This time we are doing stalling, which is a continuation of the slow flight from last time. We briefed for two different types of stall, power off and power on.

This time I was sent out to the aircraft to do a full walk around on my own. I started at the pilots side door turning the master switch on, checking the lights all work and lowering flaps before turning the electrics off again. Then I went round and checked various bits, including testing the fuel for water, oil levels and that there were no bits missing. As I was finishing the inspection the instructor came over and we got strapped in.

Today the weather was very windy, gusting up to 30 knots. On the taxi out I could feel the wind trying to blow the aircraft around like a giant weather vane. We were dodging between clouds at one point, trying to stay in sight of the ground. I could see large clouds and rain approaching from the West. As we joined back into the circuit it was starting to get quite cloudy and was very bumpy.

Done 7 hours now!