Chapter Twenty-Six: It's Hard to Return Home
readx; The weather is completely back to the hottest time of summer, muggy! Xu Wei was covered in slimy sweat all over his body, and he was very uncomfortable, so he wanted to end his training early and go home to take a good shower. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Today's training is all about reviewing the deep turns and stalls that came before.
The deep turn was not a big problem, he did it once in each direction, and he didn't do repeated exercises, especially when he turned to the right, and the height barely changed, which shocked the instructor and shouted, saying that even he didn't necessarily do better than Xu Wei, and he was close to perfect.
At this time, the instructor's mood suddenly improved a lot, and Xu Wei's previous neglect of remark was also relieved.
As for the stall, the instructor let Xu Wei operate alone, but he kept reminding him of the deviation next to him. For example, airspeed, course deviation, timing of pulling and pressing the nose, changes in engine output, etc. Basically, the instructor was saying, and Xu Wei followed his words. There was no way, Xu Wei's stall the first few times was so bad that the instructor didn't worry about letting him do the stall completely alone.
I don't know what's wrong, today Xu Wei stalled like a divine help, and his sense of fear was a little lighter, maybe because of the idea of rushing home.
Without the fear that made him constrained, and with the guidance of the instructor, it was naturally handy, except that he was not decisive enough to press the head, there were basically no other major problems.
It is planned that at the end of this training there will be an introductory training session for slow flight. However, on the way, the ATC informed the instructor that within an hour it would change to meter conditions, and even thunderstorms could occur.
The instructor weighed it and decided to give up the idea of continuing training for the time being, and go back to the base first, saving himself from being able to drop when he got it.
Xu Wei and the others flew not far from Athens, and it would only take ten minutes to fly in a straight line. In order to get back to base as quickly as possible, the instructor chose the shortest straight flight, and on the way back, he kept asking Athens about the real-time weather conditions.
Unfortunately, meteorological conditions in Athens deteriorated extremely quickly, and strong convection caused thunderclouds to develop rapidly. Xu Wei could see from a distance that there were thunderclouds that were already like a hill with extremely high vertical development above Athens, and the thunderclouds were black, as if they were about to swallow Athens.
Xu Wei's heart crossed countless grass and mud horses, it was obviously autumn but it was like summer, and the thunderclouds came without warning.
The instructor's face became more and more ugly, and in just a few minutes, the cumulus clouds over Athens covered the entire airport. The meteorological conditions did not allow for a visual landing, only an instrument approach could be carried out, however, the instructor did not develop an instrument flight plan before the flight.
According to the TAF newspaper, the thunderstorm will not occur until after five o'clock, so the instructor is not prepared, who knows that it will come so suddenly and menacingly.
The instructor had to contact the Athens tower and request real-time weather intelligence from the tower to decide whether to land through the clouds.
The opinion of the tower is that thunderclouds are developing very fast, but there are no thunderstorms yet, and it is feasible to choose instrument approaches, and if after a while, thunderstorms enter the mature stage, at which time even meter approaches are prohibited, and this thunderstorm will not dissipate quickly.
The instructor weighed it and decided to conduct an instrument approach. Instrument approach requires ATC clearance, not just a casual start. When performing instrument approach, the altitude, heading, and speed all need to follow the ATC command, otherwise there is a risk of collision or touchdown.
After waiting for a while, the instructor received VOR non-precision approach clearance from runway 27 at Athens Airport. The instructor begins to change course and turn to the heading assigned by the ATC while repeating the approach instructions, including cloud base height limits, visibility restrictions, heading course directions, minimum descent altitude, and more.
The Cessna 150 does not have the ability to de-ice, so try not to stay in the cloud for too long, once the ice occurs, Xu Wei and the others will fall into an extremely dangerous situation.
The instructor set up the vor, and at this time, in front of the plane, an electric snake cut through the sky, and the instructor directly stopped the work in his hand, and said helplessly: "OK, wearehomelessnow."