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  1. Astroguy
    My second flight in the circuit as I transition to GA from LSA. I'm flying a 1976 Cessna 172 Skyhawk... and I'm really enjoying the transition from LSA... but it does make you have to start over in some ways. I can get distracted with the new flight characteristics and then forget simple stuff like radio calls and spatial awareness in the circuit. But it's coming along.
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    I'm trying out General Aviation now! Cessna 172 Skyhawk... and my first landings I put about 3 hours in General Aviation about 15 months ago... and I decided to try it out again at the Kingston Flying Club with highly qualified FI, Kais ... Great fun . The 172 Cessna flyings with alot more weight and authority than the Advanced Ultralight. I've landed this Cessna about 5 times today!! I can die happy !!
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    Hey Simon... here is another little video , now that you have a GoPro... I would love to watch your flying skills please. How I mount my GoPro and record cabin audio.... plus yet another run down on circuit technique.
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    Right... I said 'much respect' as to how this man handled the kangaroos! DaveP
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    Thanks.... I can accept the slap in the head! BTW much respect to Australians.... see link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8z3zLHMFc
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    My First aviation incident.. after 75 hours total flight time, I've ended up with a flat tire on landing.... it was a nice landing with no sideloading on the rubber but she immediately felt odd after touchdown and then was pulling hard left on the first taxiway after exiting the runway. I did however notice that hte tire was low two days previously and my walk around was fine. Oh well it all worked out well. This is such a light aircraft that the sidewalls of the tire even with low airpressure hardly shows to the eye.... so my next walk around will include me putting my foot with full weight on the tire top. I can only do this with the wheel pants off however. Oh well chaulk up another lesson for me.
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    My first flight as passenger in a GA low wing airplane. Shawn, a friend from Ground school here in Kingston Ontario, offered me a ride in his - 1966 Piper Cherokee PA28. Nice airplane. It was an interesting comparison between my understanding of low wing and high wing. Much the same of course but much different as well. The strong keel effect of a high wing that I"m used to is definitely different from the diheidral wing in making the airplane positively stable. I was surprised at how different the yaw felt in a low wing. Shawn took me to 3 local landing strips for low and overs. Great fun and yet another flying experience
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    Right sir! The first time I took her up we had a VOX issue and t;he difficulty in comms sort of reduced the fun of first flight! So I didn't take any chances this time!
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    Hi... yet another local flight but I got to take my oldest up for her second flight with me today. It is a different kind of feeling when you have your child on board... I'm so proud that she will climb aboard with me and it's a very interesting and mixed feeling to trust oneselfs newly aquired skills! I'm loving aviation with Ontario Advanced Ultralights here in Kingston Ontario Canada.
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    Anatomy of simple local flight with calls, take off/landings and leaving and entering the zone of Class E airport. CYGK Kingston Ontario Canada
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    Thanks Nev.... At my ripe age of 57 , I simply like to just juice around checking out the world.. I can switch up sides but I rather dislike it. So I thought to myself.... why am I doing this? Well obviously I make $40 per hour to instuct instead of paying $150 per hour to fly for fun. That is a big reason for sure.... but I was sort of surprised at myself when I found that I didn't really like instructing. That really took me by surprise. So I'm back to the more expensive flying for fun... and loving it. Again... if I never fly another minute for the remainder of my life... this accomplishment will rest happily deep in my soul forever! Thanks Nev.
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    This is interesting... just a little nuance like just that can be a part reason for my dislike of changing up the seats. One similar thing to your toe brake oddity is the way I have to reach for the manual flaps lever located on the roof.... I find it crazy difficult to reach up and across with my opposite hand for some reason... I don't now why but it all feels like trying to throw a ball with my wrong hand...... I can do it but it sure doesn't look as pretty! Thanks DaveP
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    Flying left seat with stick (elevator/ailerons/brakes) in right hand and throttle control and flaps with left.... feet on the rudder. The right seat switches the central stick control so the hands become reversed. Plus the site picture on landing is a bit different. Plus most of the steam gauges are way off to the left... the inclinometer is almost useless from the right seat. I can fly right seat but I don't feel as comfortable for sure. Maybe old brain with newbie skills could be the problem. I fly right seat to practice flight instruction but I think I've decided that I don't really like instructing as much as just flying around doing my own will.....so that allows me to jump back in the left seat. I'm sure that with another 20 hours in the right seat I would feel at home but why? I think I"ve just decided to take up passengers but forget the flight instruction. Thanks for the contact. DaveP
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    First flight in over six weeks! Also the first time back in the left seat since end of October! I have been doing the last 7 or 8 flights from the right seat and with a common central stick and different sight picture....I was not enjoying my flying. Believe it or not, I was actually very concerned whether I'd fly again to be perfectly honest! So today was a make or break day..... I jumped into the good old left seat and had a great but cold flight. The weather here has been horrible for the last 6 weeks straight. I'm back baby!! "George Castanza"
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    I take a friend , Dave, up for a flight. Dave is my first passenger with me flying PIC Right seat. I practice a bit of flight instruction but Dave used to be a Glider Flight instructor and is a Flight sim guy who knows quite well how to fly.
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    My first Right Seat Solo flying in the Ikarus C 42 Well.. as part of learning flight instruction I have to switch seats. After being left seat PIC for my entire learning process... I now have to learn to fly Right seat. A real bit if brain flipping is required for a central stick controlled aircraft. My entire flight learning has had me using left hand for throttle and flaps and my right hand for elevator/ailerons/trim. The rudder pedals stay the same. I think part of the difficultly in this contralateral controlling is that one of the main control surfaces still remains the same. Anyhow it felt very daunting during the first few take offs/landings but I have conquered the beast..... suddenly seems easy. Don't get me wrong.... getting your left and right hand controls mirrored and not the rudders gets your control inputs fractions of a second slow which translates to a bit of slop.... but this with tighten out very quickly.... very exciting This has been a bigger jump than my very first solo!!!
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    My first Right Seat Solo flying in the Ikarus C 42 Well.. as part of learning flight instruction I have to switch seats. After being left seat PIC for my entire learning process... I now have to learn to fly Right seat. A real bit if brain flipping is required for a central stick controlled aircraft. My entire flight learning has had me using left hand for throttle and flaps and my right hand for elevator/ailerons/trim. The rudder pedals stay the same. I think part of the difficultly in this contralateral controlling is that one of the main control surfaces still remains the same. Anyhow it felt very daunting during the first few take offs/landings but I have conquered the beast..... suddenly seems easy. Don't get me wrong.... getting your left and right hand controls mirrored and not the rudders gets your control inputs fractions of a second slow which translates to a bit of slop.... but this with tighten out very quickly.... very exciting This has been a bigger jump than my very first solo!!!
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    A fun flight with my CFI Zach.... just a short video of the LSA C42 Ikarus Just taking a break form execises and going for a bit of sight seeing on a cold December afternoon!
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    Nope... the YT video is posted by the passenger.... and he ended up with broken arm with surgical repair and pulled bicep tendons.... I'm sure that you watched the video for this info no doubt..... I doubt that many of us could not have held on that long... man that was Herculean! Especially when the PIC cannot manouver a right hand turn to the first field because of being off balance to the left.... seeing them climb the second ridge with very long decent was unbelievable! Poor form matched with raw power ....nobody dead. Unreal!
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    Took my deskmate from GA ground school last winter up for a flight. He's not getting many hours in GA so I took him up in the Ikarus C 42 LSA..... and I used him as a guinea pig to hone my embryonic Flight Instructor skills on! Sorry it's a long one... mostly for my flight instructor to watch but I thought I'd post... https://youtu.be/8jd-h5mg-p4
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    Nope... that was me in PIC... but this instructor had asked me to do a power on stall and I'd never done one before but I was decent at power off stalls... I knew that they were different... all that torque with no control surface authority at stall but I thought I could pull it off... and bango... my lizard brain jumped in scared as a new born kitten and started slapping the ailerons around instead of holding neutral as my logic brain knows.. I was completely surprised at my complete loss of common air sense but live if you're lucky and learn. It is very hard to watch and then post such poor form but it's part of the gig.... I do appreciate all advice inputs as I'm such a newbie I"m still 200 hours from making it out of the amatuer ranks that I"m in now with my 65 hours! Dave{
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    Okay I've updated my video link with a better description of my power on stall.... but I cannot figure out how to update the link in this forum... so here is the updated link
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    Yes sir... absolutely.... I did have trouble posting this as it makes me squirm in my seat to watch the aileron abuse during the power on stall. I should have stated that it was my first power on stall and yes I instinctively did everything wrong. Aileron inputs increased my AoA on the falling wing... increasing the drop... but this is learning video and I don't mind showing my goofups.... thanks for the feed back.
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    Right you are... that was my first power on stall and I did everything wrong.... yes I was lucky..... I instintively tried to correct with ailerons and thereby increased my AoA on my dropping wing thereby increasing the wing drop.... it is very cringy for me to watch but like I said this is a video of goof ups and all. here is an updated video
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    Video Montage of my Flight journey thus far... 8 minutes of flying thrills! alot of my goof ups and successes in the Comco Ikarus C 42 Rotax 912 at Ontario Advanced Ultralights in Kingston Ontario Canada. https://youtu.be/5m4bflsW4Lw
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