Overall Judson did quite well, from what I can tell he should be on track to be ready for the phase 5 progress check within a few lessons to improve his landings and approaches. # Notes / Recommendations - Practice with ATC Communications: - use an app like LiveATC and pick and airplane to follow in the pattern and practice responding as if you were them - this is a skill that requires dedicated practice to develop and it is much more cost effective to practice it on the ground compared to in the airplane - make sure that practice always doing flows whenever you make a configuration change to the airplane, you missed some things such as not bringing mixture to rich when initiating a climb - good job with trimming out the airplane - make sure to do all turns in instrument conditions at a standard rate (you can use approx. 15 degrees of bank during turns) - make sure that you always read out loud checklist items that you are doing # General Notes - good job with passenger / PIC briefing and checklist usage before takeoff - make sure that you disengage starter immediately when the engine starts turning on its own - even if this causes a false start, it is better to do that then continue with the starter engaged - good job briefing taxi instructions - good job being cautions of runway intersections and actually taking a second to check each direction before crossing ## Steep Turns - remember that you can do these starting in any direction, you don't have to turn into the wind - a little bit too much rudder in the direction of the turn (skidding) during left turn and not quite enough rudder during right turn - airspeed and headings good ## Slow Flight (Landing Configuration) - always bug your entry heading for quick reference - got slightly slow (-2/-3 knots) - otherwise good job - remember that if it is required there is nothing wrong with going to full power for a climb (especially when it is hot outside and performance is degraded) ## Power On Stall - make sure to bug entry heading - descended during entry into maneuver (remember to slowly increase pitch to aid in slowing down without reducing altitude) - high pitch attitude after adding power (remember that we can only intentionally go to 30 degrees nose up pitch) - bring the pitch up a little bit lower and continue to slowly pull back on the elevator (you will require a greater deflection on the controls as airspeed decreases because less airflow over controls means they will be less effective) ## Power Off Stall - good job ## BAI - remember that all turns while using the foggles should be done at 15 degrees - remember to always highlight declaring an emergency - otherwise good job ## Engine Failure - a little bit high on airspeed - stated could make it to X04 - 3,000 ft and airport 5.7 miles away - realized would not make it (good thinking) -> changed to orlando north which was within gliding distance ## Landing - overall good job - make sure that you don't start descending before deciding to initiate the approach on a straight in - make sure that you roundout at the appropriate altitude (continue to bring the airplane down until you are at a roundout altitude, don't slowly bring it up)