DAY2
Another great day. Spent this morning practicing slow flight and more power on stalls with recovery. It was a little cotton ball cloudy, so we took about an hour vectoring through some clouds getting happy with the instruments/trusting them. I guess I've done that enough on sim to understand the general idea, but until you actually get into them you don't realize that you need to use the instruments and not trust your inner gyro!
Then onto the landings! Only got in three before a full stop for lunch. After lunch it was a traffic pattern/touch and go bonanza! Climb out, enter the pattern on crosswind, turn downwind, call tower midfield downwind, turn base, final, land takeoff; repeat 20 times!
I'm having a bit of difficulty getting comfortable with bleeding off speed before touchdown. Lining up, even for a bit of crosswind feels pretty natural. But once I get close enough I never want to really kill the throttle - that causes me to be a little hot, and I need to slow down so I'll stall out just right on touchdown. I'm sure this stuff comes naturally after a while. Right now I'm looking forward to coming in at that perfect speed and greasing it! (someday
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Thanks for reading!