Cessna Time Again

I had another lesson today with Christian, its revision time on the run up to my PPL skills test so today we went through some forced landings. A forced landingis where you recover the plan and land it after you have suffered an engine failure.

Its actually a lot easier than it sounds, I remember the first couple of times I practised it, it was a nightmare, you have your instructor telling you we're gonna die if you don't fly the plane so you panic.

If you are embarking on your flying and haven't gone the far with your instructor then don't worry, relax. The trick is to fly the aircraft, basically trim for 65-70 knots, whatever is the safe slow speed of your plane is. Once you have the plane flying level, pick a suitable landing spot, into wind. Don't panic and don't fly too far away from your intended landing spot.

As daft as it sounds, but its amazing how many people forget that you can loose height, but can't gain it. Take your time, pick you landing spot and go for it, if you are too high then drop some flap to reduce the height, again don't panic.

I've a couple of more lessons booked and I still have two exams to take before my skills test, but I'm on target for taking that before the end of the month.