I went up with my instructor, Richard Taylor, on Memorial Day and again on Thursday.  I logged 1.9 hours of flight time.  Since I trained for 38 hours in 2007, we reviewed what I learned back then and worked on some new stuff.  Richard says that I am not that rusty for laying off 6 years.  We worked on coordinated turns, steep turns, stalls, and landings.  Cessna 152’s seem to drop faster in a stall than the Diamond DA-20 I trained in back in Little Rock.  Maybe I just forgot what it feels like.  Makes for quite the roller coaster the first time!

Here is a picture of my hot rod.

Richard has been flying for more than 50 years and has flown everything from crop dusters to corporate jets.  He was also an instructor in the Navy.  He said that I would learn to land again on a nice BIG 6,000 ft. runway but that the airport was shutting down the runway to repave the runway and I would takeoff and land on the taxiway.  That will really teach me to land, he said.  We are also going to go to a 2,500 ft. grass strip surrounded by trees later on to, as he says, make flying fun!  I think I’m going to enjoy training with Richard.