More landings, but better now

The weather sucked again, so we had to stay in the pattern. Richard showed up as I was midway through my preflight, and said he had a conflict with another student. Unsure as to why it was ME that should get bumped, I BEGGED to go up. He pushed the other student back an hour, and up we went.

More of the same, basically. Just the landings need work – everything else is habit and procedure. My first two landings were not pretty – for two reasons. First, because I was pulling my old tricks and coming in too low and “driving it in” with power. It seems to me that there is just no way to make a real nice landing doing this, not to mention it is unsafe. If your engine should fail in that situation, you wouldn’t make the field. Second was the crosswind. I just simply wasn’t side slipping all the way to the flare, and ended up landing WAY left of the centerline. Once those things were fixed, it was MUCH easier. The last touch and go I did in fact was pretty close to perfect. Just barely left of centerline, but the smoothest touchdown I think is even possible. You could just BARELY tell we had touched down. Nice.

1.1 hours/26.3 total