Flight# 9

Bill suggested I take Dramamine to help get over the motion sickness. I picked up some thing from Walgreens that's equivalent to Dramamine but less drowsy and long lasting. I didn't get to fly again until 5:30 pm as Bill went practicing on a more complex airplane. After reaching the practice area, I got to work on maintaining the same flight attitude irrespective of what Bill did to the control settings. He would change the elevator trim, make turns and asks me to bring the plane to level and direct it in certain heading. I also got to work with the trim so that the plane will fly by itself without any additional control inputs. We then headed back to the airport flying cross wind over Runway 11 and entered downwind instead of the usual teardrop approach to enter the pattern. I got to practice flaring on the runway. We taxied back to Runway 29 again to practice one more take off and landing. I was able to takeoff on my own without any assistance from Bill. I became more familiar with flying the pattern on this run. I also got to practice some more flaring and the landing is not intimidating any more!

For what ever reason, I didn't feel any nausea at all on this flight. Either I'm getting used to flying or the medicine kicked in. That's a good sign and I intend to keep on taking the medicine. Bill already warned me that tomorrow is going to be hectic and I'm going to be tired at the end of the day. I guess he is mentally preparing me.

The Hobbs time of this flight was 0.8 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 6.7 hours.