Practice makes perfect?
Not so sure about that one. At least not entirely. Today I was flying solo, enforcing tons of bad habits. Just kidding. Started the flight with 5 approaches. Similarly to last lesson the wind was almost calm making all tries significantly harder. But this time I remembered Terry’s words – if you come up on base just a bit to high simply pitch it to 80 mph and let it go down idling. It will drop as soon as it can and you’ll be fine. At the beginning I was a little concerned seeing 800 fpm descent on final, but I used this technique anyway and it turns out that all of my landings were much, much better than last time.
After those five approaches I went to the practice area to train some s-turns, turns around the point and tracking road. There still was some wind up there so I had to constantly correct for it and you can see it on the track – it was far from being perfect. The only thing that looked kinda OK was the ground tracking. But that’s trivial if you see the road 
Then I returned to the Green Castle to finish the flight with another 5 landings. This time it went even better – had three greasers. Or at least I’ve heard that squeaking sound when tires contacted runway.
Next week we’ll start tying up loose ends with Terry to finish everything up before my long solos. Feels like the checkride is just around the corner!
P.S. This time I also remembered about switching gas tanks. I hope it will stay with me longer.
1.4h/0.0h inst : 10 to/ldg logged
40.8h/0.8h inst : 248 to/ldg total
