LESSON #10

 


The Sim...

So today (because of weather) I was in the simulator again.  Ignite Flight actually has two, but I was on the "real" simulator today.  It's kinda crazy how real it actually feels.  The sim takes up an entire room and I can hook up my headphones to talk to my instructor and practice pretty much everything here that I do when flying.  The programs they run are even for the Lincoln Airport.  So all the runways, ramps, and taxi areas are just like LNK.  The picture above is what I was "flying" on today!

Matt (my instructor), had me doing turns again like we did the last time we were able to fly.  I'm getting those better.  I'm understanding how to use my rudder in a turn.  I'm even understanding slow flight better. I don't like it, but I'm understanding it.  And then today --- TODAY I LANDED!!!  Now, I get that I landed in the sim, but, it really does feel real!  And what's cool is that I can keep repeating landings over and over again.  In a span of about 5 minutes I landed approximately 10 times!  I got one close to perfect.  The rest were bumpy, but I think the first time I have to do this for real, hopefully I will do alright.  We were in the sim for a little over an hour.  All this practice is so helpful and the more I do in the plane and simulator the more I understand the words and concepts during ground school.  Here we are at lesson 10 and I feel much better about things than I did even three lessons ago.

Matt went over some of the quizzes I had taken to explain a little more why I had missed the ones I had missed.  We also discussed the most common reason people crash planes -- fuel.  People run out of fuel!  With all the things we check and double check and try to be careful about you'd think fuel would be one of the easier things to make sure is good!  

Next week, I actually will have some different instructors!  I'm kind of curious how the different instructors teach!


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