New2flying

53 minutes ago, Markdun said:

I also agree with Nev and Bruce. Gliders are conventional aircraft.  As regards landing, I’ve only flown gliders with one wheel and a tail skid, and landing is as per conventional for any tail dragger; fly a conventional circuit, control glide slope with spoiler/brakes or side slip, using the spoiler/brakes/side slip like you would with a throttle, except you can’t do a go around, or like a dead stick landing in a powered aircraft. Cross wind landing is by crabbing not wing down....wing down risks a ground loop from touching a wing tip on the ground.  Most gliders will also pull up fast, say if that fence is coming up too fast, by doing a wheeler landing, applying wheel brakes if you have them and pushing the stick forward to rub the forward under fuselage in front of the wheel on the grass. They also pull up faster if you keep the undercarriage retracted.  
I’ve assumed you understand the difference between nose wheel and tail dragger aircraft in that the centre of mass in a nose wheel aircraft is forward of the main wheels, and so when the mains touch the runway on landing the nose drops and this reduces the AoA on the wings, reducing lift.  On a tail dragger the opposite happens, so if you land with airspeed above stall, the tendency is for the nose to pitch up, increasing the AoA, and you will balloon back into the air.

There are also considerations about how spoilers/brakes affect stalling. The gliding club I belonged to regularly had landing ‘competitions’.  We would put a row of toi toi (pampas grass) across tge runway to simulate a fence.  The winner was the person who went clear over the row of pampas grass and pulled up closest to them.  One time a young bloke came in with the club Blanik, real slow, brakes in, pulled up over the pampas and then snapped the brakes out.  The glider immediately stalled about 1.2m above the ‘runway’ with almost no forward speed, coming to a stop about two plane lengths from the pampas fence.....a hard landing, but easily the shortest. The CFI disqualified him.

CFIs have powers to take your licence? I never knew that.

I started learning how to glide. I've done almost 20 flights now in a sailplane, they generally have a nose wheel, a wheel in the middle, and a tailwheel. How different is it for a pilot to land one of these aircraft to say a convention powered aircraft with or without a tailwheel?

Such raw emotion in this video.

On 17/01/2021 at 7:02 PM, poteroo said:

 

I'd suggest the RAAus Operations Manager or Assistant Ops Manager for a chat.   You might also send a written request, (email), for your file from that flying school - it is yours, and they must provide it within a reasonable time.  If it doesn't turn up, then the RAAus Ops Mgr would be very interested.

 

Keep at it.

I followed this advice. She said that she would only give it to another CFI, which I found ridiculous. I instructed a lawyer.

15 hours ago, spacesailor said:

Hey !, I might do that email, to my old flying club !, as I did Not get my logbook filled, after that disaster flight.

AS a matter of fact, the same thing happened for my first entry,  every one to busy to SIGN my log book.

So the first entry is not signed.

spacesailor

 

My book isn't signed either? Does it need to be signed?

1 hour ago, farri said:

Hi, New2flying! I held an Australian Ultralight Federation (AUF) CFI rating and ran my own CAA/AUF approved flying school for 12 years before retiring from instructing, several years ago...When anyone came to me for advice on learning to fly, I would tell them to find a good instructor who they could communicate effectively with.

 

If for whatever reason you can`t communicate effectively with the instructor, regardless of who the instructor might be, it is going to make it difficult, if not impossible, to get the best out of your lessons! if you truly want to learn to fly, don`t take the easier, cheaper, alternative! it may be the dearest, in the end. 

 

Franco.

Thanks Franco. I am somewhat relieved in a way, that I don't have to travel large distances. I think Susan's instruction was sufficient but it wasn't the greatest, and I realise just like with my teeth, I need to spend that extra to find someone who I'm comfortable with. This may be easier to say in retrospect, but I wasn't sure about my life being in her hands in all honesty. I do need a male teacher, and having said that, I want someone who is going to be 100% honest with me. I'm glad I've had this experience.

Thank you for your insight, and many others on here. It's been such a mental uncoupling.

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8 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Had to chuckle at the runway on Cocos-Keeling Islands. The Cocos Malays love their bantams, and they are on the loose (feral) everywhere. They can fly quite a distance (100M+) and reach probably 15M in altitude.

As there's no runway fencing on Cocos' West Island, the aircraft prepares for takeoff - and the bloke in the runway ute, barrels up and down the runway, chasing the bantams back into the bush surrounding the runway!

 

When he gives the all-clear, the flight can take off. I don't know if any aircraft has had a bantam strike on takeoff there, but I've never heard of one, the bantams seem to know to keep clear of the aircraft.

I got a fridge magnet from when we stayed on Cocos - it's got a cartoon drawing of five, wild-looking bantams on it, and the caption, "Feral Chook Island"! 

I had to laugh at that!

3 minutes ago, SSCBD said:

Is she the CFI  or just an instructor? Is the flying school owned by someone else. If she is not the CFI or the owner go above her head and complain and get the truth plus they have lost money and reputation.  If she is the god of the flying school  - walk away.

Sorry for your bad experience.

She isn't the CFI. Her de-facto is though. So I didn't bother trying to reason with him because you know, I figured he'd side with her anyway. I think there were only 3-4 instructors including them both there anyway, so if she didn't want to, presumably her husband is a no, and if she didn't the other two to train me - it's gonna roll like that.

13 minutes ago, FlyBoy1960 said:

Some people should never fly, just enjoy going for rides with people and life the dream from the other seat !

Thanks for your "assessment". I am certainly capable of flying. 

Just now, spacesailor said:

You don,t have to do, or say anything, people take Dislikes for No apparent reason !.

Just move on somewhere else.

You could end up Happy.

It happened to me also.

spacesailor

 

Thanks for your advice. The saddest part of it all is that this school offered the most economical price in terms of RAAus instructors, the proximity to the school, the need not to get an ASIC clearance and medical. Now I have to go through the hoops of doing these, plus probably pay an extra $100 dollars for a different training aircraft as the new one doesn't offer the Tecnam I started in. These things add up.

It's also the depression of not knowing. Most persons I have had difficulties in life had the maturity to tell me what I've done wrong, at very least, and if they're kind enough to - to offer to remedy my behaviour. None of these were extended to me. It occupies some of my thinking, also, that maybe I'm a victim of a rumour.

Sounds scary. Fortunately I found this:
http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_reg/car1988263/s256a.html

Still nothing definitive about the presence of pets in the clubrooms, however.

A pilot at the airport has a regular habit of bringing their two dogs by ute to the airport, where it just lounges around in the offices/common area. Sometimes even accompanies them to cockpit, secure areas of the airport? Surely this isn't allowed? Would anyone be able to assist me in finding the specific regulation if it is/isn't allowed?

Flying an aeroplane was something I definitely wanted to learn how to do. It isn't my greatest passion. But I still wanted to do it, so I enrolled at Secure Air Flight Training in Shepparton. It was perfect, the airport is less than a 10 minute walk away and I had hoped to have regular lessons. I had three flights, basically teaching me the basics of the controls, turns, and climbs and descends. I had booked in for my fourth lesson.

This is where it got a bit strange. The instructor, Susan informed me that she would advise me on the weather before she'd inform me on the date, but I never received a text message. I called her, and we had a conversation on the phone where she basically informed me that I lacked commitment and suffered too badly from nervousness in the sky. The foundations of these beliefs, in my opinion, were faulty, and she just wanted to drop me as a student. That's fine, everyone has their quirks. However, the follow up I had in person despite having a similar tone, had a dishonest vibrato with me. I felt treated worse than a dog, when she informed me she would practically prohibit her other employees in training me for the RAAus certificate.

This has disturbed me. I do not take lightly to people hurting my dreams, and I have enquired with a different school at the Shepparton airport. Could someone give me insight what I could have done wrong for her to react in such a manner?