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November 3, 2000 Today we again worked on vertical S's, continuing on from lesson 5. I got an even better understanding of power, pitch, airspeed interactions than I did last time. I think I was having entirely too good a time with this as Andres soon wanted me to show me something new. I'm kidding. I know I have to move along and learn new things. Besides, Andres' lesson format is to have me practice what was new from the previous lesson and then introduce something else. I had done a few 30 degree turns during a previous lesson, but now he wanted to introduce 45 degree turns. A 45 degree turn sounded fairly radical to me. As he was explaining the details about the aerodynamics as well as what I needed to do, I was a bit worried about how my body would handle it. Since have so little flying experience of any kind, I have no idea how I'll react physically to these new sensations. So far, I haven't had any problems at all and I certainly am grateful for that. Andres does have a student who gets sick to his stomach every time he goes up. The poor guy wants to learn to fly so badly, but his stomach doesn't want him to, evidently. Anyway, Andres said that he would demontrate a turn to the right and then to the left, passing through 360 degrees so that the starting and ending headings were the same. He always makes things look so easy and I suppose these turns are easy when you've done them thousands of times. As he started the demonstration, I felt a bit odd. I got slightly dizzy and let's just say that I was aware of gravity pulling on my internal organs. That was for his first turn. The second one wasn't as uncomfortable. Andres often gently teases me about my muscle tension. I don't realize I'm so tightened up until he calls my attention to it. I guess I was sitting stiffly during the turns because he said, "You're not going to fall out, you know. And I'm not rolling over on you. It's OK. Relax." "Oh, yeah. Right. Thanks, Andres." I told him about my mild physical symptoms. He promised me, "You'll feel better when you're flying." He was correct. However, I wasn't quite up to the 45 degree turns immediately so I asked him if I could do some 30 degree turns first to warm up. "Sure." I did a few of those and they weren't bad at all. Now for the 45s. Andres was so right as he always is. I didn't have any physical problems at all but I certainly was busy trying to do the turns correctly. I lost altitude in spite of my efforts not to do so. I definitely need to practice. The good thing is that I ended up liking to do steep turns and my body adapted to the sensations very quickly. As usual, my lesson time was drawing to a close sooner than I would like. We would have stayed up longer but we started late, mostly attributable to my unintentional pre-flight pokiness. Also, there was another student waiting for Andres at Murray. I do not yet know how much of the landing I'm doing, but it does seem like he has me do more things each time. Later, friends... __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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