The second lesson is off for today and has been reschedualed for tommorow. It was funny because the weather was looking in my favor all day and then a gusting wind of 25 kts came out of no where, but that is the weather one finds on the harsh Alberta prairies. Of course an hour later the winds had calmed down.
Oh well... gas is only 104.8 per liter right now.
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Ah, sorry about that second lesson. Here, it use to be haze in the summer and low clouds in the winter that would get me cancelled.
Your description of the pre-flight really brought back some memories!Nothing like being out on a ramp waiting for your Instructor and wondering what kind of curve ball he/she plans to throw at you!
I eagerly await your next entry! Your realling making me want to get in the air again!
(As for DD - he was my first Instructor. The DD stands for Devil Dog. (I will blog about him soon! :-O ))
Throw the curve balls right back.
When you find a defect and point it out to your instructor, and your instructor says, "oh that's okay" or "that's been there for a long time," ask your instructor "how can I tell?"
Where is it documented that that has been there for a long time? What is the largest such a dent can be? What is the tolerance for slopiness in flap play? Your instructor will likely bullshit you, because s/he doesn't know either, but these are important questions. One dent is perfectly acceptable and another the same size or smaller is not. Why? Because the smaller one might be defined a knife-edge crease. Any chance you get to ask maintenance personnel about tolerances and defects, take it. I flew a plane once that had had an illegal elevator patch in place for the last fifteen years. An astute AME noticed its size and position and went and looked it up.
Also keep finding out what the bits are. What they are called, why they are there, what could go wrong with them.
Ask a question after every walkaround, and when the answer isn't complete and confident, ask "where can I go to learn more about this?" Don't tell your instructor, but even if you learn everything your instructor knows, you still don't know much!
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