Lesson 2

Got to Bapsfontein at 5:00 AM this morning 3 hours earlier than lesson one and it made a big difference!! Lesson one was very bumpy, i couldn't get a feel for the plane and i had difficulty steering but today it was smooth as silk!. Larry and i did the pre-flight checks, making sure all the clips and caps where on and than every thing was as it should be. i taxied down to the other end the run way, tured around and got ready for take off. i got to sort of do the take off, Larry had his hands on the bars behing me and guided me in the right direction. The view from up there was awsome,the sun was low in the sky and gaps of light where shining through the clouds.

We headed out to the flying area and started following a straight line(again a road), this was nice and easy because it was so smooth up there, shortly after that Larry gave me a demonstration of a medium banked turn, i tried and it went well, you use the point where the wires from the weight shifter attach to the wing and line that up with the horizon which i think is an angle of about 30 degrees.

After a few of those we did some accending medium turns and later some decending medium turns. Towards the end of the flight we did some curcits of the air field and i got to do a low pass over it, a few curcits later and we landed.

I now have 2.5 hours logged and have completed lessons 1-8, booked for every day next week nice and early in the morning i should get alot done, will report back soon...