The Doctor's Lair

October the 6th. Today was an extremely good learning day. I schedule the flight at 8 in the morning and things went quite well. A little fog, but it had cleared enough so as to go out and practice. Most of the practice was done in the westerly headings. Easterly the sun and the remaining fog made the visibility very poor. No foul ups on the radio frequency this time(I did last time) or anything and the takeoff was good. Offcourse, when you are learning there have to be a few hiccups. While practicing slow flight, I stalled; so learned the hard way that I need to keep an eye on the airspeed especially in the slow flight maneuver. Then we turned into the wind and with us going at around 35 KIAS and the wind at 3000' being at 30 kts, we were nearly hovering in the air. Its a weird feeling, looking down and not seeing the ground move backwards. Next came power off stalls and power on stalls: nearly put on of them into a spin again, but apart from that they went quite nicely. We flew back to the airport and proceeded to do some comings back to the earth, or landings as they are known. Did five of them, improving a little each time but still a long way to go. "Landing is about balancing the pitch and the power," was what I got to heard more than a couple of times.

Coming to the topic of the post, taxing past the hold short line to the active runway, we passed a very small bird sitting calmly on one of the taxiway lights. Our wing nearly passed on top of the bird and the bird did not flutter at all. I guess he things he is the king of the airport