First lesson back after the break

Well the initial 9am lesson was cancelled but the weather turned out quite nice and sunny by lunch so had my lesson at 13:30.

Was a bit nervous about getting back into the saddle as i knew Doug would throw me in at the deep end, and what with my memory being seive like i thought i would struggle. I did revise some of the checks before going - pre- landing and made sure i could rememeber the radio calls.

Anyway, we did a variet of stuff in the lesson , all revision stuff, PFL's, Stalling and Steep Turns.
Didnt do too bad at the stalling, bit rusty but got there in the end.

Power back 15Krpm
Keep pulling back to keep the nose there
Wait for the stall warner, keep it there
Push the nose forward, full power

With flap (as above)
full power, When stable, no stall warner and +ve rate climg - remove drag flap
Wait for positive rate of climb on VSI and ALT remove second stage flap
Repeat to remove last stage.

With flap in turn
as above
full power nose down, no aileron
as soon as stable straighten up

Whole concept is to loose as little height as possible - Doug used the analogy of landing and it all goes wrong.

PFLs' - made a bit of a mess of these - im useless at finding a field - just too many of them - got the wind direction right, but picked fields too far away - Doug gave me another pointer - in no wind, use fields 0.5 - 0.75 along the wing.
I need to revise all the checks and the calls for this

I also need to revise the HASELL checks and memorise them ! :(

Did the zone entry fine, got down to 2K for the zone, pre-landing checks but came in too high after setting QFE - didnt get down to 1K, then left the final setup a little late, but landing was acceptable - although i did dump the nose in a little.

All in all - not bad considering in at the deepend and 3 months gap, radio was pretty good too.

Another one booked for tomorrow AM :)