Slyfox1
New Member
I'm a student pilot with about 15 hours TT. Today I had a flying lesson and two very unusual things happened. We departed our airport to go practice takeoffs and landings at a nearby controlled airport. About halfway there at 1200 feet my door just flew open! Its an old Cessna 152, and I have no idea why the door opened. All I could say was "####! ####! ####!" my instructor calmly told me to keep flying the plane, then reached over me, and after a few tries got it to close.
OK great so now i have a story to tell my family and friends when I get back on the ground. but it wasn't over yet.
We got to the controlled airport and did two take offs and two landings. After the second take off the airplane was at 900 feet and I was beginning to turn on to the crosswind leg, when the engine began to violently vibrate. My instructor said "Do you feel that vibration?" and all I could think was "of course!!! why are you even asking?!" Two minuets later we got safely on the ground, but it was the longest two minuets later we got safely on the ground, but it felt like two hours
When we got on the ground we saw the engine was leaking a lot of oil and we took another airplane back to our airport. SOOO. How often does this stuff happen? Not often i hope....
OK great so now i have a story to tell my family and friends when I get back on the ground. but it wasn't over yet.
We got to the controlled airport and did two take offs and two landings. After the second take off the airplane was at 900 feet and I was beginning to turn on to the crosswind leg, when the engine began to violently vibrate. My instructor said "Do you feel that vibration?" and all I could think was "of course!!! why are you even asking?!" Two minuets later we got safely on the ground, but it was the longest two minuets later we got safely on the ground, but it felt like two hours
When we got on the ground we saw the engine was leaking a lot of oil and we took another airplane back to our airport. SOOO. How often does this stuff happen? Not often i hope....