Flight# 32 - Pre Solo Stage Check

Even though I went with John yesterday for presolo stage check, Bill wanted Fred, the chief flight instructor, to do the stage check. By this time, N4655X came back on line.

So, I went ahead and did the preflight inspection and Fred joined me shortly there after. He asked me to depart the runway to the north. After reaching 2000 ft, he had asked me to get into slow flight configuration, perform turns, stall while turning and perform power on stall, stall recovery and 360 degree turns. We then headed back to the airport to do some take offs and landings. I greased a few landings. He was impressed but, I wasn't consistent all the time. He showed me how to control the flare while touching down. I even managed a smooth landing in cross wind! He signed off my logbook with satisfactory presolo stage check.

The Hobbs time of this flight was 1.0 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 34.7 hours.