Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Flying Lesson #31 - SSLDD

Flying Lesson 31 had a low cloud base providing a marginal VFR kinda day with the wind blowing 9-12 knots typically shifting somewhere from 250 - 300 degrees. On the upside it was warm and rather pleasant so more pattern work it was.

Can't say I did too good today. One landing of 13 was right on and the rest were again with not enough flare and landing pretty flat as usual. Approaches were a little low and not as stable as I or Sean would like.

Apparently I need to be more assertive and constantly show that I'm flying the airplane and it's not flying me. I happen to think I'm already doing that but I need to be more extroverted about it I guess. Yelling "Banzai" on landing is back on the table as an option. FMFL.

That's 1.4 more hours and 13 more landings.

2 comments:

juvat said...

Ahh, don't sweat the small stuff. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. (This coming from one of the few guys known to have bounced an F-4 on landing.)

Aaron said...

juvat: Thanks. I figure after getting over my disappointment that it was just a bad day and will keep at it. Apparently I'm pretty close but need to improve before moving on to the next phase.