Lesson 3 - Flying straight and level

Tim had turned 30 in the week, and had been celebrating his birthday the previously evening, so was feeling a bit tender. Had i not been advised to read up on it first, I may have thought this was the primary reason for us doing "straight and level" flight today... :-)

We flew south today to fly over Sheerness, which made a nice change. It was a nice sunny day and there were a few thermals coming up from the buildings and concrete areas below - which were not welcomed by Tim!

I'm finding these lessons quite straightforward, but am learning much more about the aircraft, and the layout of the instruments etc and am thoroughly enjoying myself!

Tim started me on using the radio this week. This is probably the scariest thing I have done to date - broadcasting on the ether; knowing that everyone is listening to you. We were in G-BOLW (which is said as GOLF-BRAVO-OSCAR-LIMA-WHISKEY. I seemed to be stuck in some strange Bruce Forsythe impression of BRWRWRWAVO-OSCWRWRARWRW. Tim did also comment that my WHISKEY had occasionaly been WISPY. Which my two daughters found hugely amusing and had to tell everyone about!

The tip is to write it all down on the knee pad and read it back.

Stats at end of lesson
Description	Hours as PUT	Hours as P1	Take Offs	Landings
Lesson	0:50	0:00	0	0
Total	2:45	0:00	0	0