{"id":513,"date":"2016-06-30T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:36:14","slug":"lesson-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

An easy way to describe my lesson today: “I was having an off day.” My flares were terrible. Each touchdown seemed rougher than any before. And my CFI kept reminding me of the exact same things on each turn around the pattern. For some reason I could not improve from touch-and-go to touch-and-go like I have been able to in the past.<\/p>\n

I was presented with a slight crosswind out of the northeast for the majority of\u00a0the lesson. While I have flown in wind stronger than this, my ability to provide the right amount of control to compensate for the wind was not there. I would overcorrect or not correct enough during the last 100 feet bringing us down for many flat landings and even a bounce or two.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we’re going to try it again. Hopefully I can compartmentalize today’s lesson and not let it affect how I feel arriving at the airport in the morning. I do have some takeaways from my lesson today:<\/p>\n

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  1. When there is a crosswind and a touch-and-go is performed, reorient the controls back into the wind once on the go. My instructor needed to remind me of this every single time today.<\/li>\n
  2. Make small corrections on approach and wait out the result. If I find myself left or right of centerline, apply a small amount of aileron in the needed direction and let the plane gradually work its way over.<\/li>\n
  3. On takeoff roll, reduce the control into the wind as rotation speed grows closer. At the point of rotation, there shouldn’t be zero control into the wind, but it should be much less than at the start of takeoff roll.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Happy last day of June ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    An easy way to describe my lesson today: “I was having an off day.” My flares were terrible. Each touchdown seemed rougher than any before. And my CFI kept reminding me of the exact same things on each turn around the pattern. For some reason I could not improve from touch-and-go to touch-and-go like I […]<\/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\/513"}],"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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.brockshetley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}