Lesson 4: Ex 6.2 Straight and level part 2

Quite a big day in terms of the new stuff i completed:

Performed my first radio chat (East Midlands Ground, G-CDON request radio check and taxi with information whisky)
Did the full take off - full throttle=, elevate at 70knots climb, bank left - rate 1 turn up to 2000ft.
Did the full landing, straight and level descent, towards the power station, rate 1 turn left onto the runway heading, descended nice and slowly, 2 stages of flap, 70 knots, touched down nicely slightly right of the center line (Runway 27)

The main excercise of the day - Straight and level was quite difficult to follow, remain at a certain altitude, change the speed to X and then trim it out. Involves adjusting pitch to get the correct speed, throttling back or forward to keep rpm in the correct place, PAT ??? Need to check this as James was telling me to adjust the pitch to gain the correct speed and then adjust the power.

I found i was chasing the plane too much, making too many modifications without lettng the plane settle down first.

We also had an bit of fun when James forgot to watch where we were going and the RT told us to call Coventry ILS as we were approaching them, a sharp 180 turn and a thanks and apology over the radio and we were sorted - nice one James :)

All in all a hard day, but a good one, take off, landing, and i did manage to trim out right near the end so james was happywe didnt need to revist straight and level again - so onto the next lesson :)