Doing the Crab Walk - I mean, Fly

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 — 10:00AM

Flight Lesson #5

Instructor: Tom Kramer

Ground school covered wingtip vortices and jet wash, and the affect they have on other planes.

We're going to head over to the straight part of Route 202 and work on S-turns.

'Seriously, the winds are at 10 knots and we are going to work on s-turns?' I guess there's no better practice. Tom gave me an example then set me up to take over. I felt like I would be banking either too far or not enough. A few times, I rolled out too soon however I did have a few (close to) perfect turns. It wasn't too hard to take the winds into account. The wind gusts on the other hand, they'd throw me right off course. 

Now lets see how you crab.

Once we completed a few sets of S-turns, we made our way back to N40 via crabbing down Route 202. Using cross controls and rudder, I was able to maintain a pretty straight line. The amount of rudder needed made me realize that I need to sit with a pillow behind me to comfortably reach them. Oh the problems of being short!

To the sky...

Sarah