Astroguy

My second flight in the circuit as I transition to GA from LSA.

I'm flying a 1976 Cessna 172 Skyhawk... and I'm really enjoying the transition from LSA... but it does make you have to start over in some ways. I can get distracted with the new flight characteristics and then forget simple stuff like radio calls and spatial awareness in the circuit. But it's coming along.

I'm trying out General Aviation now! Cessna 172 Skyhawk... and my first landings

I put about 3 hours in General Aviation about 15 months ago... and I decided to try it out again at the Kingston Flying Club with highly qualified FI, Kais ... Great fun . The 172 Cessna flyings with alot more weight and authority than the Advanced Ultralight.

I've landed this Cessna about 5 times today!! I can die happy !!

Hey Simon... here is another little video , now that you have a GoPro... I would love to watch your flying skills please.

How I mount my GoPro and record cabin audio.... plus yet another run down on circuit technique.

Oh! A kangaroo! So cute.

https://news.sky.com/story/three-injured-after-kangaroo-attacks-family-11525879

DaveP

These prevent over-soft tyres

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BTW much respect to Australians.... see link   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8z3zLHMFc

My First aviation incident.. after 75 hours total flight time,  I've ended up with a flat tire on landing.... it was a nice landing with no sideloading on the rubber but she immediately felt odd after touchdown and then was pulling hard left on the first taxiway after exiting the runway.

I did however notice that hte tire was low two days previously and my walk around was fine.  Oh well it all worked out well. This is such a light aircraft that the sidewalls of the tire even with low airpressure hardly shows to the eye.... so my next walk around will include me putting my foot with full weight on the tire top.  I can only do this with the wheel pants off however.

Oh well chaulk up another lesson for me.

My first flight as passenger in a GA low wing airplane.

Shawn, a friend from Ground school here in Kingston Ontario,  offered me a ride in his   - 1966 Piper Cherokee  PA28.  Nice airplane.

It was an interesting comparison between my understanding of low wing and high wing. Much the same  of course but much different as well.  The strong keel effect of a high wing that I"m used to is definitely different from the diheidral wing in making the airplane positively stable.

I was surprised at how different the yaw felt in a low wing.

Shawn took me to 3 local landing strips for low and overs.

Great fun and yet another flying experience

And you let her use the good headsets.  ?

Hi... yet another local flight but I got to take my oldest up for her second flight with me today. 

It is a different kind of feeling when you have your child on board... I'm so proud that she will climb aboard with me and it's a very interesting and mixed feeling to trust oneselfs newly aquired skills!

I'm loving aviation with Ontario Advanced Ultralights here in Kingston Ontario Canada.

Anatomy of simple local flight with calls, take off/landings and leaving and entering the zone of Class E airport. CYGK Kingston Ontario Canada

The "standard" is Command in the LHS ( except some heli's). and instruction situations.  Left Hand circuits are the very much encouraged, NORMAL  that LHS seating suits. CASA will not approve RH circuits being designated " somewhere" unless there's a very compelling reason. Sometimes there's no brakes or steering (By tiller or wheel) available in the RHS position and certainly the instruments are by far more suited to the LHS sitting position. IF you fly from the RHS YOU must ensure that you can reach all controls and operate them without getting out of the seat. Your POH will have something to say about which seat is used for the PIC. In some tandem seats it's also a Cof G (balance ) issue. ALL Piper Cubs except the Super is flown solo from the rear seat.. That's a balance thing primarily..

  I have flown from the RHS solo but I would advise against it in a sense as there may be some issue that causes an incident where the seat used had some effect that may be said to have contributed to the outcome. Visibility in the circuit etc. Instructors are in and out of different planes and types and  LH and RH seats all the time. You can (and must) if you fly Airlines or charter etc in anything sophisticated or multicrew. There's no exceptions based on Left or right handedness..  Nev

Again... if I never fly another minute for the remainder of my life... this accomplishment will rest happily deep in my soul forever!

Thanks Nev.

Last Saturday I chose to fly from the Right. My friend was going to fly my plane for a while and he is only comfortable on the left. I have often flown from the right without a problem, but...

After landing I had no left toe brake. Fortunately plenty of runway to sort out the problem. On the left, there is a bar that comes down between the pedals. So you put your left foot a bit to the left. On the right, the bar comes down on the left of the pedals. So I was pushing on the bar, not on the toe brake. I don’t why it happened then and never before. Could have been awkward on a short or narrow runway as I was meandering about for a while.

Thanks

DaveP

I sit in the seat that allows me to have flight control in my left had, did a flight review in a Jabiru once and told the instructor that I would fly from the right seat. I don't understand why you would fly from a side you are not comfortable with.

 I can fly right seat but I don't feel as comfortable for sure. Maybe old brain with newbie skills could be the problem.

I fly right seat to practice flight instruction but I think I've decided that I don't really like instructing as much as just flying around doing my own will.....so that allows me to jump back in the left seat.  

I'm sure that with another 20 hours in the right seat I would feel at home but why?  I think I"ve just decided to take up passengers but forget the flight instruction. 

Thanks for the contact.

DaveP

First flight in over six weeks!

Also the first time back in the left seat since end of October!

I have been doing the last 7 or 8 flights from the right seat and with a common central stick and different sight picture....I was not enjoying my flying. 

Believe it or not, I was actually very concerned whether I'd fly again to be perfectly honest!

So today was a make or break day..... I jumped into the good old left seat and had a great but cold flight. The weather here has been horrible for the last 6 weeks straight.

I'm back baby!!   "George Castanza"

I take a friend , Dave, up for a flight. Dave is my first passenger with me flying PIC Right seat.

I practice a bit of flight instruction but Dave used to be a Glider Flight instructor and is a Flight sim guy who knows quite well how to fly.

My first Right Seat Solo flying in the Ikarus C 42

Well.. as part of learning flight instruction I have to switch seats. After being left seat PIC for my entire learning process... I now have to learn to fly Right seat. 

A real bit if brain flipping is required for a central stick controlled aircraft.

My entire flight learning has had me using left hand for throttle and  

flaps and my right hand for elevator/ailerons/trim.

The rudder pedals stay the same.  I think part of the difficultly in this contralateral controlling is that one of the main control surfaces still remains the same.

Anyhow it felt very daunting during the first few take offs/landings

but I have conquered the beast..... suddenly seems easy.

Don't get me wrong.... getting your left and right hand controls mirrored and not the rudders gets your control inputs fractions of a second slow which translates to a bit of slop.... but this with tighten out very quickly.... very exciting

This has been a bigger jump than my very first solo!!!

My first Right Seat Solo flying in the Ikarus C 42

Well.. as part of learning flight instruction I have to switch seats. After being left seat PIC for my entire learning process... I now have to learn to fly Right seat. 

A real bit if brain flipping is required for a central stick controlled aircraft.

My entire flight learning has had me using left hand for throttle and  

flaps and my right hand for elevator/ailerons/trim.

The rudder pedals stay the same.  I think part of the difficultly in this contralateral controlling is that one of the main control surfaces still remains the same.

Anyhow it felt very daunting during the first few take offs/landings

but I have conquered the beast..... suddenly seems easy.

Don't get me wrong.... getting your left and right hand controls mirrored and not the rudders gets your control inputs fractions of a second slow which translates to a bit of slop.... but this with tighten out very quickly.... very exciting

This has been a bigger jump than my very first solo!!!

A fun flight with my CFI Zach.... just a short video of the LSA  C42 Ikarus

Just taking a break form execises and going for a bit of sight seeing on a cold December afternoon!

All over the TV they refered to the dangling bloke as the studeht who the instructor didn't hook on. I got the impression the instructor may have hung around too long while setting the student off solo, and ended up hanging on for dear life when the ground ran out.

Especially when the PIC cannot manouver a right hand turn to the first field because of being off balance to the left.... seeing them climb the second ridge with very long decent was unbelievable!  Poor form matched with raw power ....nobody dead. Unreal!

Took my deskmate from GA ground school last winter up for a flight.

He's not getting many hours in GA so I took him up in the Ikarus C 42 LSA..... and I used him as a guinea pig to hone my embryonic Flight Instructor skills on!

Sorry it's a long one... mostly for my flight instructor to watch but I thought I'd post...

https://youtu.be/8jd-h5mg-p4

Ah, I see, I thought an instructor was demonstrating a power on stall to you. My concern was that the instructor seemed to be doing/teaching the wrong thing ...

I do appreciate all advice inputs as I'm such a newbie I"m still 200 hours from making it out of the amatuer ranks that I"m in now with my 65 hours!

Dave{

Video Montage of my Flight journey thus far...8 minutes of flying thrills!

 

alot of my goof ups and successes in the Comco Ikarus C 42 Rotax 912 at Ontario Advanced Ultralights in Kingston Ontario Canada.

 

https://youtu.be/5m4bflsW4Lw

Yes sir... absolutely.... I did have trouble posting this as it makes me squirm in my seat to watch the aileron abuse during the power on  stall. I should have stated that it was my first power on stall and yes I instinctively did everything wrong.  Aileron inputs increased my AoA on the falling wing... increasing the drop... but this is learning video and I don't mind showing my goofups.... thanks for the feed back.

Yes, that didn't look at all good to me either, a recipe for instant spin entry in many aircraft. Also - watch his feet during the aileron input, the first correction with left aileron is accompanied by right rudder - you can see his left knee bend to accommodate the left pedal moving back. 

here is an updated video 

Video Montage of my Flight journey thus far...

8 minutes of flying thrills!

alot of my goof ups and successes in the Comco Ikarus C 42 Rotax 912 at Ontario Advanced Ultralights in Kingston Ontario Canada.

https://youtu.be/5m4bflsW4Lw