Much better

I flew much better today. I cleaned up everything in my gradebook, but I messed up the break entry to the pattern. We waited for an hour to fly, but eventually got a plane. It was going to be a 3-student sortie, but daylight left wouldn't allow for two contacts to go. My wingman got sent home, so I could catch up. He was one ride ahead of me. We flew the highwork, I took all the IP's techniques and advice to heart for this flight and it served me well. The stall, ditching, and engine cut all went fine. We headed back to the aux field and all the SSE stuff was within limits. In an effort to not get slow on SSE landings I was carrying a little extra power on touchdown, which we fixed as well. On the RTB I was didn't get the flaps and gear down quick enough so we were still high on downwind at the perch. I'll fix that tomorrow.

Flying is Hard Work, but Flying is Fun

I'm pretty tired after a full day. We're only flying once a day, but it's definitely tiring. I love it. I have so much to work on. The area work went well. Power on stalls, the stability demonstration, and ELP stalls were pretty straightforward. Might have been better to have stuck my foot in my mouth today in the pattern before I talked on the radio for all the IRTs I had, but I was able to read back all the vectors approach gave me on my recovery from the MOA. I forgot some confirmations in the pattern as well. Gotta quit that. Tomorrow after the Instruments 1 test and Instruments 102 I go to the aux field, Hacker for some more pattern work.