Rudder Hell...
Dear Marge,
Last weekend I finally got myself back into the air after a year's absence. I spent three glorious days hacking around the Headcorn circuit in the front seat of a nice yellow thing with the wheel at t'other end.
All in all I did 'ok', I suppose, although it'll take more than a long weekend to knock twelve months of rust off my flying skills.
The thing that drove me nuts is that I seem to have lost what paltry rudder coordination skills that I did have before the lay-off. The sodding ball moved around so much that I thought Wimbledon had come early: Quick glance at the T&S (Way, way off), rudder input (Back to the centre), look outside, scan of the other instruments, back to the T&S (Bugger, gone again). This used to be (reasonably) automatic!
What's happened to me? Any ideas on how I can get myself back into balance?
Signed:
Worried, of Zürich.