We took off from runway 91, direction South. We climbed to 2000ft where we turned right direction waypoint W, at W we cleared air control with the tower and followed on towards Luino and Lago Maggiore. This would be our training space for the next 45 minutes. Exercises consisted of getting used to flaps flying at the same level (Flaps1, Flaps2, Flaps1) and seeing how the plane wanted to lift, how the speed would decrease (because of bigger drag). Corrections were made to cancel this lift by pointing the nose downward.
90 degree turns followed, using the compass and a reference point right in front of the turning side wing. A bank is given to 20 degrees, and fixed, around 7 degrees before we correct to the desired reference (90 degrees, left or right). The same was done on descent and ascent.
Next exercise was using the flaps to keep the same speed while descending. We started at 4000ft, then, by keeping a reference point (say a palce where an emergency landing could be) , we took of all power (least throttle) and started our decent keeping 70 mph. The flaps were then lowered (1, 2, 3) and we adjusted with the nose to keep same speed 70mph, but lower angle. We levelled off at 2500ft with full throttle, and after some time, started our climbing and lowering the flaps. This might have been something the Piper should have performed instead of really trying to make the runway...
We headed back to LSZA but had to orbit 2x at 2600ft over the runway as a plane was performing GA and touch and go exercises. Orbiting seems to be a common thing at Lugano.
Takeoff LSZA UTC=1308
Landing LSZA UTC=1415
Total flight time=1:07
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