Unusual attitude recovery

Today I met Mr. Frasca again. He was much more contained and easygoing this time, it took me just a couple minutes to reset myself and get along with him. Together we did some basic attitude instrument flying, simulated instrument failures, partial panel flying, and lots of unusual attitude recovery on IMC conditions. My instructor tried me on standard ones, once he realized I was managing to get out of them really fast and easy, he made a big effort to "catch me with the pants down": started to put me from one unusual attitude right into another, and failing my instrument one after the other, during the recoveries! It was fun though, I could beat my instructor tentatives to fail me almost all times, and that was a very good sensation... I felt like winning him on that Tennis game on Nintendo Wii! (have you ever played it? I really recommend it if you don't).
It seems that me and Mr. Frasca are going to be good friends now, it seems like finally we understood each other. And I really loved the unusual attitude recoveries, I hope to do some real ones during the next flight on the Skyhawk.


Oh, we also did lots of standard rate turns without using the directional gyro, either using the regular magnetic compass or simply timing the turns with a stopwatch. One 360 degrees turn is done in 2 minutes so I practiced some mental calculations while my instructor asked me to turn to many weird directions using the stopwatch. That was easy compared to the turns using only the magnetic compass; it swings more than a booty shaking dance and has all that errors we should have learned when turning to North or South. By the way, easy way to remember is UNOS >> "undershoot north, overshoot south". It works!

Tomorrow we have stage I exam, ground school. There's still a lot for me to read, so I better get going. Have a good weekend!