I did my private pilot training at an airport in Kennesaw, GA (KRYY) and I just landed a couple of times at PDK, I got intimidated by this airport.
At 11:00 am I went to the school and my instructor was there, he told me that his previous student cancelled on him so we were able to start a little earlier. He had me jump into the FTD (simulator) just to get a little familiar with the checklists, flows and maneuvers. After that he asked me If I thought I could do the preflight by myself and I agreed; after all, I had a checklist and I've watched the seminole preflight video around 5 times, so I went outside to the airplane and started going through the checklist and trying to find each of the items listed. The instructor came out and I noticed it needed some oil, so we did put some on, refueled the tanks and we were ready to go!
After 115 hours of flying in a 172, this really felt funny. The airplane is about the same size but with the twin engines I felt like an airline pilot already. Most of the procedures are totally different than from the 172 and when we took of.. man.. it was beautiful. This is one of the oldest airplanes of the school's fleet; now I wonder what the 2000 models are like.
Up we were and the instructor introduced me into some maneuvers.. steep turns, slow flight, power off stall, power on stall, Vmc demostration, engine shutdown. The maneuvers are easy, the hard part is learning the flows. I was not familiar with the Prop Lever since this was my first time in a complex airplane as well, so It took me a while to get used to retarding the throttle to adjust MP and the Prop for RPM. Above that, there are different settings after climb, cruise, and descent.
We did one landing at Gainesville, but I asked the instructor that we should go back to PDK since I started feeling a little bit dizzy after all the maneuvers. So we went back, I logged my first 2.1 hours in a Multi Engine, and tomorrow we are not really sure what are we going to do. My instructor is trying to get in touch with the examiner so I can have my checkride on tuesday, if he is available, then we will do more flying tomorrow.
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