Well done, John! Remember to feel that plane as if it were an extension of your body. I like your confident and relaxed grip on the yoke! I always wanted to be a pilot, but the nearest I have come to that is flying radio-controlled planes and flying Microsoft FS2020! I am also John, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa, and I am 81 years young!
Thank you for the comment. His first flight was called a discovery flight, an inexpensive introduction, they let him take off and fly the plane. Maybe call your local flight school and ask if they have an option like that.
Good job John. You have the tremendous advantage of getting some principles of flying right before the testing begins. Airmen Certification Standards ignore most of the principles in "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche and are very energy inefficient. They emphasize numbers (inside the cockpit things) for situational awareness but teach contact flying (look outside) poorly. They well prepare pilots for bigger airplanes and instrument flying. At 14, with two years before possible solo, you have some time to learn to fly first and hit the testing later. You have the advantage to get primacy of learning right. Another advantage is that you have no steering wheel muscle memory. Coordination of rudder and aileron will be emphasized, but there are very important places where we wish for no coordination. On short final, we do not want to turn and therefore we do not want aileron to bank with its adverse yaw problems. Use rudder dynamically and proactively, what we old crop dusters call "walk the rudder pedals" to bracket/nail the centerline between your legs. That will automatically keep the wing level or in a stabilized bank angle for drift correction in a side slip crosswind approach. Get pillows to get your head up as high as your instructors. To reach the rudder pedals that will require pillows behind as well. Start with an Oregon Aero full seat cushing if Dad will spring for it. It is important to see the touchdown spot (numbers for us old guys who fly slow enough to arrive there in a three point attitude all slowed up and ready to squat as Wolfgang says. Read Stick and Rudder. You need to see the desired touchdown spot for your apparent rate of closure with it. Sit on the picknic table at the airport and watch airplanes land. Notice how they approach at what appears to be a brisk walk until very short final where they appear to speed up a lot. That is why they have to round out and hold off in that long, long float. That extra airspeed is not necessary and is dangerous. Learn to decelerate coming into ground effect. Vso, which they will teach you about, is an out of ground effect number. We have to be much slower to land in ground effect where the wing is much more efficient. You will be taught to maintain altitude, even in turns. Wolfgang asks what the airplane wants to do. Because of dynamic neutral stability, it wants to lower its nose in turns to maintain trimmed airspeed and not altitude. It does not want to stall and it is even impossible for it to stall itself. A pilot pulling on the yoke to maintain altitude rather than to maintain trimmed airspeed is required. Learn about the law of the roller coaster in Stick and Rudder. This law will keep you alive with or without the engine working properly or when terrain and conditions hamper you. Good luck young man. Keep the sticky side down.
@@paulgood5723 Many -- maybe most -- headsets have a small plug in the earphone that will connect them directly to the input on the camera. They work with a GoPro and are VERY easy to use. You can also connect it to a jack on most intercom sets. That will give you really clear sound. It will also give your young student some recordings he can treasure for the rest of his life. Pat him on the back for me, please. He reminds me of ME when I was just a puppy dreaming of flying some day. And keep making those videos. I have a bunch of videos on a channel called L Dalton PPC
Well done, John! Remember to feel that plane as if it were an extension of your body. I like your confident and relaxed grip on the yoke! I always wanted to be a pilot, but the nearest I have come to that is flying radio-controlled planes and flying Microsoft FS2020! I am also John, in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa, and I am 81 years young!
Thank you for the comment. His first flight was called a discovery flight, an inexpensive introduction, they let him take off and fly the plane. Maybe call your local flight school and ask if they have an option like that.
Good job John. You have the tremendous advantage of getting some principles of flying right before the testing begins. Airmen Certification Standards ignore most of the principles in "Stick and Rudder" by Wolfgang Langewiesche and are very energy inefficient. They emphasize numbers (inside the cockpit things) for situational awareness but teach contact flying (look outside) poorly. They well prepare pilots for bigger airplanes and instrument flying. At 14, with two years before possible solo, you have some time to learn to fly first and hit the testing later. You have the advantage to get primacy of learning right.
Another advantage is that you have no steering wheel muscle memory. Coordination of rudder and aileron will be emphasized, but there are very important places where we wish for no coordination. On short final, we do not want to turn and therefore we do not want aileron to bank with its adverse yaw problems. Use rudder dynamically and proactively, what we old crop dusters call "walk the rudder pedals" to bracket/nail the centerline between your legs. That will automatically keep the wing level or in a stabilized bank angle for drift correction in a side slip crosswind approach. Get pillows to get your head up as high as your instructors. To reach the rudder pedals that will require pillows behind as well. Start with an Oregon Aero full seat cushing if Dad will spring for it. It is important to see the touchdown spot (numbers for us old guys who fly slow enough to arrive there in a three point attitude all slowed up and ready to squat as Wolfgang says. Read Stick and Rudder. You need to see the desired touchdown spot for your apparent rate of closure with it. Sit on the picknic table at the airport and watch airplanes land. Notice how they approach at what appears to be a brisk walk until very short final where they appear to speed up a lot. That is why they have to round out and hold off in that long, long float. That extra airspeed is not necessary and is dangerous. Learn to decelerate coming into ground effect. Vso, which they will teach you about, is an out of ground effect number. We have to be much slower to land in ground effect where the wing is much more efficient.
You will be taught to maintain altitude, even in turns. Wolfgang asks what the airplane wants to do. Because of dynamic neutral stability, it wants to lower its nose in turns to maintain trimmed airspeed and not altitude. It does not want to stall and it is even impossible for it to stall itself. A pilot pulling on the yoke to maintain altitude rather than to maintain trimmed airspeed is required. Learn about the law of the roller coaster in Stick and Rudder. This law will keep you alive with or without the engine working properly or when terrain and conditions hamper you. Good luck young man. Keep the sticky side down.
Great job! Next time come up and work on some crosswind training at KBKL
The pilot/instructor did recommend that for his next flight.
@@paulgood5723 It is a fun and challenging field for sure with the winds off Lake Erie but your skills will improve dramatically from it.
Hello you are welcome
This awesome
Sounds like the stall horn is going off frequently.
TBH, I thought it was old plane, 1976, noises.
@@paulgood5723 possible I suppose.
Would have been a whole lot better to hear what they were saying instead of 17 minutes of engine noise.
Sorry, I dropped the ball. In the future I will put a mic in my headphones and that should quiet the engine noise and capture the voices.
@@paulgood5723 Many -- maybe most -- headsets have a small plug in the earphone that will connect them directly to the input on the camera. They work with a GoPro and are VERY easy to use. You can also connect it to a jack on most intercom sets. That will give you really clear sound. It will also give your young student some recordings he can treasure for the rest of his life. Pat him on the back for me, please. He reminds me of ME when I was just a puppy dreaming of flying some day. And keep making those videos. I have a bunch of videos on a channel called L Dalton PPC