Spin Training

This past Wednesday I had the privilege of going out in a Cessna 152 and doing about eight spins in it. For those who do not know what a spin is I will tell you. When you are flying in an airplane the wings are creating lift, if you slow down enough the wings stall (increase your angle of attack) and do not produce enough lift (flow over the top of the wing is dissrupted). But for a spin you stall the wings and then kick the rudder to make the aircraft uncoordinated, then one wing drops and the aircraft begins to roll over. During this roll over you may be temperarialy inverted. Then the nose of the airplane is pitched down at about 85 degrees, while rotating around the center of gravity (CG). The reason you rotate is due to the out side wing producing a small about of lift. Then to get out of this manuveur you bring the throttle back, ailerons neutrel, opposite rudder, after rotation stops give a slight pitch down to regain control over the airplane, then return to normal flight. During this time you loose about 1,000 ft. of altitude in about 5 seconds or so. So make sure you have at least 4,000 ft. of altitude to play with. After all of this we flew back to the airport where I did a nice cross wind landing and then went inside the FBO and received my spin endorsement. If you wish to see what a spin actually looks like I would suggest going to youtube and searching spin training.

CFI Written practice

Today I was supposed to take my CFI written but due to time restraints I was unable to do so. I was able to practice my worse subject for the written though...weather. I did all 144 questions and was able to receive a 92% on that subject so I think if thats my worst subject I should be able to pass the actual written without a problem. I am going back on Friday morning to take the test. I am going to try and get at least a 90% on the written which from talking to other CFIs doesn't seem like that bad of a score.

I had also taken a practice test for the weight and balance section last week which I was able to pull off a 100% which was nice. I had a few problems with the weight shift problems but they were worked out fairly quickly. Wish me luck because Friday is my D day.