PLAN YOUR PRACTICE SOLOS

America is out to win a war thousands of airplanes line our runways waiting for you to fly them students tens of thousands of you must be carefully trained constant instruction countless hours of flying time and not a moment of it can be wasted there's a tremendous job ahead of you and time is a vital ele we'll show you what we mean by the story of 100 Cadets [Music] here's two of those Cadets Smith and Jones they know what's ahead of them before they become skill Pilots they wouldn't intentionally waste a minute of their practice solo time what's this a knucklehead poster just like knucklehead reading a book on a practice Sol but don't worry about Smith and Jones they're not going to waste their solo hours because they know what it means when training is over and they finally get to the real thing Cadet Smith is going up to do stalls today he's been told by his instructor that he needs practice in this maneuver let's follow Smith in his good intentions as he takes off and see what he does with his hour after making a straight climb to 5,000 fet he practices going in and out of stalls for some time having this maneuver pretty well in hand he decides to try something else he power Dives to the 2500t level suddenly he discovers that there are only 10 minutes left Smith is very pleased with himself as you can see being 15 mil from the air drone he heads for home blissfully unaware that he's wasted any of his solo hour but let's analyze Cadet Smith's Maneuvers to see if if he has used his hour to the best Advantage he started out with a steady climb to 5,000 ft this time should have been used to practice shandell's instead of straight climbing then too after he executed the Stalls The Descent could have been made by gliding turns instead of a power dive there will be plenty of power Dives for him later on and gliding turns require practice Smith's final error was that he ended his practice too far from the air drone he got in a lot of straight and level flying but that could have been done on regular navigation flights now let's go back to Cadet Jones to see what he did with his practice hour he had been told to practice climbing and gliding turns and lazy eights so he went straight up to 4,000 ft and practiced his clim and gliding turns after about 20 minutes of these Maneuvers he felt that their performance had been smoothed out he took his airplane up to 5,000 ft where he practiced lazy APS then gliding to the 2,000t level and finding his hour almost gone he contacted the Airdrome for landing instructions he headed for home confident that none of his time had been wasted in analyzing his Maneuvers we noticed that Cadet Jones made a direct climb to 4,000 ft during that climb he should have been practicing climbing turns it's true he wasted no time when he got up there he practiced the needed climbing and gliding turns and then went up to 5,000 ft where he followed through with a number of lazy eights however he finished by a straight Glide down when he should have taken the opportunity to get some more practice in gliding turns time was wasted and time is valuable now how could Cadet Smith and Jones have used their solo practice tows to better advantage one way is to divide the sky into altitudes and then associate certain Maneuvers with each section up to 800 ft traffic pattern work in pylon 8 at 1,000 ft normal Banks and turns from 2,000 to 3,000 ft steep turns from one 1,000 to 4,000 ft climbing and gliding turns from 3,000 to 4,000 ft shandell's and lazy eights at 5,000 ft stalls and 5,000 or above acrobatics keeping this pattern in mind let's try a practical demonstration of it you will spend the first three minutes climbing and leaving the traffic pattern then the first practice maneuver climbing turns of 90 and 180° at the end of 8 minutes you reach an altitude of 3,000 ft where you level off you're now in good position for practice of me Med and steep turns and coordination exercises with 10 minutes of this you've used up 18 minutes of your hour then instead of wasting time get up to 5,000 ft by the use of shandells and to avoid being a one-sided pilot roll in and out of them for about 12 minutes having now reached an altitude of 5,000 ft roll into the first of your lazy eights at the end of 10 more minutes you're in an ideal position to begin practicing stalls after spending 12 minutes practicing stalls and noting that there are only 8 minutes left you decide to go down but instead of diving to lose altitude descend in a series of gliding turns and with 4 minutes to go there is plenty of time to enter the traffic pattern make the 90° approach and land you've not been more than 5 miles away from the air drone valuable time has not been wasted in pointless flying this schedule shows what could be accomplished in an hour here's another way for a Cadet to get the most do of an hour when he wants to concentrate on two or three Maneuvers after the first 5 minutes he spends 20 minutes in chandel's on reaching 5,000 ft he spends 15 minutes practicing lazy eights and stalls then instead of diving The Descent is made by gliding turns which fills in the hour so virtually every minute is spent in useful practice in the same way you should plan an hour program of solo Landings at auxiliary Fields you spend the first 5 minutes in taking off and climbing to 800 ft after 5 to 8 minutes of coordination exercises you arrive at the auxiliary field and are ready for the first accuracy Landing there noting the amount of time there is available make six or seven practice Landings at the auxiliary field then start back for the air Drome practicing coordination exercises on the way in about 10 minutes or so you land to complete a full hour of practice Landings you should also follow a logical series of Maneuvers in practicing acrobatics 10 minutes after the takeoff you should have reached an altitude of 5,000 ft by making climbing turns in shandell's after doing the first maneuver a loop you execute a slow roll then after gting gain more altitude with an emlan do a snap roll the airplane should be slowed up for this as it must never be performed at excessive speed the snap roll is followed by a vertical revers after you use another imman to gain altitude do the last maneuver in the series which is the half roll in reverse let's review what you've just accomplished first the loop followed by a slow roll the imman the snap roll the vertical revers M another emman and the half roll and reverse there is time in an hour's practice to go through this procedure twice then to come down lose the first 2,000 ft by the practice of power off stalls lose the rest of the altitude by making gliding turns until the traffic pattern is entered and the approach made thus you can go through a logical series of acrobatic maneuvers completing the routine twice in an hour's time every one of you has an unparalleled opportunity to learn the art of flying right now you won't have the same chance when you reach the advanc stage in your training none of this valuable time should be wasted every solo practice hour should be used to the Limit and not one of its 60 Minutes lost la