Just completed my third hour... another great time, despite starting to feel a bit groggy after an hour, I really look forward to my next lesson. Now completed the basics of turns, straight/level/climbing/descending. I'm not going to even mentioned the PAT APT thing as I "know" that has already been debated at length here. Suffice to say, we have a system that is efficient and doesn't stress the engine, or me!
After an hour my brain was starting to fog a bit due to fatigue (My anxiety just tires me out), so we skipped an overhead join, and rejoined downwind. I was really angry with myself for bottling it at the last minute, but I had enough beans left to fly the remainder of the pattern, and finals down to about 40 feet.
Really learnt a lot though, with checklists starting to stick in my mind, and did some RT (even taxied to fuel bay to fillerup). Instructor (not the same as first two flights due to holidays), assured me that my flying is fantastic for someone with just 3 hrs, which helped boost my confidence. I wobbled out of the plane and back to the briefing hut a happy, but very exhausted man.
Sorry to keep posting to this thread, but for anyone thinking of learning, then if I can do it despite agoraphobia and chronic fatigue, then anyone can... probably...
It's most bizare, but performing a dive at about Vne-20knotts didn't freak me out at all (those hedges really start getting big in the window!) - I was once again, more bothered about being out of my "patch" (agrophobia).
I'm really beginning to love pushing the aircraft this way and that, and it's starting to feel more natural. I'd love to plug my tutor/school as both instructors have been golden.
Let's see if I'm still smiling after steep turns and stalls/insipient spins
