Hildy Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 tough going again today. 15kt headwind. turbulent landings. sfGnome: that LSA will do a reasonable 30degree bank turn hands off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildy Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 sfGnome: my instructor thinks that that particular LSA55 is set up for single person use and the weight of the right seat occupant is what is making it always roll right. to prove it, he got out. I then learnt what the term 'homesick angel' means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfGnome Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Cool Hildy! Was that first solo? And apart from getting to 1000AGL before turning crosswind, did it make a difference to the trim? I've never noticed the presence of a passenger affecting the trim before - climb yes, but not trim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildy Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 yes, that was my first solo. the LSA55 only has elevator trim so it didn't affect that, but with a right seat, I had to keep constant left stick pressure. without, I could almost let go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acky Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Congrats on your solo Hildy, It's a good feeling. They certainly do like to climb without the added weight of the instructor in the right seat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsor68 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Congratulations from me too on your first solo Hildy... I recently found on my first that getting rid of the instructor added an easy 300fpm to the climb rate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildy Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I think it was more than 300fpm. more like 500fpm. climbed at something like 1700fpm without the instructor, on a cold dense morning. also much harder to force down. i may have pushed the "simulation" part of the exercise a bit by coming in low and flat, throttled back. pretty heavy. nailing that final crosswind landing when my instructor called me in due to adverse winds felt really good. just need my last 4 solo hours and I'll be about ready is what my instructor says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Well, got my XC endo today. Flew from Murray Bridge to Gawler with a brief stopover at Rowland Flat. Was a good flight and I didn't do anything much wrong so all legal to go to Temora now! So in 4 and a half months and 32 hours I've gone from having a PPL® (not having flown for almost 20 years) to having a RA Pilot cert with XC, passenger and radio endos. Pretty happy overall and looking forward to Temora now. We're leaving Thursday and will arrive sometime Thursday arvo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J170 Owner Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Cool bananas! Flying into gawler on a Wednesday or Saturday is your best bet to mingle with a crowd with coffee or coke etc. Rowland flat can be fun. Truro Flats is a good stop as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Well I got to mingle with a bunch of gliders when I arrived there for my touch and go! That was fun. There were gliders parked all over the runways and when they heard my inbound call they moved them all off the runways for me - was a lot of fun! I'll be stopping at Truro at some stage once I get back from Temora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Of course not :) Anyway, this was my test and I had to prove I could join and land at a fairly busy aerodrome so I didn't have much choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskpilot Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Congratulations Thirsty. Was nice meeting you yesterday, the first fellow forumite I've ever met I believe. OOPs, brain fade, just remembered a couple of others, soo sorry guys and gals. Bugger this getting old bit. Thank God I haven't forgotten how to fly. Yesterday was the first time since November last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildy Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 congrats, thirsty! poor weather has grounded me from getting my XC endo so no temora for me! especially given the camping situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Posted April 19, 2011 Author Share Posted April 19, 2011 Deskpilot - yes was good to meet you to - yo're definately the first forum member I've met! Hildy - I was cutting it very close. If I didn't get it I would have been doing a very long navex :) Sorry to hear you can't make it too. We are camping underwing at this stage though I've made another post asking if anyone is renting a house I could take a room in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 Hey all, just thought I'd revive this old post and let you all know what I've been up to. I now have about 130 hrs and am almost finished my instructor rating. I have tw, ts and lp endos now as well - in a 582 lightwing. I've been an l2 for a while now and have done lots of work on jabs mostly. I have also bought a 160 with a couple of mates. We bought the aircraft in Perth and flew it home over 2 days. A very interesting trip that taught us a lot about planning and weather. We departed kalgoorlie heading for Forrest for our overnight stay but didnt quite make it. We ran out of daylight well before last light but it was stormy and cloudy so the light wasn't too good. We put down on a bush strip about 60 miles short of Forrest. I wouldn't have wanted to do another circuit as it was getting fairly dark. We didn't have any camping gear so we spent a very long night in and under the plane! It blew about 30knots all night and it rained on and off. A miserable night! We departed that strip at 4:30am and arrived home at YMBD at 5:45, a very long day with headwinds and turbulence the whole way. Anyway, that's where I'm at and I'm very glad I stuck with it. Reading back over this thread I can't believe the trouble i had at the beginning But it's been very rewarding! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J170 Owner Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Forrest, WA. That's is an interesting spot. Nothing there except two big bitumen runways. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 Forrest is there for Virgin apparently. The aircraft they use to fly to Perth don't have the range to hold long enough I think so Forrest is their alternate. It's very strange landing on those huge runways in a J160! We felt like we were in a 737 or something :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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