Flight Lessons

This category contains the details of my flight lessons, where I dive into the theory of the exercises for review and the learning processes.

Posts in 2025
  • Flight Lesson 7

    Monday, November 03, 2025 in Flight Lessons

    Lesson 1.7 – Stalls Dates: 03-11-2025 · 30-01-2026 · 27-03-2026 · 03-04-2026 Introduction This page contains all my notes for Lesson 1.7 – Stalls. This was one of the hardest lessons so far, mainly due to the weather conditions in late 2025 and …

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  • Flight Lesson 6

    Monday, October 13, 2025 in Flight Lessons

    Lesson 1.6 – Slow Flight Date: 13-10-2025 & 20-10-2025 Introduction One of the harder lessons so far: slow flight. The purpose of this lesson is to fly as slowly as possible while remaining safely airborne in the Cessna 172. The first time we …

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  • Flight Lesson 5

    Friday, September 26, 2025 in Flight Lessons

    Lesson 1.5 – Airwork 3 Date: 26-09-2025 Introduction In this lesson we performed several airwork exercises, preceded by theory briefings. The focus was on aircraft control, procedures, and situational awareness. Exercises covered: Basic climbing and …

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  • Flight Lesson 4

    Tuesday, September 02, 2025 in Flight Lessons

    Lesson 1.4 – Airwork 2 Date: 02-09-2025 Introduction We started by reviewing previous material and then went deeper into the theory of nose attitude. During the flight we practiced slow flight, throttle effects on nose attitude, gliding, and …

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  • Flight Lesson 3

    Friday, August 22, 2025 in Flight Lessons

    Lesson 1.3 – Airwork 1 Date: 22-08-2025 In this flight, I learned how to perform the preflight inspection myself by doing the walk‑around using a structured checklist. In this first checklist item, we look for reasons not to fly. In IT terms, this …

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  • Flight Lesson 2

    Friday, August 08, 2025 in Flight Lessons

    Lesson 1.2 – Effect of controls Date: 08-08-2025 Introduction In this lesson, we went more into the technical limitations of the Cessna 172 aircraft. Also we did some slow-flight exercises to be somewhat ahead of schedule and we had some spare time. …

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  • Flight Lesson 1

    Friday, July 25, 2025 in Flight Lessons

    Lesson 1.1 - Basics Date: 25-07-2025 Introduction In my first flight lesson for my Private Pilot Lesson, I have been introduced to multiple aspects of flying. In the past, around 3 years before this first PPL lesson, I did a trial lesson where I …

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