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Old 9th Sep 2021, 18:51
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Consistency is tricky

i’ve only got 500 hours under my belt although almost all of my flying is on the same type (C150), and most landings to the same strip.

So I ought to be reasonably consistent

but one day the wind is 110/15 the next it’s
80/05. Sometimes it gusts.

sometimes I have a passenger, oftentimes I don’t

sometimes I’m coming in with 20% fuel, sometimes 80%

sometimes the grass is wetter/softer than others.

sometimes I land perfectly sometimes I don’t (and beat myself up about it). Luckily so far I’ve walked away from every landing and been able to fly the plane again

and the hardest thing is that occasionally I find myself making lengthy XC flights, sometimes IFR. So you get to the end of a three hour stint, lowish on fuel, mentally challenged by the navigation and instrument flying, needing a pee and you still have to do the most difficult thing of all…

Keep at it, one day it clicks. It doesn’t matter whether that is 10 hours or 40 hours so long as you get there
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