On Saturday the 11th of August, I wen't to Malmi the entire day to have a groundschool and tests about Navigation, Flight Performance and Planning and Basic Instrument Theory. The day wen't through pretty fast, but I failed the tests (passgrade is 85%). I then travelled back the next day and made them! That feels great. Now I have around 50% theory done from the school, but after that I still have the tests from the authority.
Stay tuned, tomorrow is my next flight! Helge
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Just less than a week since my last flight, I'm was flying again! This time the weather looked a little worse compared to my last flight, but it was still acceptable. We started up the plane and I was taxiing it (as usual now) to runway 18. I did my 2nd fully own take-off, and it went fine. In the air I was very focused NOT getting too high this time. We did the after take-off checks and flew towards DEGER. Outside DEGER we kept between 1000-1200 feet of altitude and tried some situations of changing the throttle when the airplane is trimmed to a specific speed and attitude. If I put the throttle all the way to idle when I have trimmed the plane it will start decending trying to recapture that speed (going a little faster than it was and also turning a little) if I don't touch the stick and rudder. And vice-versa when giving full throttle. In the archipalego I also practiced on the approach, we pretended an island was the runway and I flew towards it executing the landing checks, flying slow and adding flaps. Then we simulated a go-around, giving full throttle and fly up, then putting the flaps to take-off position. We then turned towards NOKKA and we practiced slow-flying close to Vuosaari. When flying slow without flaps, the horizon over the panel won't be visible, but it will become more and more visible the more flaps we add. That way we can have a more steep angle in the decend as well. Flying with full flaps generates a lot of drag and we have to fly slower than usual, so we were holding 50 knots with full flaps and the stall warning shouting for some seconds, then giving more throttle and taking the flaps up, first to take-off position and then fully up. Reaching NOKKA we turned back to the airport and joined the circuit for runway 18. We were then number three on approach. I did everything, first slowing down and doing the approach checks and setting the flaps to take-off position. As we reached the beginning base leg of the circuit, the instructor wanted me to find a point about 90 degrees from our plane to the left. Closing the runway and onto the final leg we slowed further down to 70 knots setting flaps for landing and then 60 knots as the final approach speed. I was flying all the time and I had a good contact with the PAPI lights, showing mostly two white and two red, like it's supposed to. Just before touching down, on the flare, the instructor helped a little pitching the plane. But it was still my first landing! We then parked the plane outside the terminal because my instructor was soon going to fly with another student. Me in front of the plane after my first landing 
Stay tuned!
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