Right now, I'm feeling very low about my flying abilities. I spent an hour in the circuits yesterday, with 5 "T & G's". Now I'm pretty happy with just about everything EXCEPT for my landings. Admittedly I have yet to land with anything other than a "chuffin'" crosswind, but it was not that bad yesterday (10/12 knots from an angle of about 40 degrees). Everything is fine on the take off and the circuit etc - approach, speed control and so on is fine, but then it goes wrong!! At first, I was flaring too soon, so I tried very hard to leave it later, looking towards the end of the runway rather than in front of the aircraft, but this resulted in a hefty bang for the overabused oleos (!), and a good bounce. It got slightly better later, but I am struggling with the combined use of rudder and aileron to correct the drift before the flare - it just is not happening naturally at at present!!
Now, as a previous Rally Champion, I can happily chat away to passengers whilst sideways in a forest, or on a frozen Scandinavian lake at high speeds - it all just happens without my thinking about it (not sure what they are thinking though!!), so my coordination is not too bad, even though I'm in my sixth decade, but I simply am struggling to get the landing coordination over the last 50'. My instructor tells me it often happens, and that once mastered it will not be a problem again, but I am seriously pissed off at my inabilities at the moment. I've now done 16 hours, and this is the one area that I having problems with.
Hopefully, with a double lesson booked both Wednesday and Thursday next week, I'll be able to crack it (not like that!!)
Good luck to each of you, hopefully we'll have some better weather soon!