Thanks bartman!
Well, was in the 172 yesterday for the 1st time back up at the controls in 10 years...
It wasa blast! Its amazing how much I remembered about actually flying the plane, while I've forgotten a lot of the technical aspects. Flying th plane is actually easy...
We spent an hour doing slow turns, descneding and climbing turns, and holding a point. It was natural, and after 10 minutes it was like riding a bike, power, attitude, trim, or attitiude, power, trim for descending and climbing and maintaing altitude and or speed... it was great! The instructor even commented that I was right on the ball with my coordinated turns
To be truthful, I was exceedingly happy just to be able to hold a desired altitude, as I figured i'd be chasing it and oscillating up and down... taxiing for take-off was the hardest part as I'd forgotten how much movement of the rudder was needed to stay on the centre line.. you'd have thought I was trying to stay in "my lane" on the right side of a road! lol
Anyways, got the next 4 classes booked out with the instructor, so should atart picking it back up again soon... only thing that bugs me is the landing fee of $40 each time, as its an International Airport... Calgary (YYC). But, I'll chalk it up to the cost of education in a busy internatioanl airport to learn the radio work and traffic routing norms of operating in that kind of airspace, then I won;t be scared to do it myself when I'me certified...
Anyways, thats all for now. Cheers.