====== Tommy Thomasson Private Lesson 1 ======

  * [[https://youtu.be/Bst5bFSqXkA]]

Base airport:  KDKX

Instructor is John Burt, Naval Aviator:  7 Years, Airline Pilot:  12 Years, CFI:  36 Years, Flight Experience: 20,000+ hours

  * Obtain the weather, copy it down on paper / notes / knee board.
  * Set your radio with weather on one flip/flop and comms on the other.
  * Set the altimeter to field altitude, and check the pressure reading matches the weather you just copied down.
  * Put the check list away when you taxi, don't look at the list while driving around.
  * Check your brakes, and the parking break.
  * Right has the right of way.
  * Nose wheel right on the yellow line all the time.
  * Hand on the throttle and controls all the time while taxiing.
  * Instructors will let big things slide if you do the little things right.
  * Take your time with the mag checks, do not accidentally turn the engine to OFF. (can do bad things)
  * Flight controls three cycles to be sure free and correct.
  * Artificial horizon piper right on the horizon.
  * Set your navigation radio to put in the VOR frequency, center it with a TO indication.
  * Directional to magnetic compass.
  * Birds will avoid landing lights
  * Use every inch of the runway, right to the edge, you never know when you're going to need it all.
  * One hand on the yoke, one on the throttle.
  * Left leg, put it down on the floor during climb, you only need right rudder and that will emphasize it.
  * Trimming the airplane is everything
  * Trim is a poor mans autopilot.  You work a whole lot less if you trim properly
  * Adverse yaw, so rudder the direction you want to turn.  Once established, rudder out.  Don't be bashful with the rudder.
  * Always work the trim.  There should be no pressure on the stick.
  * 500 feet per minute descent.  Be at pattern altitude when you enter it.
  * Do the simulator every day.  CFI has things for the student to do.
  * Read the section on adverse yaw.  Understand adverse yaw from day one to be a better pilot
  * For landing:  Push, Pull, Turn, Trim
  * Straight in approaches are BAD, have had two mid air collisions right at the intersection of base / straight in.
  * After touchdown, hold the yoke all the way back and tap the breaks.  Keep the elevator pulled back to add drag and help slow the plane down aerodynamically.
  * Never read a checklist while taxiing.
  * Flow pattern to clean up:  flaps up, back to taxi, lean mixture one inch, carb heat in, landing lights off, reset trim.  1,2,3,4,5:  1) flaps up 2) mixture lean 1 inch 3) carb heat off 4) landing lights off 5) reset trim