DarkSarcasm

I don't even know I'm doing it now, it just comes naturally...

Whilst I have to admit I've slightly lost the plot of this thread (so this response may be entirely irrelevant), I am just going to point out that I fly a Jab and have been taught power for airspeed, elevator for altitude on approach and it works for me...

No info in particular, it just seems to be a highly recommended book by lots of people so figured it was worth a read...

Not asking you to, I'm just hunting for cheap prices.

What an awesome website, thanks :)

Hi gang, Does anyone know where I can get a cheap(ish) preferably new copy of Stick & Rudder? In the bookshops it's $60 (ouch!) and the cheapest I've found so far on the internet is $32 (inc shipping) on Amazon.com. Anyone got any ideas? :)

I think I should get my blood pressure checked, I seem to be swooning a lot all of a sudden, don't I?

Don't forget the Tooth Fairy, I hear he hangs out with the Easter Bunny so the Doorector must have met him too...

Well, apparantly I've been deemed too old for Santa to come, so tell your daughter to enjoy it while it lasts! :)

I've been nice too....perhaps there's something aviation-related under my tree :big_grin: I'm loving the '9DP (deer power)" thing, I wonder how many 'deer power' the Jabbaloo is...

They've done a stack of stuff, it's awesome - Santa 09

Airservices Australia apparantly have an awesome sense of humour :big_grin:

Correct you about what Jack? That I'm female or I'm getting my pilots certificate? Both are true :big_grin: Fosie, I think it is absolutely FANTASTIC that you want to fly, there just aren't enough gal pilots out there I reckon! I haven't been flying that long, but in the time I have I haven't heard any negative comments about being female, in fact, people seem to think it's doubly awesome that I'm flying And if your friends are anything like mine, they'll be lining up to go for a fly (all mine seem rather annoyed that I'm not licenced yet!) I recommend that you check out the website for the Australian Womens Pilot Association (AWPA), they offer some scholarships to help people afford to learn to fly and there may well be one that you are eligable for. If you want to talk about anything, feel free to PM me. I'm not planning on being a commercial pilot, so I can't help with that, but I am in the middle of my training now so I might be able to help with something at least! :)

...not to mention assistance with that all important matter of how to write in the third person, something he had some trouble with a fair while back but seemed to get the hang of it, until his recent post where he fell off the wagon and went back to using "I". But perhaps we NESers can attribute that to being trapped in space in a leaky Jabbiroo? DitDot, receiving no reply from NASA on his fancy sootellite phone, and being of a MacGuyver sort, decided that he would have to rely on what he had with him in the Jab to return to Earth. Taking his fancy flippy pitot-tube cover, he....

I think if I'd never flown before and my pilot suddenly started telling me what I could do if he died, I'd be sitting there thinking "It must be a realistic possibility if he's telling me, do I REALLY want to trust my life in his hands if his heart is dodgy?" I can see why you'd want to 'give them the best chance of surival' if something did happen, but I reckon once you start going into that they'd probably be too busy freaking internally about the chances of it happening to listen to what you're saying...

Hi Sue, Just out of curiosity, did he put the cushions under you (1) because you couldn't see out properly (couldn't see the cowling/nose/etc) or (2) simply so you'd be at the same eye level as him? I'm just thinking that if it was simply so you'd be at the same eye level as him, that doesn't really seem the right reason for doing it. I'm not trying to diss your instructor (I know it feels like that sometimes when people give you advice, I feel like that too sometimes) but I'm just thinking that instead of trying to put you at HIS eye level, he should try and have a look at what you'd see and teach you a different way other than "nose on horizon". As I said in an earlier post, my instructor and I are at least a foot different in height so instead of telling me what attitudes he sees in each maneuver, instead he shows me the exercise and asks me what I see and, sometimes, squishes down in his seat while I'm flying to see how things look like from my level. Plus, you said that you don't feel too stable on the cushions, do you feel like you're going to tip off or something? Unless you need them to be able to see the nose/cowling/etc, maybe you should ditch them and try and find a different way of working out what you should be seeing? It can't help you when you're trying to do all the various things you need to do on approach/landing without worrying about falling off your stack of cushions! Also, when I was taught to land, I wasn't taught to look for a particular attitude (like "nose on horizon"), maybe you need to ask your FI if there's some other way of describing what should be happening or what you should be seeing? As I said, I'm not trying to say your instructor is wrong, just trying to suggest a different way of doing things since it sounds like you're not really happy about approach/landing. Hope I might've helped a little :) EDIT: I just re-read your post and it sounds like you might be licenced already which makes my post kind of useless I guess. When I first read it I thought you were still digging away at landings with your FI, but now it sounds like you're already past there. Anyways, maybe I might've helped someone else at least :)

Or will I? :stirring pot:

I'm on the short side too (although not as short as you, I admit, I'm 5'3) and my instructor is pretty tall (over 6ft) so we have the same problem. Luckily for me, instead of telling me what the nose attitude is for each exercise, he demonstrates the exercise and askes me what I see. Also, sometimes when I'm flying, he scrunches down to see what things look like at my level (rather funny to see) Definitely an important point for instructors to remember, I agree :thumb_up:

I fly in the mornings. I agree the recency is really helpful. During the uni semester I could only fly once a week (had to fit studying in there somewhere sigh) and with lessons getting cancelled due to weather, sometimes it'd be a few weeks between lessons which sucked. I can see a noticable difference now I'm flying so often. With the crosswinds, each time it's been 'We'll see how it goes but if it gets too bad we'll knock off' - since we haven't knocked off yet, I must be handling it well :big_grin:. I'm actually liking the whole crosswinds thing. It's actually really helping me to get better at controlling the aircraft on short final...previously I had a tendency to let it go all over the shop and not correct quickly enough but I'm getting better at that. Also I have to think more about the wind direction and how to correct for it during the circuit, which is good experience. Plus it's actually helping my confidence level because I know that I must be improving if I'm trusted to go up in less than perfect weather, so I feel more confidence in my flying abilities. :)

Twice a week (since mid-October, before that the plan was once a week but the weather didn't always co-operate) - Wednesday and Saturday. Is this just idle curiosity or is it leading somewhere?...

We did steep turns about 6 missions ago... but other than that pretty much consecutive. A few of the recent ones have been in a crosswind which has been mixing things up a bit too...

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