First Flight with minor control on a Tomahawk!

Might as well make good use of this blog :P

Had an awesome experience of flying a plane today. Started off with experiencing the idea of taxing a plane around the runway.

Instructor handed me the control, at first the taxing maneuver was a bit tough to control since you need to balance the L and R rudder to a point you straightening your plane that follows the yellow marked path on the runway.

Instructor took over for take off, a bunch of checks needs to be done before take off, and radio comm with the tower ( it was a bit info overload, where I was a bit unsure what info was given).
Reached the air, I was given control to fly straight ahead towards a landmark lake. Again the controls for the ailerons was tougher than what I had expected, shifting the yoke L or R slightly actually creates a tremendous bank or rather because I was so tense and rigid the banking turns felt very unstable and forgetting to keep at reference point level, the plane kept dipping or rather pitching down or up suddenly.

Was given instructed ways of doing coordinated turns of (90, 180 and 360 degree) it was quite a nerve wrecking start, but soon I got the hang of keeping the plane a bit smooth while banking on the turns. However I constantly tried to keep my attention on the reference points I somehow neglected my hand and foot coordination. Especially banking with the simultaneous use of the yoke and rudder paddles.

The Pitch, power, and trim procedure was a bit difficult to follow, as I was tensed up to wanting to make sure all steps were followed right. I will pitch but unaware that I reach two finger's above ref. horizon to stabilize the plane again and increase throttle power then check whether Trimming was necessary before reducing throttle.

Fun stuff: experienced (0) G while instructor pitched up and went for a sudden drop to produce the slight seconds of 0 G effects. It was quite cool.
Then the experience of stalling, where the angle of attack (critical angle of attack) on the wings have reached it's max causing a disruption of airflow from upper surface of the wings. So yea that was not a fun thing to do, but thank gawd there's a recovering procedure.

Landing felt like a tough procedure when the instructor did it. Overall it was quite an kick ass experience!!