15.Jun.2017
Flight 15
2.0 flight hours
0.0 solo hours
2.5 instructor hours

What we did today

• 3 power failures/emergency landings
• Steep turns
• Slow speed
• Power on stalls
• Power off stalls
• Working the pattern
• Soft field take-off/landing

What worked today:

• 1of 3 emergency landings
• Everything else except steep turns and power off stalls.

What didn't work today:

• 2 of 3 emergency landings would have ended with me as a headline on the news...In one case Rick cut the power abeam the numbers on downwind and I was too far out on the pattern so into the trees we'd have gone. In the second case, i was spiraling down to a private runway and had it nailed but choose to do one more loop and was too low to make the runway.
• Steep turns...sucked today.
• Power off stall. I went 'flaps then power'...totally backward.
• Still landing harder than ideal but the setup is getting more consistent.

 Things to work on:

• Not sure what happened today on steep turns. I usually nail them. I blame it on sun in my eyes.
• I'm at a point where I'll be doing solo work in the training area so I should be able to start doing more repetitive practice.

Prep for next lesson:

•  I think I need to sim a bunch of emergency landings/engine failures just to get used to the process.
• I may also sim stalls. I've been doing nothing but pattern work in the sim so time to see how other maneuvers work when simulated.