Quote:SimV Private Pilot:
1-Plan a flight of 50nm or more, accounting for winds aloft and their affect on heading and ground-speed. Calculate the minimum fuel needed (including reserves) and the maximum payload at that fuel level.
2-Fly the planned flight holding heading (+/- 10 degrees) and altitude (+/- 100 feet); enter the traffic pattern safely; execute a touch-and-go and fly one complete lap around the pattern and then execute a full-stop, short-field landing.
3-Execute a short-field takeoff.
4-Execute a constant-airspeed, climbing turn.
5-Track a VOR radial and fly to an NDB.
6-Execute a 360 degree, steep turn (greater than 45 degrees bank) holding altitude +/- 100 feet and rolling out on heading +/- 10 degrees.
7-Execute a no-flap landing.
This might seem like a relatively "easy" part of flight training... and it is, technically. If you get just one thing out of it, it should be a good understanding of how flaps effect aerodynamics. The old, "give-n-take".
Flying a few laps around the pattern, alternating between full-flap landings, and no-flap landings, will cement it in your sub-conscious.
Practice goals:
With no wind and clear weather; get up into the pattern, and shoot a few touch-n-gos, like you normally would. Get settled into a routine where you're holding pattern altitude consistently, and hitting the runway where you intend, coming in AT ~70kias.
Then... throw in a few landings with NO flaps ...
The specifics of what you experience, and why, and how it might apply to a "real" situation; will be the meat of this thread.
This exercise, is also a good reminder of how important it is, to look past the tedious part of training. Just getting up into a pattern, and flying it accurately, can test your attention span. I know all too well how easy it is, to fall into the lazy, "Welll , I
would have done it more realistically in a real plane, I'll just pretend that I didn't take a short-cut"
Even though it is realistic (and common) to just cut a pattern short, in an empty pattern, at an un-controlled airport.... Or, dive for the numbers at a controlled airport, once you're cleared to land ( I know that sounds odd, but you "can" do it, legally) (and at airports with flight schools, it does happen often, when practicing engine-out landings)... you need to have a stable, constant test situation when you're trying to learn something specific. SO... take the time to fly the pattern a few times, accurately and realistically, and then start alternating between flap and no-flap landings. It's really good for practicing deliberate pitch/power/attitude flying
And lays down the foundation for a type of piloting called, "constant airspeed flying". When we're polishing our instrument skills.. it will make perfect sense
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