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lesson 10: September 9
My log book says that we did slips in lessons 5 and 6, and we did. I had the basic idea, which is that you cross-control the airplane to increase its drag and make it descend faster.
However, in lesson 8, we did slips to a landings. I discovered that I really didn't understand slips; I didn't realize how much the airplane was going sideways. I think the reason for that is that we practiced it over a lake, so I didn't have a clear target so that I could understand where I was going. So in lesson 10, I asked if we could do som ore slip practice, this time with a target on the ground. We did that, using an island on the lake as the target to point to. That worked well, and after this lesson, had a much better feel for slips.
The rest of the lessons was touch and goes. In one pattern, we made a 360 on downwind to make landing space for three Stearmans. That was fun.