On the whole, my circuits were good (once I'd found Bentley Priory as a reference on the downwind leg). Quite a lot of crabbing to stay on line. My radio work was not great and I was rushing my downwind checks a little.
But ... my landings just weren't happening at all. Despite pretty good approaches, in every case I fluffed the late final line up and flare: 7 times out of 7! Dan was just shaking his head. He said I was panicking but I didn't and still don't think that - I was just f*&^ing it up! When we (he) finally landed, we had a good talk about what is going wrong. He reckons that I am pulling the nose up too early with the consequent drop in lift and almost stalling in. I'm also drifting left just at the last moment which i just don't get (it was v windy though). Back to the text book and more practice .... sigh ... who said flying was easy... :(
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