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Jul 14th, 2009 at 7:44pm

skoker   Offline
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Grin  My first flight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdmRIDnVwjA

*ignore the stall horn!
 


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Reply #1 - Jul 14th, 2009 at 8:07pm

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Not bad. Wink Grin


Did you do a few touch-and-go's or just one landing?
 

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Reply #2 - Jul 14th, 2009 at 8:51pm

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Just one Smiley
 


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Reply #3 - Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:33pm

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Nice, were you nervous? Smiley
 
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Reply #4 - Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:03pm

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Only at takeoff.  Thats what I don't like about flying but I survived Smiley
 


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Reply #5 - Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:42pm

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skoker wrote on Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:03pm:
Only at takeoff.  Thats what I don't like about flying but I survived Smiley

Huh, ive never flown so I cant really say this but I love the takeoffs...
Grin

The approach is what makes me nervous and thats only on a simulation... Grin
 
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Reply #6 - Jul 16th, 2009 at 1:58pm

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Good job! And don't feel bad about the stall warning horn... doesn't mean you have stalled, just means you are close to a stall.
If you'd actually stalled completely at that height above the runway, the landing would have been much less smooth! Grin
You kinda dropped it on, but no much, and that's normal and acceptable. Better that than touching down too "hot"!  Shocked
Ideally, you should hear that horn go off just as you touch down. If you hear it sooner, you're a hair slow... if you don't hear it at all, you're touching down with too much speed.
But they vary... some are calibrated better than others, and sometimes they just don't work. Sometimes you may hear a very faint whine on sort final when you know you have a good speed margin... and sometimes the darned thing doesn't make a sound even when you know for sure you stalled at touchdown. 
Better to be able to "feel" it yourself, and in time you will.
 

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Reply #7 - Jul 16th, 2009 at 9:19pm

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way to go...that was in my view a good touch down....any landing you walk away from is a good one Wink...are you going for you licence?
 

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Reply #8 - Jul 16th, 2009 at 9:37pm

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firemonte007 wrote on Jul 16th, 2009 at 9:19pm:
way to go...that was in my view a good touch down....any landing you walk away from is a good one Wink...are you going for you licence?

soon.... Smiley
 


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Reply #9 - Jul 18th, 2009 at 12:22pm

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Looks really good! I've been in a glider 6-7 times and that's pretty good fun, but i've always wanted to pilot a powered aircraft.
Well done!
 
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Reply #10 - Jul 23rd, 2009 at 2:18pm

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I thought it stalled at the end but you were alright.. nice job!
 
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Reply #11 - Jul 24th, 2009 at 3:08pm

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Nice job! Better than a few landings I've done...

Had to chuckle a bit at the white knuckles - I think all of us have started by having to pry that right hand off the yoke on landing...

Well done sir!
 

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Reply #12 - Jul 27th, 2009 at 9:17pm

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If that was your first landing, it was superb !  Smiley
 
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