Originally Posted by
Chavey0201
Does anyone else notice significant reduction in capacity/confidence when flying solo if not having done so for some time?
Yeah, I'm noticeably worse after four weeks than three.
Maybe some instructors might like to answer this: When I have some sort of check ride, I tend to go through a list at some point of the things I've screwed up. Now, I'm not doing this in case the instructor didn't notice, because I'm sure he noticed everything I got wrong, didn't he, but so that
(1) he knows that I know what I got wrong, and
(2) he can tell me of anything else I got wrong that I didn't spot for myself.
Normally I get some variation on "yeah, well, that was OK after x weeks off, you're fine to fly solo now". Is this because I didn't miss any of my mistakes, or because the instructor reckons that my residual error rate is reasonable and safe for a low hours PPL?