The lesson today was good, I guess. I now preflight on my own everytime. We got off from runway 24 and made a right turn from the departure leg.

We climbed higher today than usual and did some stall work. I performed a power on and a power off stall. Fatalities...0.

As we had earlier talked about emergencies in the air for a few minutes before the flight, Paul demonstrated a practice engine failure emergency. From 2000 feet, the mock engine failure led us gliding at glide speed (60 knots) searching for a "ditch spot." We found one of very many large fields in the very-near-to-immediate area arround the airport. Hypothetical thinking of clearing fences and trees and cows and we were hypothetically landing on the field infront of some poor Alachua County Resident.

Anyway, we climbed back to 2000' and passed it to continue to 3000'. Now we simulated an engine fire. This type of emergency would require an emergency descent. Woohoo!! We acquired a bank angle of about 60 degrees and essentially entered a controlled spin. A very fast negative vertical velocity was reached and I was freaked. I hadn't prepared myself for such an event.

So then we came back to the field and made some approaches. The first approach was a right-handed one and threw me off a little. The other two were both left-handed as I had to stay in the usual pattern.

I logged 1.3 hours today and I'll be soloing before I know it.