Private Pilot Flight Training and Instruction Flight Training Article Library | Back To 4VFR.COM My First Month As A Student Pilot Week 1 Monday: Rain. Tuesday: Rain. Wednesday: No rain; no visibility either. Thursday: Take instructor to lunch. Discover I don't know enough to take instructor to lunch. Friday: FLY! Do first stall and second stall during same maneuver, cover instructor with lunch. Week 2 Monday: Learned not to scrape frost off plexiglass with ice-scraper. Used big scratches on windshield as marker to set pitch. Tuesday: Instructor wants me to stop calling throttle, "THAT BIG KNOB THING." Also, hates it when I call instruments 'GADGETS'. Wednesday: Radios won't pick up radio stations, so I turn them off. Instructor seems to think I missed something during the introductory flight. Thursday: Learned 10 degree bank is not a steep turn. Did stall again today. Lost 2000 feet. Instructor said that was some kind of record. -My first complement. Friday: Did steep turn. Instructor said I was ready for inverted flight, yet. Week 3 Monday: Instructor called in sick. New instructor told me to stop calling her "BABE" Did steep turns. She said I have to have permission for inverted flight. Tuesday: Instructor back. He told me to stop calling him "BABE", too. He got mad when I pulled power back on takeoff because the engine was too loud. Wednesday: Instructor said after the first 20 hours, most students have established a learning curve. He said it seemed there was only a slight bend in mine. Ah-ha!...progress! Thursday: Did stalls. Clean recovery. Instructor said I did good job. Also did turns around a point. Instructor warned me never to pick ex-fiancee's house as point again. Friday: Did pattern work. Instructor said that if downwind, base, and final formed a triangle, I would be perfect. More praise! Week 4 Monday: First landing at controlled field. Did fine until I told the captain in the 747 ahead of us on taxiway to move his bird. Instructor says we'll have ground school all this week on radio procedures. Tuesday: asked instructor if everyone in his family had turned gray at such an early age. He smiled. We did takeoff stalls. He says I did just fine but to wait until we reach altitude next time. C-150 will be out of shop in three days when the new nose-strut and tire arrive. Instructor says his back bothers him only a little. Wednesday: Flew through clouds. I thought those radio towers were a lot lower. I'm sure my instructor is going gray. Thursday: Left flaps down for entire flight. Instructor asked why. I told him I wanted the extra lift as a safety margin. More ground school. Friday: Asked instructor when I could solo. He laughed till he cried. What was so funny? Written by Unknown Flight Training Article Library | Back To 4VFR.COM