Flight #23 2cd Solo @ Crp
Got to Mercury @ 7 AM ... wind was about dead ... planned to do some T&G's.
Ended up do about 5 or 6 low flyovers without landing or even touching .. wind picked up a little 5 to 10 kts out of 020 on Rwy 13 .. actually a tailwind. Guess I've never been in a tailwind situation .. that was in the back of my mind while do the low approaches.
On the low approaches I was slipping to hold the center .. that seemed to go ok .. the patterns were clean and radio work fine .. holding altitude at 1000' in the pattern no problem. Good rollouts on final .. alt good .. speed good ...
I kept pushing off a landing .. I just didn't want to try after last time .. thinking about a tailwind and increased groundspeed after touchdown.
After about 2 hours of doing low approaches I decided I was getting tired and decided to do fully stop.
Approach was fine .. lined up .. more a slip than a crab.
Speed might have been a tad high .. but not by much.
Began rollout and flare .. too high
To prevent a drop gave it some power .. not to go around .. but to soften the bounce ... didn't bounce .. left wing dipped ( I think ..seemed like a lot of bad shit happened in micro-seconds). At some point in the crazy chain I must have set down ... fast I'm sure.
Ended up on the extreme left side of runway .. again .. fighting to stay on the runway. I did but it was ugly ... I was ( and still am) very shook up.
Taxi'd back and left .. not feeling at all good about my prospects of ever becoming a confident / consistent pilot.
Its frustrating because I know what I'm suppose to do .. I know what each of the controls do .. but in the few seconds of roundount and flare my reactions must be wrong .. somewhere .. and I'll be damned if I can point to what I did wrong.
Even more frustrating is the fact that I solo'd with Tim .... did 3 good landing by myself .. did two more with Tim at Crp .. both good after that .. but now it seems like I've forgotten how to flare. Somehow I know how to land for my solo .. and now I don't ... I can't tell you what's different. In fact my solo at Alice was with a xwind ( headwind ) ... which I think would be even more challenging.
OK .. so its a question of confidence .. I think I'm freezing up in the roundout .. mind disengaged not thinking ... got to get my mojo back.
I hate the thought but I'm going to have to go back up with Tim and Tres and have them figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Ended up do about 5 or 6 low flyovers without landing or even touching .. wind picked up a little 5 to 10 kts out of 020 on Rwy 13 .. actually a tailwind. Guess I've never been in a tailwind situation .. that was in the back of my mind while do the low approaches.
On the low approaches I was slipping to hold the center .. that seemed to go ok .. the patterns were clean and radio work fine .. holding altitude at 1000' in the pattern no problem. Good rollouts on final .. alt good .. speed good ...
I kept pushing off a landing .. I just didn't want to try after last time .. thinking about a tailwind and increased groundspeed after touchdown.
After about 2 hours of doing low approaches I decided I was getting tired and decided to do fully stop.
Approach was fine .. lined up .. more a slip than a crab.
Speed might have been a tad high .. but not by much.
Began rollout and flare .. too high
To prevent a drop gave it some power .. not to go around .. but to soften the bounce ... didn't bounce .. left wing dipped ( I think ..seemed like a lot of bad shit happened in micro-seconds). At some point in the crazy chain I must have set down ... fast I'm sure.
Ended up on the extreme left side of runway .. again .. fighting to stay on the runway. I did but it was ugly ... I was ( and still am) very shook up.
Taxi'd back and left .. not feeling at all good about my prospects of ever becoming a confident / consistent pilot.
Its frustrating because I know what I'm suppose to do .. I know what each of the controls do .. but in the few seconds of roundount and flare my reactions must be wrong .. somewhere .. and I'll be damned if I can point to what I did wrong.
Even more frustrating is the fact that I solo'd with Tim .... did 3 good landing by myself .. did two more with Tim at Crp .. both good after that .. but now it seems like I've forgotten how to flare. Somehow I know how to land for my solo .. and now I don't ... I can't tell you what's different. In fact my solo at Alice was with a xwind ( headwind ) ... which I think would be even more challenging.
OK .. so its a question of confidence .. I think I'm freezing up in the roundout .. mind disengaged not thinking ... got to get my mojo back.
I hate the thought but I'm going to have to go back up with Tim and Tres and have them figure out what I'm doing wrong.
posted by gary mize at 8:01 AM
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