It's All About Landings....Again

We're doing landings again, but not normal ones. Now we're doing slips, short-field, and soft-field landings over and over and over again. The idea is to demonstrate control and stability in performing these different types of landings. My instructor is requiring me to be pretty precise about this stuff, which is good, because when I do the FAA checkride, I'll need to be precise.... also, it's safer to be precise. We've only recently started actually logging my landings so I'm introducing a new statistic to the info I put at the bottom of each post, but just know that I've done many more landings than I've actually logged.

Also, now would be a good time to go over the requirements for a private pilot. These requirements only include the "flight" requirements. There are age, medical and written test requirements as well.

• At least 40 hours of flight time, to include
  • At least 20 hours of flight training from an instructor, including
    • 3 hours of cross-country flight training in a single-engine airplane
    • 3 hours of night flight training in a single-engine airplane, to include
      • 1 cross-country flight of over 100 nautical miles total distance
      • 10 takeoffs and 10 landings to a full stop (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport.
    • 3 hours of flight training in a single-engine airplane on the control and maneuvering of an airplane solely by reference to instruments, including straight and level flight, constant airspeed climbs and descents, turns to a heading, recovery from unusual flight attitudes, radio communications, and the use of navigation systems/facilities and radar services appropriate to instrument flight
    • 3 hours of flight training in preparation for the practical test in a single-engine airplane, which must have been performed within 60 days preceding the date of the test
  • At least 10 hours of solo flight time in a single-engine airplane, to include
    • Three takeoffs and three landings to a full stop (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower.
    • 5 hours of solo cross-country time
    • One solo cross-country flight of at least 150 nautical miles total distance, with full-stop landings at a minimum of three points, and one segment of the flight consisting of a straight-line distance of at least 50 nautical miles between the takeoff and landing locations

Next lesson: Wednesday, February 27.

Landings logged this lesson: 12

Total Landings (since Jan 9, 2008): 38

Time logged this lesson: 1.2 hrs

Total Time: 16.6 hrs