For the seventh lesson, we practiced more pattern work. Number one goal for today’s lesson: don’t nose over when landing.<\/p>\n
This goal is a carryover from errors in my\u00a0previous lesson. And the extra thought an attention I put into not pushing the nose down payed off\u2014my CFI was pleased and my landings began to improve. I have also been contentiously trying to relax my grip on the controls ever since I was threatened with having to hold an egg between my palm and the yoke. It seems to be working and I feel that the aircraft provides much better feedback when I am looser on the controls and not white-knuckling during landing.<\/p>\n
A mistake I continually made during our several landings today was applying back pressure too swiftly while still flying in ground effect. As a\u00a0result, I ballooned…every time. Just like I had to be intentional about not nosing the aircraft over during the flare, I am going to need to be intentional about making very minute changes to the controls when in the final stage of landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the seventh lesson, we practiced more pattern work. Number one goal for today’s lesson: don’t nose over when landing. This goal is a carryover from errors in my\u00a0previous lesson. And the extra thought an attention I put into not pushing the nose down payed off\u2014my CFI was pleased and my landings began to improve. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}