Day 8 VH-YTC

Time is running fast, always! It seems like that I have just blinked my eyes, I have finished the day 8 training in AFTC. Today, I meets a hurdle as it is the second time my instructor told me that I should not make the throttle at below 1,000 RPM  whenever the A/C is stopped (or I should not see the “ALT” light on the Annunciator Panel). Indeed, a good pilot are not going to be told for more than one time. Do you know, after that flight, I am feeling a non-verbal pressure, why I cannot recognize the reading? Anyway, this happened!

Back to today topic – Stall. This lesson is important as well as necessary for every pilot. If you don’t know what is stall, let me try to describe it briefly. For every fix-wing aircraft, from GA to commercial big jet, the wings (aerofoil) generate lift and that force sustain the aircraft on the mid air. When the aircraft fly through the air, the air (relative airflow, RAF) is passing through the wing from the opposite but in parallel direction of flight path (FP). The angle between the RAF and the wing chord line is called the Angle of Attack (AOA). When the AOA meet certain degree to approximately 16 Deg, the airflow on the upper surface will be separated from the wing. This may induce some turbulent and the lift production is significantly decrease. Although the wings is still generating lift, it is not enough to sustain the A/C anymore, therefore, the A/C lose altitude! It may put pilot as well as our passenger into jeopardy. So, we need a lesson special for learning how to recognize as well as do some recovery from the incipient stall or even at full stall situations – Power or Without power;  With flaps and without flaps….

Well, after the air exercise, I have once tested that I have much things to be improved. For example, I should ALWAYS tell myself that when I hear the sound from stall warning device – DO NOT USE ailerons, ONLY apply OPPOSITE rudder. Even it is small input of ailerons – CHANGE IT. Also, I need to – LET IT GO!!!!

It is normal that people may be nervous or even do some actions that is not allowed as a operator point of view. Tomorrow, I am going to have a consolidation test. I am not sure how is my performance, but I am telling myself, try my best. Just remember what I have done wrong – I had made the same mistake for two times, come on.. Be relax but maintain vigilant, do my best, demonstrate what I have learnt to Dean!