Last Wednesday I only had ground school due to poor weather. We discussed failures and I got a chance to practice some simulated ones instead.

There was a decent crosswind so we flew up to Sauk Prairie again to use their N/S runway. It had been over a week since my last landing so I was [...]

Did 8 more landings today. Started off with no wind so should have been easy, but it’s amazing what a few days out of the plane does to my skills. After a couple of not-very good ones I started to get better, but was still doing three-pointers. Mike finally talked me through a flare and [...]

It’s been over a week since my last lesson and I had to re-learn some stuff. Landings today were a bit complicated by some wind. There was a descent crosswind coming from the south so Mike took off and we flew to a nearby small airstrip with a N.S. runway. Several trips through the pattern [...]

Today we spent over an hour in the air just practicing the pattern, including takeoffs and landings each time around. After Mike showed me the first full circuit, I ended up doing four landings and one go-around.

My actual landings still need some work, although one was pretty smooth. Fortunately, I didn’t even come close to [...]

Today was more stall practice. It’s been almost a week since my last lesson and I was a bit rusty on remembering some of the details. Don’t forget about that rudder!

We started out with some power off and power on stalls and then progressed into secondary stalls (pretty easy), trim stalls, and a cross-control stall. [...]