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Old 07-12-2002 | 05:34 AM
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Default What I had to do...

Takeoff
Ascending turns (right and left. Judged on takeoffs)
Descending turns (right and left. Judged on landings)
Left pattern to a touch & go
Right pattern to a touch and go
Power off stall/recovery
Power on stall/recovery
"Unusual attitude" recovery. (you hold radio, instructor grabs your sticks and screws
up the plane... snap/spin/inverted whatever. You recover)
Regular "full stop" landing
Dead stick landing (must not break anything, must be "On field")


The dead stick part may or may not be a good idea.
Could really upset someone if they lost their plane that way,
and it's a strong possibility for someone who's already nervous
and under a lot of perceived pressure.

At the field where I fly now, misjudgement wouldn't be pretty.
(On a hilltop... and one side has a STEEP dropoff.)
It wasn't much better where I learned, though... there's a barbed
wire fence surrounding the runway there, since it's on the outer
edge of a cow pasture.)