Soft Field

Well, I finally flew with my instructor again after about 7 months of solo work. The weather was good, and I flew for 0.6hrs in the patterns around I40 before my instructor showed up at the airport. Weather was nice, sunny and clear with some haze below 4000ft. The winds were pretty strong aloft - I had to fly at about a 30 degree angle from my course heading to maintain a rectangular pattern around I40.

When my instructor arrived, we flew up and did some slow flight work, practicing power-on and power-off stalls, holding 60mph airspeed (into the wind, our groundspeed was only about 30mph). He showed me some spin recovery tactics, and then we went back to the field to practice soft field landings and takeoffs. It was fun to do something different in the 172 instead of just traffic patterns and landing practice. I was about going crazy!:)

Hopefully, I can cover some navigational topics soon, and I can get that cross-country endorsement......I'm getting closer! 24.5hrs so far!