Hi Maz, sorry to hear that your flying is being postponed - more time for you to concentrate on those exams
I had a really strange experience today. Waited several hours to get up in the circuit. Then my instructor said he'd ride one circuit with me - simply so he could check out the vis for a trial lesson he was about to do. Then he left me to it - said do about 45 minutes on my own - glides and any other circuit variations I wanted to practice.
So, off I went, quite happy that the vis was ok for circuits, though it was quite hazey.
Once circuit, fine. Second resulted in a go around - I was becoming tense. Third - I was even more tense and decided to land. Quite simply, while I was flying I had the horrible feeling that I was going to make a mistake - lose control of the situation/aircraft. The worse that feeling got, the more risk I thought there was of actually making a mistake - and so it went on. I was glad to land and taxi back to the apron.
This is the worst crisis of confidence I've had whilst flying solo and I couldn't really account for it. There was nothing I couldn't handle. The circuit was not particularly busy - just one in front of me.
So, has anyone else experienced this? Should I insist on more time with my instructor next lesson, or should I keep plugging away at the solo work? Maybe it was just a bad day.
The CFI suggested a touch of 'spacial disorientation' but I wouldn't want a repeat performance.
HH