Update On My Progress to Solo-My First Few Lessons

Hello!

Since my last post, I have had a few more lessons and gained about four or so more hours of flight time in the Bristell NG5. I am learning a lot and making very good progress. I’ve found that Sporty’s Ground School and Gleim’s test prep has helped a lot in quickening my progress through instruction, as I already know, or at least have heard of, 75% of the things I am being taught, which minimizes my time on the ground and maximizes my time in the air, overall maximizing my progress to solo. One thing I’d recommend to anyone aspiring to fly: Hit the books! Study a lot before you ever start! It’ll make your flight training much more enjoyable and economical for you if you do.

I’ve been doing lots of takeoffs, landings, stalls, and turns. On my last lesson, there were scattered clouds, but my instructor told me that he was comfortable with us going up. That has probably been my favorite lesson so far, as it was so so cool trying to figure out a path up through the clouds to get on top of them. I loved it! The Bristell handles absolutely wonderfully. It’s extremely agile and powerful. You have to back the power off quite a lot to do a power on stall, because if you don’t, it’ll just keep on climbing, even at extreme attitudes! During a simulated engine failure, I was able to glide the plane over five miles (starting at 4000′) all the way back to the runway and land.

Here’s a video of one of my first landings!

(I apologize for the rather poor video quality. I’m not sure what caused it.)