# Preflight/Taxi/Checklist Usage - great job # Normal Takeoff - good job - start rotation a little bit earlier (about 45 knots) # Navlog / Pilotage / Dead Reckoning - good job maintaining heading and altitude - good job filling out navlog - if your heading is not consistent with taking you to your checkpoint, make sure to adjust your heading to fly directly to your checkpoint - you do not want to fly over the apopka airport at 1300 feet and then start climbing - utilize the traffic map to your advantage if you have it available to notice nearby traffic - this can come especially handy when you are attempting a diversion and potentially focusing more inside on completing the checklist # Diversion - good job using VOR radials - practice with inputting a radial into foreflight so that you don't have to draw it out - remember that you can confirm your location using landmarks visually without the need to use VORs if you can easily identify your location - maximum deviation - altitude: $-150$ - heading: $10 \degree$ - calling flight service for the diversion - you can't say "x miles northwest of the field" because they will not be familiar with which field you are talking about, need to specify in relation to which airport you are talking about - when reporting your position to KISM tower, tell them that you are west of the field instead of northwest - we were much closer to being west vs northwest of the field # Landings ## Go Around - bring the flaps up in steps to avoid sinking ## Normal Landing - about 400 feet short - remember you can always do a late go around when you know you are going to land short!!! ## Soft Field Landing - good job - soft touchdown - correct attitude - good job holding the nose wheel off after touchdown ## Short Field Takeoff - a little bit aggressive nose up pitch (up to about 17/18 degrees) which lead to an airspeed of around 51 knots during the initial climb out # Instrument Reference Flight - good job about what to do if you fly into IMC - good job using standard rate turns - good job with climbs and descents # Simulated Engine Failure - good job with initial pitch, looking for fields, memory items, verifying checklist - great setup for the field - added flaps at properly - good decision to slip when you noticed you were a little bit high # Ground Reference ## S-Turns - loss of approximately 170 feet - loss of about 15 knots in airspeed throughout the maneuver ![[Pasted image 20241024131140.png]] ## Turns Around a Point - came very close to tower - remember that we were over a populated area (even though it might not be charted on the sectional) ![[Pasted image 20241024131643.png]] # Steep Turns - don't forget about clearing turns!!! - otherwise good job # Slow Flight (Landing Config) - got a little bit slow (about 3/4 knots below 50) during the initial entry but corrected quickly and then maintained airspeed well throughout the rest of the maneuver - lost about 150 feet # Power Off Stall - entry good - initial recovery good - don't prioritize bringing the flaps up over climbing the airplane - when you were bringing the flaps up from 20 to 10 degrees we were slowly descending # Power on Stall (Right Bank) - make sure that you clear the area you are going to turn into - we did a clearing turn to the left before entering - great job with the entry and the recovery # Unusual Attitudes - great job # Emergency Descent - great job