3 touch 'n' goes, a go around and a landing

I flew G-CETD again today. Flora and George came to the aerodrome (George shot some video of me taking off and landing). My eighth lesson was 4 circuits to the South landing on runway 26. I did three touch and goes (landing on then dropping to one stage of flap and a full power take off all in one) and on the final circuit landed to a stop and taxied back down the runway to carry out the post flight checks and park.

The weather was OK. These circuits are about me becoming increasingly aware of other traffic and flying the circuit properly whilst undertaking the correct checks. On the whole, I did OK but I'm still not trimming the descent well. Keith got me to concentrate on maintaining the airspeed at 70 knots with full flap on and controlling the airspeed with pitch better. My approaches were all good once I was trimmed correctly and my landings were variable (one good the rest a bit ropey).

We also flew one 'go around' (normal approach to landing but climbing out straight over the runway at full power to 1,000ft) because there was another aircraft lining up to take off. The flight was also noteworthy because there was quite a bit of traffic. At one point, I had to slot in behind one aircraft landing and another behind me with a separation of about 2 miles between us.

Keith has said it's more circuits next time and then we will go for my first landing at another aerodrome.

See brief video below of me landing at Elstree (filmed by George from the backseat on 15 February).