Visiting Stadtlohn-Vreden Airport for an entire week with Vliegclub Rotterdam. Goal for day 1? Getting checked out on one of the Robins, so I may finally use my VCR membership!

(Moot to say I succeeded, otherwise I wouldn’t have to share this flight.)

The flight consisted of the following parts:

• Refuelling (not part of the checkout flight but one cannot fly without fuel, also spilled some, since it’s either drip by drip or hosing like a firetruck, great)
• Take-off and leaving the circuit 
• Steep turns over left and over right
• Two clean stalls with recovery without power (I felt the fluttering, hey linen wings)
• Emergency landing
• Three touch-and-goes
• One flapless landing (full stop)
• Some really difficult taxiing through grass (you should think I’m used to that by now, but apparently 200 kilograms more is quite a bit when battling an uphill grass patch)