Pilot's logbook

7/6 C-150 N16084 EKX EKX TO - Adverse yaw demo, positive dynamic stability, APEH?/ORD Stable MOA, rudder turns, emergency engine out, RTNS & LNDGs landings: 9 2.4 EJ

Q&A. Forces of flight. Weight of the air, its effects on things. Dihedral & overbanking. torque "108 cars."

Preflight: Gasket on gas tank. Kiss the stall slot.

Controls always to wind--taxi, landing.
"Guard" not only throttle, but carb heat and mixture until 500 feet.

Rudder--lead turns with rudder. Experience turning hands-off.
"Parking the plane" set a 5?º turn, trim, fly hands-free to have time to do things, figure stuff out, not get any more lost.

MCA. Minimum Controllable Airspeed. Not looking around enough.

Scanning during slow flight turns:
*ONE Scan outside to left.
*TWO Check angle of bank (15º on dashboard); airspeed (low); turn coordinator (bank); altitude indicator
*THREE Scan outside right

Scanning during Steep Turns:
*ONE Scan outside to left.
*TWO Check airspeed (100 kt.);ball of turn coordinator; bank indicator; VSI; altitude.
*THREE Scan outside right.
NOTE: airspeed will tell you what to do. If climbing, you need to increase the weight of the plane--go into a steeper bank.


Ground Reference:
Keep airspeed trimmed @ 100 kt. You can tell altitude by the airspeed.
*ONE Scan outside to left.
*TWO Check airspeed (100 kt.);ball of turn coordinator; heading indicator [if wind direction # is in the top half, do a shallow turn, if wind direction is in the bottom half, do a steep one.].
*THREE Scan outside right.

Emergency:
On takeoff, always expect an engine failure. Have a plan for where (on the runway) you will abort takeoff

Emergency engine out
Airspeed: Climb to best glide, trim. Hands OFF! Apprehension causes things to happen to the controls. The plane will fly better without you. (you have 4 seconds to do this).
Best place to Land (pasture is best, stay away from corn and soybeans. "Look for the coffee."
If you have the altitude,>1,000 ft, go thru the routine for restarting the engine. Touch everything in practice.
* primer in and locked.
* check magnetos. If the noise quits at one setting, leave it off.
* carb heat on, check tach. IF RPM drop, choke and sputter lessen or quit, then lean the mixture.
* throttle
* mixture
* fuel: swap gas tanks OR tip the nose up to run residual gas to the engine.
* radio stack: frequency. Set transponder to standby, set to 7700, set back to 1200/ altitude.

Landing:
Downwind: set speed at 100 kt.
Midfield <--> numbers: carb heat on, power to 1700, three rolls of nose-up trim,"white arc," flaps, pitch for 70 kt. (This made the whole sequence feel more controlled, more calm. Have to remember to clean it up before takeoff.)

Who's gonna kill you? Where's the guy coming from? In the pattern, before turning downwind, it's the person arriving straight-in from your right. Turning final, again, it's someone coming straight-in from your right.

Magneto check before idle cutoff. If there's a wire that jiggles loose and makes contact, the propeller will start when you check it for preflight. The only way to make sure is to turn the mags off and make sure they go off.

He emphasized LOTS of hands-off flying for me.