Have to disagree with Whirly's comments about the 6K though.
On reflection, I disagree too!
being the driven, goal-directed kind of person I am, that's a hard nut to swallow.
To echo mad girl, "tell me about it". I've been there too, really. If you're the sort of person for whom things have come fairly easily, who's usually been successful, and whose usual reaction to difficulty is to grit your teeth and redouble your efforts, flying can come as a real shock, because that sort of effort doesn't work. I found it out, and with hindsight, it was a far more useful learning experience than all my previous successes. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a way to get that across to my high-achieving, driven students who are having similar problems, and finding that the battering-ram-technique doesn't work when it comes to flying, while chilling out does. Seems we all have to learn it for ourselves.
