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Subject: Neat!  Can we do it again?
From: jbolinger@lintek.com (J L Bolinger)
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During my lesson this past Saturday the surface winds where about 15 - 20
knots, wo my CFI would not let me fly by myself.

We did some T&G in the stiff crosswind, and I am starting to get the hang
of it.

What was really neat was that the wind was about 35 knots at 3000 ft MSL.
We practiced some stalls, both departure and approach, straight and turning.

Then we did some slow flight.  He had me fly a heading of 240 degrees with
an airspeed of 35 knots (full flaps).  The Loran unit said our ground speed
was 0 knots!  A look out the side window confirmed this, the whole time the
stall warning was going off and we were not moving at all!!

It reminded me of the little hawks we have in this part of the country, 
called Kestrel's.  They do the same thing when looking for mice.

I also spent some time under the hood, and did a lot better than the last
time.  I lost less than 200 ft in altitude (and most of that was in only
one of the turns) and had no trouble tracking the local VOR.



Jim

