Effects of Controls 2 (30 Dec 2005)

First of all we summed up what I learnt in the previous lesson, and checked if I had any questions, which I didn't. Following the conclusion of that, we went through the effects of power changes, e.g. with reduced power the nose yaws to the right and the plane pitches down, while with increased power the plane yaws to the left and the nose pitches up. As the prop is only rotating in one direction, it causes yaw to one side - simple enough!

Following that part we moved onto the anicillary controls, which happens to be the flaps and trim, which were simple to understand as well. Which brings me to the best part of a lesson, the flying itself. I had a fiddle round with the throttle to notice how the plane reacts to power changes, which was quite a bit more than I thought it would be. Next part of the lesson was the flaps, in which I had to slow the plane down into the white flap area part of the speed indicator, so the flaps could be deployed. Lowering flap raises the nose of the aircraft, while retracting does the opposite and lowers the nose. Once that was over with the instructor taught me how to trim the aircraft, it's a great feeling when both you and the instructor can take your hands off the controls and the plane virtually flies itself, much easier then holding the yoke back or forward all the time!

Well that sums up yet another flying lesson.