Oct 30th 2007 Second Day…
Today I picked up another marine, and flew again with my student from yesterday. The new student was at the same level as my student was yesterday, so I had to go over power on stalls, power off stalls, slow flight, and engine failure procedures. The one thing that I have to remember as a new instructor is the way I felt when I first did these maneuvers. At first it feels unnatural for an airplane to be doing this kind of stuff, and as a brand new pilot, they are not prepared for it. So I have to make sure I tell them what we are going to do, and also let them now that its going to be a strange feeling. But remind them that we are completely safe, and we do these maneuvers for safety reasons.
Not much else to report on, I let my student from yesterday, pretty much land the plane today. I helped in the flare, but he managed to come in at the right airspeed, and stayed pretty much on correct glide slope. It was awesome, because he couldnt really believe what he had just done. He didnt believe me that all I did was help on the flare, and seeing someone get that first feeling of real accomplishment flying was pretty damn amazing.
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