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January 8, 2011 - Better! :)

The weather gods were smiling on me, and so I went flying again this afternoon.

Cross wind take-off (aileron left, into the wind, bit of right rudder, then turning gently back to neutral as I rotate at 50kts...)

HAHA!!!!  That sentence would have made NO sense to me whatsoever just six months ago, lol!!!  I must be learning something!!!!  :))))

Okay, and then, a bit of shitty navigation; reading (not so well) the various squiggles on the chart that are supposed to mean something.  Yikes!

And then, and then, STALLS, and plenty of them -- but getting better at managing mentally:  Instead of grabbing my instructor's arm this time, I closed my eyes.  And only did that twice, the rest of the time, I actually did recover fairly proficiently:  1. release pressure on the control column, 2. rudder to level the wings, 3. add power and ease out of the dive. retracting flaps in stages as necessary.

The only issue I have is knowing when to reduce rather than add full power.  I mean, I know in theory:  if the yaw is quite jarring, then you're supposed to reduce power and recover first before adding power.  But in real life... I mean, I guess here's the thing, I am so never going into a stall in real life anyway, lol!  This is such an exercise.  I am going to be such a conservative, lame-ass pilot.... which is really quite funny, considering I drive like a crazy lunatic with need for speed!!

As confirmation of my emerging genius, we were richly rewarded with God's palette in the sky ahead of us:  a delicate rainbow subtly blossoming out of a cloud of ice crystals... now there's something you don't get to see up close on the ground!!!

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