This has been kind of a crazy week at the Vande Voort house, but we were still able to squeeze in a little time for a lesson. I keep pinching myself and wondering how much longer this ideal teaching situation will last. Shane and I have now completed eight lessons, and it's worked wonderfully. I knew it would work on many levels after all there is no one in the world that knows me better than Shane. On the other hand I do worry about stressing our relationship or hurting each other's feelings during a high stress moment. I guess I'll just cross my fingers and hope it continues to go well!
Wed. was forecasted to be rainy but the rain held off until evening. It wasn't a perfect day, but it wasn't bad either. Since the weather wasn't perfect we weren't able to do ground reference maneuvers and stalls, but we were able to practice take off and landings. The first landing was less than ideal and it freaked me out a bit. We ballooned and kind of bounced back off the runway. Shane added a little power and was able to get us back on the ground. He explained that this happens when you have too much speed upon landing. I thought we had reduced the power by enough, but apparently we still had enough umph for ballooning. Ok, this doesn't quite make sense to fix too much speed with adding speed, but I'll look into it.
After I calmed down a bit we turned around, took off, and entered the pattern together. This was quite busy, and I felt like I was multi-tasking in overdrive. By the end of the lesson I had worked up quite a sweat, and it made me appreciate what Shane does even more. We did two more uneventful landings before calling it a night. The Private Pilot Maneuvers book is calling my name so maybe I'll blog on what I've learned in a couple days.
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