My new Student Jay

[ATIS]

I picked up another student today. Jay had some 3 channel flying experience but it has been a few years since he flew. He arrived today with a new PZ T-28 (white and red version) and 2 lipos. We got him set up on the buddy box and off we went. He did great on his 3 flights and I never had to save the plane. He did some rolls and on the 3rd flight he even did the take off. Landings will be next weekend if weather permits.

At the pace he is learning I figure he will solo next weekend if we can get 4 flights in and then we can work on turning the T-28 loose and let him learn to fly her like a warbird! Thats the enjoyable part of teaching!

[liquid1]

Nice he sounds like a fast learner..The T28 is an awesome warbird with spunk..I like my T28D more with every flight.

[rcdude07]

[ATIS]

yep, the T-28 is a great flyer and if you have a short grassed field or a paved runway she is awesome for touch and goes, not to mention she flyes great inverted!

[phantomphan]

Cool. Another addict.

[ATIS]

Checksix (jay) got 3 more flight in today in 10-15mph winds with the T-28. He did great and I never took over. Take offs and landing went fine, Split S, rolls, loops all looked good. Next week 1 lat buddy box flight and then he will be on his own with his new PZ P-51.

[WJCJR1]

AWESOME! Congrats CHECKSIX!

Wayne

[checksix]

well first flight on the cord i took over at altitude as the PZ T-28 went by from left to right , She's a beauty ! Hands and knuckles were shaking the whole time ! lol . . . ATIS kept his cool and talked me around the patterns. I flew her around just getting my thumbs and orientation to become one. I let ATIS know when i noticed the rpm response getting sluggish, he said lipo was getting low and he would bring her in. I believe i started breathing again at that point ! ATIS talked to me about what he was doing the whole time while he brought her in for the landing. Next two flights went about the same , played with the high rates on the third flight and had a little fun with some basic rolls ! Think the hands finally stopped shaking on that third time up.

[checksix]

3 more flights in today , was a little nervous with the wind 10-15 i believe. Was enough that she shook her tail a bit into the wind , no bad up and down sheer so it was managable even for the newbie lol . . wind did make rolls and loops quite fun though , she was very responsive even without the high rates ! ATIS again was very patient and talked me through everything , landing into the wind was a bit nerveracking , super sensitive and slow ground speed made knuckles shake again. Got her down ok , just not as pretty as i would have liked - cant wait for next session !

[ATIS]

Next session the buddy cord will be there simply as a safety, its all you from roll out to taxi into the pits! (unless you manage to find a time to get out their on your own with the winds calm then go for it like we talked about and you will be fine). After that its all you and maybe the P-51.