Sllllllloooooowwwww flight.

[Nark]

Went out to practice landings for an upcoming spot landing competition.

I usually approach around 50 ias. I was thinking, hey I can get a lot slower. Perhaps testing it out below 500’ on final isn’t the best place to do that.

So with the GoPro’s recording I went to the practice area and started experimenting.

I captured my slow flight:

[Colonel]

Nice. I keep telling the low-time kids that they need to spend time doing that - high alpha, controlling yaw - but I fear that their instructors can't teach what they don't know.

I had a guy come to me, ask me to show him the FAA PTS commercial flight maneuvers in his Maule, because he couldn't find a CFI who would. Really?! A 60 degree banked wingover is not rocket science in any certified light single that I've ever flown.

And I was told recently that a T-6 was a fire-breathing dragon, that only hero pilots could master. Made me sad, because it's a trainer. My father and everyone else in his class went solo on them (Harvard) in 10 hours. Mind you, this was in 1951 so their instructors had a clue.

I see so much garbage about flight training on the internet. They tell you all sorts of things that aren't important.

What's important in flight training is (in this order)
1) your instructor
2) WHERE you flight train. Good wx all the time? Not too busy?
3) how often you fly

Pretty well everything else is in the noise. New/old airplane, no matter. High wing / low wing who cares.