After years of wishing, whining, complaining and dreaming, my wonderful wife finally agreed to let me take flying lessons. I logged my first dual instruction flight this morning. Yeehaa!
It is an absolutely clear beautiful morning here in STL; perfect for a flight. After reviewing the weather and TFRs (the flight restrictions Pat talks about) we went out and did our pre-flight inspection of the plane. No parts were hanging off and the gas was free of debris so we hopped in and took off. Of course the instructor was in control up to this point. Once we hit 2500 ft the instructor turned the controls over to me. Not surprisingly my attention was focused on the instruments and keeping an eye on my position relative to the horizon. It was more work than fun but I expect that will change over time. The instructor took over for the landing. We hit some turbulence and managed to miss a couple large buzzards on the final approach but we landed with the shiny side up.
The hardest thing to get used to was steering with my feet while taxiing. I can see it now, getting ready to take turn 1 at Putnam and letting go of the wheel and pressing the gas pedal.
Now I’ll spend a few hours on line with the next session of ground school and schedule another flight in the next few days. Hopefully I haven’t bored you to death, but this is one more thing off my bucket list.
Steve
It is an absolutely clear beautiful morning here in STL; perfect for a flight. After reviewing the weather and TFRs (the flight restrictions Pat talks about) we went out and did our pre-flight inspection of the plane. No parts were hanging off and the gas was free of debris so we hopped in and took off. Of course the instructor was in control up to this point. Once we hit 2500 ft the instructor turned the controls over to me. Not surprisingly my attention was focused on the instruments and keeping an eye on my position relative to the horizon. It was more work than fun but I expect that will change over time. The instructor took over for the landing. We hit some turbulence and managed to miss a couple large buzzards on the final approach but we landed with the shiny side up.
The hardest thing to get used to was steering with my feet while taxiing. I can see it now, getting ready to take turn 1 at Putnam and letting go of the wheel and pressing the gas pedal.
Now I’ll spend a few hours on line with the next session of ground school and schedule another flight in the next few days. Hopefully I haven’t bored you to death, but this is one more thing off my bucket list.
Steve
I havent flown in years 
