Hi everyone,
I've been lurking for the past few months and thought now would be a good time to introduce myself. My name is Jeyan and I am a graduate student currently living in Chicago. I've recently taken my first official lesson with Skill out of KUGN after years of wanting to do it. I'm not exactly sure yet how I plan to pay for it
but this is the point in my career where I would have the most time to undertake flying. Anyway back to my lesson, I flew an evektor sportstar last friday for about an hour but the conditions were not ideal. It was really windy and turbulent so it was hard for me to really focus on learning. I got a chance to talk to the tower and learned extensively about preflighting and using checklists. The takeoff took me by surprise since everything happend so fast that I quickly got behind the airplane. Once at cruise I found it hard to keep a steady altitude with the amount of turbulence, but I got a feel for the controls and how little pressure you need compared to microsoft flight simulator lol. The landing was handled by my CFI due to the strong winds.
One of the biggest questions I had for you guys was how do you position your feet on the rudder pedals? The sportstar has the nose wheel connected to the rudder pedals and I wasn't sure if I should control the rudder with my heel and the brakes with my toes, or operate them separately. I think by having my feet positioned like the former would lead me to ride the brakes inadvertently, but operating them separately feels awkward as well. During our taxi I was approaching the hold short line and the taxiway curved into it. I found it very awkward at that point trying to work the rudder pedal to maintain the curve and then to operate the brakes to slow down. I thought I could pull the power to idle to slow down, but we were taxiing under idle power. I know this is probably second nature to many of you and it probably sounds like a dumb question, but I want to make sure I learn all of these small things the right way so I don't pick up any bad habits. I'm sure i'll have a bunch more questions as I continue training, and I know i'll learn more from all of you as I have the past few months. Thanks in advance for your help.
Jeyan
I've been lurking for the past few months and thought now would be a good time to introduce myself. My name is Jeyan and I am a graduate student currently living in Chicago. I've recently taken my first official lesson with Skill out of KUGN after years of wanting to do it. I'm not exactly sure yet how I plan to pay for it
but this is the point in my career where I would have the most time to undertake flying. Anyway back to my lesson, I flew an evektor sportstar last friday for about an hour but the conditions were not ideal. It was really windy and turbulent so it was hard for me to really focus on learning. I got a chance to talk to the tower and learned extensively about preflighting and using checklists. The takeoff took me by surprise since everything happend so fast that I quickly got behind the airplane. Once at cruise I found it hard to keep a steady altitude with the amount of turbulence, but I got a feel for the controls and how little pressure you need compared to microsoft flight simulator lol. The landing was handled by my CFI due to the strong winds.One of the biggest questions I had for you guys was how do you position your feet on the rudder pedals? The sportstar has the nose wheel connected to the rudder pedals and I wasn't sure if I should control the rudder with my heel and the brakes with my toes, or operate them separately. I think by having my feet positioned like the former would lead me to ride the brakes inadvertently, but operating them separately feels awkward as well. During our taxi I was approaching the hold short line and the taxiway curved into it. I found it very awkward at that point trying to work the rudder pedal to maintain the curve and then to operate the brakes to slow down. I thought I could pull the power to idle to slow down, but we were taxiing under idle power. I know this is probably second nature to many of you and it probably sounds like a dumb question, but I want to make sure I learn all of these small things the right way so I don't pick up any bad habits. I'm sure i'll have a bunch more questions as I continue training, and I know i'll learn more from all of you as I have the past few months. Thanks in advance for your help.
Jeyan
