OK....so my first two flights today were canceled because the airport was closed because of snow we got last night. No money for me...
It warmed up quite a bit though and by the afternoon I was able to go fly with a student only now the winds were gusting to 27 knots. So much fun in a 152!!! Then you throw in a little wind shear at 400 feet which shook the heck out of us and caused us to lose about 100-150 feet on climbout despite mantaining Vy the whole time. Fun when the climb rate in the 152 is already anemic.
Later on in the flight were are doing power-on stalls and despite briefing on the ground, a reminder in the airplane, and a demonstration with the student following on the controls, you can guess what happens. The left wing drops and she adds full right aileron without lowering the nose which immediately sends us over into a spin. Oh did I mention the throttle was still wide open? She then panicks and develops a death grip on all the controls as I am trying to call "my controls". I have to remove her hand from the throttle, reduce power, and put in full rudder...which she is now using to brace herself against so it took considerable effort to get it in there. I didn't mind the spin so much, we recovered in less than a turn but having to overpower the student adds a new wrinkle to it!!! I guess I earned my money on this one
Don't you all want to be instructors??? Tomorrow should be better though, despite the bad day it really is a blast!
It warmed up quite a bit though and by the afternoon I was able to go fly with a student only now the winds were gusting to 27 knots. So much fun in a 152!!! Then you throw in a little wind shear at 400 feet which shook the heck out of us and caused us to lose about 100-150 feet on climbout despite mantaining Vy the whole time. Fun when the climb rate in the 152 is already anemic.
Later on in the flight were are doing power-on stalls and despite briefing on the ground, a reminder in the airplane, and a demonstration with the student following on the controls, you can guess what happens. The left wing drops and she adds full right aileron without lowering the nose which immediately sends us over into a spin. Oh did I mention the throttle was still wide open? She then panicks and develops a death grip on all the controls as I am trying to call "my controls". I have to remove her hand from the throttle, reduce power, and put in full rudder...which she is now using to brace herself against so it took considerable effort to get it in there. I didn't mind the spin so much, we recovered in less than a turn but having to overpower the student adds a new wrinkle to it!!! I guess I earned my money on this one
Don't you all want to be instructors??? Tomorrow should be better though, despite the bad day it really is a blast!