camera – they will add to the tension
and get up everyone’s noses.
Ideally, when you are ready for
solo, you will be at the stage where
you feel you are not quite ready,
you would like perhaps one or two
more sessions. There is only a very
small window when you should go
solo. If the instructor is too cautious
and keeps you flying dual past this
critical window your confidence, and
your performance, will both drop
dramatically and it may take another
five hours to get you there again.
And if you are only getting it right
after the best part of an hour – then
she will not send you solo because
your concentration curve is on a
steady downslope by then.
She is not looking for all good
landings, she is looking for three
safe landings in a row and one go-
around that you initiate yourself,
without being told.
It is also important that your
circuits are consistently fairly
accurate. If you can’t fly a reasonable
circuit, you certainly can’t be trusted
to do safe landings.
The go-around is probably the
most important consideration for a
first solo. I wouldn’t send someone
solo unless I had seen them make anearly decision to do a go-around, and
then execute it properly.Showing you
can do it
For a successful go-around three
things have to be right – apart from
an early decision.1
You must smoothly take
full power.2
You must hold the nose level,
regardless of how hard it tries to
rise. If it does rise when you are near
the ground with full flaps, you are in
serious danger of losing the little bit
of airspeed you have and stalling.3
You must not touch the flaps
until everything is under control
and the airspeed is increasing. Then
you gently milk the flaps up to the
normal takeoff position.
Instructors have to be wide awake
during the first few go-arounds. The
common faults are life threatening.
You are nearing the top of a
particularly spectacular balloon,
and the airspeed is decreasing
rapidly. You say to the student,
“Okay, let’s do a go-around ”. Unless
you have briefed them recently
they will do absolutely nothing, or
at best they will say, “Do what?”.TOP: When the instructor leaves you on your own, the aircraft
will climb at an amazing rate – be ready for it.
ABOVE: When your instructor abandons you she will make sure
that her seat belts are tied up out of the way of the controls.(^60) Master class
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