My First Lesson!!!

I had my first lesson on the 13^th of May after about 3 cancellations. I am learning on the Aero AT-3 aircraft built in Poland. If you follow that link you can see the actual aircraft I am flying – the movie on the website was taken at Sywell so you can see the airfield as well but you will have to excuse the advertising blurb.

We went through the walk around of the aircraft and check-lists and stuff which was good as a refresher because there were so many things that I’d forgotten about since my last lesson in 06. I did not get to fly that day as the wind was way too strong. My first flight lesson was on the 17^th May when the weather was a bit poor to be honest; it was really murky with not much of a horizon, but aside from that the lesson went really well! We did effects of controls including trimming then observed the slip stream effect with changing speed which was pretty cool. Richard my instructor – oh I should have said that Richard Wallace, the CFI at Brooklands, is my instructor – this is what he looks like:

Anyway, he told me that we would have been able to achieve much more had the weather been better. He did nag me for looking out at the sights instead of concentrating on the horizon but I was trying to get to know the local scenery because I had no idea where we were! I have another lesson booked for this Sunday 7 June which I'm really looking forward to, and I'm hoping the weather is like the start of this week – Clear Blue Skies!!!

Thanks for reading and I hope you continue to check out how my flying is going!

All the best and see you soon