Whilst I promise not to give a debrief of every one of my lessons, I'm especially chuffed with today. I've now completed my first real world landing.
Today's lesson was all about climbing and descending, which we did between 3,500 and 5,000 ft in the Barton TA. Anyway as the lesson was coming to the end the instructor got me to fly back to CBR. As we entered controlled airspace the instructor left me flying (previous lesson was on straight and level, so I could somewhat hold 4,000).
We then got cleared down to 3,500 and then cleared onto a visual approach for rwy 12. My instructor then provided guidance for me into lining up with the runway and flying the approach, keeping the speed in check and flying the correct descent path. As the ground was getting closer I was half expecting him to take over, but nope he was going to let me have this one. Before I knew it I was flaring the aircraft and a second later feeling the back wheels hit the ground, with the front touching down very soon afterwards.
I have to admit, I don't actually remember how far along the runway I was when I touched down, although I think I was somewhat near where we needed to be. I was just happy the stuff under us was black and not green more than anything else
Personally, I'm calling it a great landing, since we both walked away from it, and they will be able to use the plane again
I'm now a few lessons in, it's been interesting seeing the difference between the flying of the trial flight (let's just go have fun), vs the actual lessons (we will fly
at 4,000ft,
not approximately 4,000ft, and we will do it holding 65 KIAS)
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