Third and Fourth Flight

Last weeks flights were a bit sloppy, either I was really getting nervous about what maneuvers that I was suppose to do on the day of the actual flight that got me worked up and absent minded.

It was interesting to work on "stall maneuvers", stalling in mid air may sound scary. And why the hell do we do stalls you ask? Good to be prepared for the worse case scenarios. Since the design of the plane is focused on how well the wings could withstand the on coming wind to produce the lift.

However the engineering aspect of the wings may cause stalling. What's really unknown about the wing design (in my case was a first), is that as you increase the angle of attack on the wings, meaning if you pitch the plane too high, increasing the vertical angle, it will most definitely cause the plane to stall. The wings itself are aerodynamically designed for air to flow through smoothly on a normal acute angle. However, once you increase that angle, you will relatively start to break the air flow pattern, causing breakage of the flowing air, causing vortexes around the edges of the wings that disrupt the lift of the plane. This will cause the plane to loose more altitude as well as airspeed and result in a stall.

So there's precaution stages while simulating a stall, you may experience a stall imminent, followed by buffeting/ bit of a rumbling shake within the cockpit. As you recognize these conditions, you recover by pushing your elevator forward to 2 finger pitch attitude and pump up the power to full. This procedure will recover you from a stall.

At first it seemed quite easy on the video instructions, however when the actual thing happened, I pushed the elevator too much that my plane seemed to head for a nose dive, on top of that icing, I added full power, that's just the opposite of  trying to recover the plane from a stall but could have created a secondary stall instead haha~ (yes laughing now, but it could be worse with a combo of a spin and then that's KO for me).

I also had a chance to try out radio calls, really tough at first to even catch what the HELL the radio controllers are talking about, I stumbled on what to say when I was given the opportunity to talk to them. Especially the steps of talking to ground control then switching to tower control, then to departure control. It was a bit all over the place when I began to listen carefully, then after takeoff, there's more traffic to be aware of. And the procedure is reversed for the approach/ Landing. I will have to practice to listen and talk like an controller (robotic, fast pace, mono toned?).