"We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power." Karen Blixen
"Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all..." Beryl Markham
Sporty's Flight School - Learn to Fly is an online Ground School course. It is divided into six sections: 1) Your First Few Hours; 2) Practice Landings; 3) Your First Solo; 4) Your Dual Cross Countries; 5) Your Solo Cross Countries; 6) Your Private Pilot Test. Topics include Introduction to the Airplane, Cockpit, Engines, Instruments (26 sessions in 1); Aerodynamics, Stalls, Normal Landings, Takeoff & Landing Variations (15 sessions in 2) and so forth throughout the course. The goal is the learn about flying and, eventually, pass the written private pilot test and after that, the flying test.
I thought about quitting during the lesson on Stalls. Part of the lesson includes the following:
Practicing stalls will also help you learn the low airspeed flight characteristics of the airplane, and how to control it at low air speeds.
Part of your practice will include recognizing the first indications of a stall – these are called imminent stalls.
When practicing imminent stalls, the recovery is made at the first indication of a stall. The airplane is not allowed to become fully stalled. The object of this maneuver is to avoid a full stall.
When doing full stalls, the stall is allowed to progress until full up elevator, buffeting, and nose down pitching are reached.
During recovery from a fully stalled condition, you need to recover with a minimum loss of altitude and without entering a secondary stall.
A secondary stall occurs when the pitch attitude is raised too soon or too high during the first stall recovery. Recover in the normal way.
Stalls are especially dangerous when they occur close to the ground or if the pilot tries to recover in the wrong way.
That's right....you need to know what each item on the list is talking about. It doesn't help that they have several Cessna 172 and the instrument panel is arranged differently in each. I hope to get the same airplane on the next flight.
I was very busy last flight and didn't have time to take any photos, except this one before starting. I will try to get some on the next flight.
Perhaps, during one of those practice stalls.