. I see what I've done and go to fix it, decide that I've really botched the final on this and do a go around. So what was wrong with it Mischa asks. I got behind things in the wind, I was far too out on the centerline to pull it back in a reasonable way. And.... he prompts. And I pulled the nose on the slip, what I shouldn't do, ever. Right he said. Don't do it again. Another pattern is flown and I push for the slip and things are much better. The nose doesn't rise, I get it down and reasonable on the centerline. A fair landing. Power in and we are off again. One more pattern and I'm on final and go to roll in the forward slip and again, I pull the nose when I put my foot in and the speed bleeds. I see it, nose it forward, but I had been slow, and the stall warning bleeped then silenced. My plane Mischa says. Go-around. Please radio the field and tell them we are departing the area towards Arlington.
Radio call is done and I know. I know I've really mucked it up today. Mischa and I talk on the way back towards GKY. Do I know how most stall/spin accidents happen on final? Yes. Do I know that you don't pull the nose in the slip? Yes. How can I impress on you to not get slow on final like that. Carol won't pass you if you do something like that on your test. And she has every right NOT to pass you. You shouldn't have a license if you aren't safe. You can never let the nose come up. It should be trained out of you to ever let that happen. You can't let the nose come up in a forward slip. Ever. I know, I told him. He's blaming himself too, for missing something, for not finding a better way to show me, to make me aware, to keep me from making the mistake.
We do some forward slips on the way back to GKY. The first one I botch badly, not pulling the nose, but not getting the aileron in fast enough and I'd ruddered us into a turn away from the course. Mischa does one left, then right. He calls for some more. I do one to the left, no bob. I do one to the right, no bob up, perhaps pushed a bit too hard. We do one last one and I don't pull it. I call the tower, and they clear us on a base to final. I set things up and run the final down and use a short forward slip, no bob up to the landing.
The tower clears us off the runway and to taxi to parking.
Mischa told me nice flying today. Not a single landing all day had any side load on the gear in any of the rather extreme crosswinds we'd had today. My air work was spot on like it almost always is. The ground ref was reasonable, the hood work was good. But we've got to fix it so that you never pull the nose in a forward slip.
Why do I keep making these stupid mistakes. I know better. I know HOW to fly. Why can't I just fly the dang thing right.
--2.5 dual
--12 landings
next flight, early saturday morning, dual.. try to show I'm safe...