After the Memorial Day holiday, my primary CFI Nick took a week-long family vacation this week, so I asked Nick to recommend a CFI while he was away for vacation, and he recommended flight instructor Zack to work with me this week.
This past week the weather was pretty good; we were able to schedule 3 flights in close proximity and I got to try out the Cessna 172 R and S:
Tuesday, May 27th, even with some drizzling rain in the morning after my pre-flight safety check, we decided to take off. Despite the rain, the visibility was pretty decent and I was able to practice slow flight, power on and off stalls, taxiing, descending and taking off.
Thursday, May 29th, there seemed to be scattered cloud coverage ~2500AGL, but we quickly made it above to reinforce the same skills I learned the previous day.
Friday, May 30th, I practiced the same skills as the previous two days, but also began steep turns and ground reference maneuvers. Straight and level flight has become much easier at this point, and it has become more natural for me to look outside the plane to hold the attitude rather than staring at the Primary Flight Display and other instruments in the cockpit.
This is my first time working with CFI Zack and we had some great flights!
