Redemption
It was a painful 5 day wait, but I finally got a chance to work some of the kinks out of my landings. The entire flight was spent in the pattern. Most of my focus was on slowing my airspeed on final to 70 mph then getting into the cushion of ground effect and staying there for the entire length of the runway. What I noticed with each pass is that I not only began to relax a bit, but by basically drawing out a landing for the full length of the runway, one could really feel out the subtlety in control adjustments. Normally the end of a landing feels like it is happening so quickly that my corrections end up being over-corrections that sometimes compound each other. Being patient really comes into play here. We ended up doing 7 or so passes, mostly staying in ground effect, but switching to runway 25 to deal with a crosswind as well. It ended up being a huge confidence booster and the most valuable exercise yet.
-IB
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