Sportys Stage 1, Lesson 5

Preparation

• Sporty's "additional study" items... There's a lot to read and several videos to view
• Emphasis will be on AFH ch 5 "maintaining aircraft control and recovery" (This is not to say the other topics are not important)

Discussion

Self study from previous ground lessons

Lesson objective and completion standards (from the Sporty's syllabus)

• Aerodynamics of stalls and spins
• Slow flight, definition and procedures
• Maneuvering during slow flight
• Stalls; impending vs full stall
• Fundamentals of stall recovery including how to correct roll
• Training for stalls at altitude to simulate landing pattern operations

pre-solo written questions:

• What aircraft certificates and documents must be on board for any flight?
• What are the flap speeds for the C172
• What are the definitions of Vso and Vs1 and what are the numbers for the 172?

Emergency procedure of the day

ENGINE FIRE DURING START

Conduct of the flight

• You'll do the radio comms for taxi and takeoff (see notes below) I'll handle all other radio comms
• You'll taxi, takeoff and fly the departure to the area.
• Enroute to the area, review the four fundamentals as we climb to 4500'
• You will fly a simulated traffic pattern (AFH page 8-2), at altitude, to include the use of flaps using these checkpoints...
• Downwind 90 KIAS 0 flaps
• Abeam reduce power to 1500, flaps 10 wait until 45 deg from end of runway
• Base leg 80 KIAS and set 20 flaps
• Final slow to 70 KIAS
• Landing assured set flaps 30 and slow to 65 KIAS
• I will demo one and then you fly each of... slow flight, power-off and power on stalls
• return to Nashua and fly a few landing patterns

Communications:

You'll start doing the radio comms on this flight. The Sporty's Study Guide and Video "Closer Look: Tower Controlled Field" has good information. Please review this before the flight.

Here is a script for the initial calls to ATC. It will help if you print a Nashua taxi diagram and have it in the airplane.

following the "who you are calling, who you are, where you are, what you want to do" format...

Call for taxi: "Nashua ground, Warrior 244ND, electrics, taxi, information _ (ATIS code goes here)" note the term "the electrics" refers to the ECAC ramp because it has electrical connections at each of the tie down spots.

Likely response: "244ND taxi to runway 32 via Delta and Alpha"

Readback: "4ND runway 32 via Delta and Alpha"

Call for takeoff: "Nashua tower, Warrior 244ND, runway 32, takeoff, depart to the west"

Likely response: Either "244ND cleared for takeoff and left turn westbound" or "244ND hold short"

Readback: if cleared for takeoff, it's sufficient to simply say your callsign, but I prefer to readback all of the tower instructions, so I'd say "4ND cleared for takeoff and left turn westbound." If tower tells you to "hold short" this is a mandatory readback. You must say your call sign and the words "hold short".

updated 4/22/2025