Thursday, February 10, 2005

HB-PPV a Piper Archer II: stalls, spirals, steep turns and landings



I flew today HB-PPV the newer Piper from the Avilu fleet. Our task consisted of flying outbound W, Luino and on to Lago Maggiore as a training ground. There we performed steep turns (45-60 degrees) left and right, making sure we would pull on the elevator as we turned to keep the same height. Our next exercise consisted of spirals: we would power off, and achieve glide speed before gliding down on 45' down. Around 500 feet should be lost per circle. Important again was to keep the speed (70kts) and turn angle by pulling on the yoke's elevator. We then went onto stalls, power off and keeping the same altitude (with and without flaps)... the same was done on turns.

The later class consisted of 6 landings and one go around in order to get a bit used to the Archer II (PA28-180).

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