Joined the club today........

Hi Bob,


Since you have 35 years experience as an instructore, perhaps you can
help me.
I am attending flying school PART61 and jsut fly one time. But aI was
able to land the airplane by my self, thanks to Flight SImulator.
Based on my 15 years experience on the Flight Simulator, do you have
any input as far as a program that fits with me? The school offered me
a standart program for a student that have zero knowledge about
airplane, and I believe I am about one or two step ahead of them.
I am familiar with S Turn, Steep Turn, Lazy 8, Traffic Patern,
Rectagle, Touch and Go etc.
I also Familiar with the preflight check, VFR, IFR Learning ADF, NDP
and also using approach plate. On my first flight lesson, I learned
Climb, Descend, Turn and Straight and level perfectly and plus landed
the cessna 152 right in the middle.
Based on your experience, Could you please give me an input regarding a
type of program that can be customize for me. Of course i am hoping
that my skilll from Fligth Sim will safe me money big time.

The flying school will teach me a radio comm and flight patern after 20
hour dual flight or meeting number 20th. What happen while during the
lesson, my instructure passed out and I have no idea waht to say on the
radio.

Thank you Bob for your time

Thank you Bob, I appreciate your time.




Bob Moore wrote:
I'm sure you are correct, and I seriously thought about taking off, but
on a second solo, with all the flying in the circuits so closely pinned
to airspeeds, I'm glad I didn't. I certainly wouldn't have felt
confident about knowing how far I was from stall speed on final......

As a 35 year flight instructor, I feel that you received inadequate
pre-solo training. The pattern can (and perhaps should) be flown by
the use of pitch and power only. Set the power and pitch correctly
and the airspeed will be there. No student of mine has ever soloed
without flying an entire lesson (in and out of the pattern) with the
entire instrument panel completely covered except for the tachometer.
RPM settings....Takeoff and climb to pattern altitude...Full Power,
Downwind in a C-172, about 2100 RPM...who cares what the airspeed is?
Abeam the touchdown spot, set 1500 RPM, lower the nose and keep the
nose down, lower first noch flaps, who cares what the airspeed is?
I'll bet that it settles out at 85kts. On base leg, second notch of
flaps keeping the nose down and the airspeed WILL back right down to
75kts. Turn final, keep the nose down (still with 1500 RPM) and drop
final flap and the airspeed WILL drop to 65kts. Who needs an airspeed
indicator? Only an inexperienced flight instructor! They scare easily. :-)
I still don't understand your "I ran out of rudder" comment, the faster
you go, the more rudder control you have.

BTW, here in the USofA, ultralights aren't even required to have such
things as altimeters and airspeed indicators.....and mine didn't.

Bob Moore
CFI ATP
B-707 B-727
PanAm (retired)