Lesson 6 PPL
06 Jul 2004The plan for this lesson was stalling, where you fly so slowly that the wings stop producing lift. To practice this, and how to recover from it safely, the base of the clouds have to be above 4000ft, which meant I had to put this lesson off for two weeks for it to be the right weather conditions.
I took off flew out again to burgh island again, dodging some slightly lower wispy clouds, and then did some stalling exercises how to recover with and without power. Essentially you just have to drop the nose of the aircraft (which it tends to do naturally anyway) to re-establish enough airflow over the wings so that they start to produce lift again.
It sounds much more dramatic than it is, and often you only lose a couple of 100 ft when it occurs.
I flew back to the airport, and then landed on runway 31 for the first time as there was no wind and almost perfect conditions. Runway 31 is the main runway that the bigger planes land on because this runway has the ILS (instrument landing system) which they use to guide them in, in all weather.
The landing was a bit hard and I pulled back too much when flaring causing the plane to go up and to the right slightly I thought I was going off the runway, my instructor helped correct & it was still a good lesson overall 