Third flight

First of all, I think I will make the posts a little shorter and instead longer when something very new or important has happened.

My third flight was on 31st of July, and we met up before the flight fixing our stuff before going to the hangar. The practice was mostly about trimming the plane at different power settings.

This became my very first own take-off (I did some of the T/O on my second flight also), but after the take-off while climbing out I was getting a little too high and that was followed by a dive. We flew towards the reporting point DEGER and then around in the archipalego between Helsinki and Porvoo practicing trimming at different power settings. I also tried to tune in Porvoo VOR (a navigation aid that we can tune in and fly to) and I saw the station (it's not that close to Porvoo).

Then we flew back to Helsinki Malmi airport, it was sunny and very much traffic. The radio was very busy and we had to circle around the area east of DEGER three times before we got clearence to join the traffic circuit and then land. I flew all of the time (exept when the instructor wanted to show something) but since we were a little low and a little fast he decided to land.

After the landing, back at the office we decided that I was going to land on my next flight, on the 6th of August.

The cockpit before starting up

Stay tuned!

Helge