Practice Landings Cessna 172 | Private Pilot 

Thank you! It helps when I have easy students! Yeah the first few flights are pretty insane it’s actually amazing they will be off flying on their own in 10-20 hours!

Hes AWESOME. I flew him in to TN from Seattle on 2 occasions to help with my flight instruction.. Amazing guy and awesome to learn with..

You did fine, IMHO.

Lol ... he was only half kidding the first solo is sketchy! It’s amazing how much a new student learns in that first 20 hours! I blame my grey hairs on watching students do their first solo. It might be I’m getting old though.

Thanks! It’s hard to process every thing on the first few flights. I just throw a bunch at the student and see what sticks. He was still flying so even if he wasn’t hearing it all he was doing great. Good luck on your training! Those first few flights will be a blast!

CAP is a great way to start flying ! Have fun !!!

We don’t usually do landing practice on flight two but I let my students fly from day one ... I let the student do everything they can and just help out when it starts to fall apart. Yeah Cessna 172 are awesome! I have seen some crazy hard landings and they just keep on trucking. Our cessna’s have thousands of hours on them with more than their fair share of hard landings. “Any landing you can walk away from right “ lol

No problem! Can’t wait for FSX2020! I still use fsx for flight training and it will give you a head start for sure!

Thanks !!!!

Ha, That would just give students another thing to ignore in addition to the instructors voice saying “right rudder”

Don’t be too embarrassed...I think every student ever has done that at one point or another. I know I did ... more than once .

I would start flying a little as soon as possible and maybe even look for a summer job working at an airport. Washing planes can be pretty lucrative and a lot of work. You might also look into Civil Air Patrol ... they have a cadet program that can be fun with some free flights. The more your around your local airport the more you’ll learn and the more chances you’ll have to fly around. Most pilots are into passing along knowledge to the next generation ( just take a lot of it with a grain of salt ... lots of mediocre pilots out there lol) You can also download the airplane flying handbook from the FAA for free ... it has almost everything you need to know to fly well. Good luck 🍀 !

@@NEROAviation Thanks for the info. Should I volunteer or get a job at my local airport? And should I get a job/volunteer at a flight school? Because I have looked at a flight school that I'm interested in.

Ugh sorry for the late reply I didn’t have reply’s to comments show up! Hopefully you found a way to get around or into flying ! I would go for a flight school but anything around the airport can lead to flight time

Awesome! Your going to love it !

One week to go !

Our school planes only do full stop landings at this airport. I’ll say “full stop” on some of my calls if we have a plane on our six. Generally the other operators in the area will say if they are doing a touch and goes though. Our airport can get crazy so I’m happy if the other aircraft in the area make any call at all lol. I always make sure to call out if I’m doing touch and goes, or anything out of the ordinary. Good comment and we should add “full stop” more often probably.

I use a friction arm ( amazon) with a suction cup mounted to the top of the wind screen. With a go pro 7 inverted. I think there is a link in the description to amazon and all my gear.

It blows my mind how students go from 0 to solo in 20 hrs or less ! It’s a crazy amount of information !

I have been slacking this year ! I have lots of video but editing has been in the back burner.

Not sure, but ailerons are pretty easy for most students to understand and they use them from day one easily . Rudder is a little more subtle and they forget to even use it. “More right rudder” is something most every instructor gets tired of saying...lol. If some one is struggling with rudder I tell them a little cheat “ lead with rudder”. It’s not technically correct but will get them using them together and as they progress they learn to use rudder and aileron correctly. I don’t know if it matters which as long as they learn both in quick succession.

I freaking wish I lived in the Bahamas ! What an awesome place to learn to fly have fun !

Our school does the ground and flight training at the same time...I personally like having ground done or at least mostly done before starting fight training. Most of our students seem to handle it but they have to self study to keep up with the flights.