Lesson 7 is a review of all previous lessons, focusing mainly on airplane control and unusual attitudes.
Lesson 8, on the other hand, is completely new and focused on navigation, particularly VOR interception and tracking. The theory is easy, but in practice, the workload is pretty high, especially the first time when you need to use maps, mentally calculate parameters, and tune frequencies while keeping the airplane in control within allowed limits.
I’ve experienced a similar feeling at least twice during my PPL training, the first when starting to communicate in the aerodrome traffic pattern and the second during the first flight in a controlled airspace. On the ground, everything seems straightforward, but in the air, even minor additional tasks add significant workload since airplane control skills are not yet very strong and require a lot of mental resources.
Actually, instrument flying can be easier to some extent than visual flying since one village does not differ much from another, but radio aid frequency does. It’s also harder to get lost while flying by instruments. However, in Florida, even visual flying is not so difficult since there are plenty of highways and roads running from North to South and from West to East.
Today, I took the stage II check and got 85%, which I am not happy with, so I carefully reviewed my mistakes. By the way, I have a tricky question. Usually, SARL is less than DARL, but why is the warm and moist atmosphere more unstable than the dry one?
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