Very pleased to say that the last lesson went much better despite the fact that it was so windy. Regarding the reading up before a lesson I always spend too long reading up and trying to visualise what I have to do. The happier I feel the better it seems to go which doesnt make it easy. Thanks for all your advice - I am going to do 20 lessons and then decide to continue or give up. At the very least I want to be able to land the plane and I suspecty that once I have managed to land with an instructor sitting next to me I will be hooked.