Hi all,
Sunfish - belated congratulations on going solo!
Interesting experiences with the flaps! Now I'm glad the PA28 has a nice simple lever - even if I do struggle to reach it!
I had a good lesson yesterday too. 0900 cloud base was about 500', but sat in the club lounge drinking coffee with students and instructors - interesting chat about the likelihood of surviving ditching in the channel - before the base had risen to 900' and began to break. Apparently it's quite difficult to get a liferaft out of a light plane once ditched - we concluded the best chance was an immersion suit.
Nice load of circuits, but with a different instructor from my usual one (who was doing far more exciting things with a X country student). Began to sort my landings. Interesting how, if you're just not quite getting something, flying with a different instructor for a lesson can help and they all seem to focus on different things. Sure I'll get solo soon???
Keep it up folks!
HH